How to keep a round imageView round using auto layout?

Question

How do I turn a rectangular image view into a circular image view that can hold shape in auto layout without setting width and height restraints? Thereby allowing the imageV

Answer 1

I am quite new to iOS native development, but I had the same problem and found a solution.

So the green background has this constraints:

backgroundView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
backgroundView.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: superview!.safeAreaLayoutGuide.topAnchor).isActive = true
backgroundView.leftAnchor.constraint(equalTo: superview!.leftAnchor).isActive = true
backgroundView.widthAnchor.constraint(equalTo: superview!.widthAnchor).isActive = true
backgroundView.heightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: superview!.heightAnchor, multiplier: 0.2).isActive = true

The image constraints:

avatar.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
avatar.heightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: backgroundView.heightAnchor, multiplier: 0.8).isActive = true
avatar.widthAnchor.constraint(equalTo: backgroundView.heightAnchor, multiplier: 0.8).isActive = true
avatar.centerYAnchor.constraint(equalTo: backgroundView.centerYAnchor, constant: 0).isActive = true
avatar.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: backgroundView.leadingAnchor, constant: 20).isActive = true

on viewWillLayoutSubviews() method I set the corner radius to

avatar.layer.cornerRadius = (self.frame.height * 0.2 * 0.8) / 2

Basically, I am simply calculating the height of the image and then divide it by 2. 0.2 is the backgroungView height constraint multiplier and 0.8 the image width/height constraint multiplier.