How to embed small icon in UILabel

Question

I need to embed small icons ( sort of custom bullets ) to my UILabel in iOS7. How can I do this in interface designer? Or at least in code?

In Android there are leftDrawable and rightDrawable for labels, but how it is done in iOS? Sample in android :

Answer 1

Your reference image looks like a button. Try (can also be done in Interface Builder):

UIButton* button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
[button setFrame:CGRectMake(50, 50, 100, 44)];
[button setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"img"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[button setImageEdgeInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, -30, 0, 0)];
[button setTitle:@"Abc" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[button setTitleColor:[UIColor blackColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[button setBackgroundColor:[UIColor yellowColor]];
[view addSubview:button];

Answer 2

Swift 4 UIlabel Extension to add Image to Label with reference to above answers

extension UILabel {
  func set(image: UIImage, with text: String) {
    let attachment = NSTextAttachment()
    attachment.image = image
    attachment.bounds = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 10, height: 10)
    let attachmentStr = NSAttributedString(attachment: attachment)

    let mutableAttributedString = NSMutableAttributedString()
    mutableAttributedString.append(attachmentStr)

    let textString = NSAttributedString(string: text, attributes: [.font: self.font])
    mutableAttributedString.append(textString)

    self.attributedText = mutableAttributedString
  }
}

Answer 3

Swift 2.0 version:

//Get image and set it's size
let image = UIImage(named: "imageNameWithHeart")
let newSize = CGSize(width: 10, height: 10)

//Resize image
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(newSize, false, 0.0)
image?.drawInRect(CGRectMake(0, 0, newSize.width, newSize.height))
let imageResized = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
UIGraphicsEndImageContext()

//Create attachment text with image
var attachment = NSTextAttachment()
attachment.image = imageResized
var attachmentString = NSAttributedString(attachment: attachment)
var myString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "I love swift ")
myString.appendAttributedString(attachmentString)
myLabel.attributedText = myString

Answer 4

Try dragging a UIView onto the screen in IB. From there you can drag a UIImageView and UILabel into the view you just created. Set the image of the UIImageView in the properties inspector as the custom bullet image (which you will have to add to your project by dragging it into the navigation pane) and you can write some text in the label.

Answer 5

You can do this with iOS 7's text attachments, which are part of TextKit. Some sample code:

NSTextAttachment *attachment = [[NSTextAttachment alloc] init];
attachment.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"MyIcon.png"];

NSAttributedString *attachmentString = [NSAttributedString attributedStringWithAttachment:attachment];

NSMutableAttributedString *myString= [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"My label text"];
[myString appendAttributedString:attachmentString];

myLabel.attributedText = myString;

Answer 6

Here is the way to embed icon in UILabel.

Also to Align the Icon use attachment.bounds

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Swift 4.2

//Create Attachment
let imageAttachment =  NSTextAttachment()
imageAttachment.image = UIImage(named:"iPhoneIcon")
//Set bound to reposition
let imageOffsetY:CGFloat = -5.0;
imageAttachment.bounds = CGRect(x: 0, y: imageOffsetY, width: imageAttachment.image!.size.width, height: imageAttachment.image!.size.height)
//Create string with attachment
let attachmentString = NSAttributedString(attachment: imageAttachment)
//Initialize mutable string
let completeText = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "")
//Add image to mutable string
completeText.append(attachmentString)
//Add your text to mutable string
let  textAfterIcon = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "Using attachment.bounds!")
completeText.append(textAfterIcon)
self.mobileLabel.textAlignment = .center;
self.mobileLabel.attributedText = completeText;

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Objective-C Version

 NSTextAttachment *imageAttachment = [[NSTextAttachment alloc] init];
imageAttachment.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"iPhoneIcon"];
CGFloat imageOffsetY = -5.0;
imageAttachment.bounds = CGRectMake(0, imageOffsetY, imageAttachment.image.size.width, imageAttachment.image.size.height);
NSAttributedString *attachmentString = [NSAttributedString attributedStringWithAttachment:imageAttachment];
NSMutableAttributedString *completeText= [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@""];
[completeText appendAttributedString:attachmentString];
NSMutableAttributedString *textAfterIcon= [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"Using attachment.bounds!"];
[completeText appendAttributedString:textAfterIcon];
self.mobileLabel.textAlignment=NSTextAlignmentRight;
self.mobileLabel.attributedText=completeText;