react-native-boring-avatars

React Native implementation of boring avatars

Forked from https://github.com/luhart/react-native-boring-avatars.

Why Fork?

In the original library, there is heavy use of magic strings and hardcoded values. This caused heavy pixellation when trying to make avatars larger than their default values.

For an understanding of how this all works please see this blog post: https://mealection.com/blog/forking-react-native-boring-avatars

Couldn't we have made a Pull Request? Yes, but the original library seems to have stagnated a bit with no recent changes and serveral hanging Issues. We also wanted to impose our own code style and TypeScipt preferences.

Installation

yarn add @mealection/react-native-boring-avatars

Usage

// ...
import Avatar from 'react-native-boring-avatars';

<Avatar
  size={40}
  name="Sacagawea"
  variant="pixel"
  colors={['#92A1C6', '#146A7C', '#F0AB3D', '#C271B4', '#C20D90']}
/>;

Caveat

The marble variant is not suppported. This is because react-native-svg does not support the SVG filter attribute which the marble variant depends on. 🙁 Check here for more details on react-native-svg on this issue.

License

MIT