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@empglabs/react-native-user-avatar
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React Native component for a user avatar with fallback to colored initials
A bare-bones user avatar display with support for falling back to using the user's initials on a colored background as the avatar. Based on the great library for React: https://github.com/wbinnssmith/react-user-avatar, and ported to React Native.
| iOS Screenshot | Android Screenshot | 
|---|---|
|  |  | 
npm install --save react-native-user-avatar or yarn add react-native-user-avatar
The fallback avatar's color may be set by passing in the bgColor prop, or you can customize the range of colors
used by passing in an array of bgColors. The component uses a simple calculation to consistently use the same
color for the same user's name every time.
import UserAvatar from 'react-native-user-avatar';
const App: () => React$Node = () => {
  return (
    <>
    ...
    <View>
      <UserAvatar size={100} name="Avishay Bar" />
      <UserAvatar size={100} name="Avishay Bar" src="https://dummyimage.com/100x100/000/fff" />
      <UserAvatar size={50} name="John Doe" bgColors={['#ccc', '#fafafa', '#ccaabb']}/>
      <UserAvatar size={50} name="John Doe" />
      <UserAvatar size={50} name="Jane Doe" bgColor="#000" />
    </View>
    ...
| Attribute | Type | Default Value | Description | 
|---|---|---|---|
| name | string | 'John Doe' | name used for generating initials | 
| src | string | undefined | source image on the internet to display | 
| bgColor | string | undefined | custom background color for the initials | 
| bgColors | array | see index.js | custom array of background colors to choose from | 
| textColor | string | '#fff' | custom text color for the initials font | 
| size | number | 32 | custom size that defines both the avatar and the initials font size | 
| imageStyle | object | undefined | custom image styling to append to the Imagecomponent displays the source image | 
| textStyle | object | undefined | custom text styling to append to the Textcomponent that displays initials | 
| style | object | undefined | custom style to append to the UserAvatarcomponent container | 
| borderRadius | number | size * 0.5 | custom border radius for the component | 
| component | React.Component | undefined | custom component to display instead of initials or source image | 
Contributions are welcome. Please see CONTRIBUTING.md if you like to contribute to this library.
@wbinnssmith for creating https://github.com/wbinnssmith/react-user-avatar
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React Native component for a user avatar with fallback to colored initials
We found that @empglabs/react-native-user-avatar demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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