Drawing on images?

[plaetzchen]

Is there any best practice on how to draw on a user provided image using jot?

[HackShitUp]

Bump. I'm having a few issues with the drawing state as well. It appears as though the lines that are being drawn aren't entirely smooth...

[DavidLari]

It appears jot is no longer supported by IFTTT. The dev has apparently left the company and they intend to mark it deprecated.

[HackShitUp]

Damn that sucks. I'm going to have to remove this from Cocoapods. Does anyone know any similar frameworks?

[DavidLari]

I have been looking for one, but I'm specifically trying to find a Swift one. Not sure if there are some Objective C ones.

[HackShitUp]

@DavidLari Me too. On that note, would you be down to build one with me? I've been developing in Swift for about 2 years now, but I've never built a framework, and I think this would be a great opportunity for me to advance haha

[DavidLari]

Sure. I'll help.

[annjawn]

NXDrawKit is the closest one that is out there. Still supported by the Dev and works for iOS 11 and Swift 4.

[HackShitUp]

@DavidLari @annjawn @plaetzchen
When I was looking for alternative frameworks for JOT, I was looking for something that would enable users to overlay text on their images. But I couldn't find any at the time, so I went ahead and built my own. It's a UIView (with XIB) that has a UITextView as a subview. It overlays on the parent view as opposed to drawing an image over it for better management (I also have users overlay text on their videos). Here's the source code to them:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1sqvF3ywrF2xgPxuwkRsyLWAYzLVMTb8d

Note: You need to connect the following outlets in storyboard:

    @IBOutlet weak var textView: UITextView!

And to use it in your class, just drag and drop a UIView, declare that class as a subclass of CSCaptionview, and you'll be good to go. The UIView's UIGestureRecognizers are internally configured, and whenever you hit the return key in the UITextView, it adds it to the super view. Make sure to set the auto layout constraints in the UIViewController class that uses it.

I use it for my application here: http://www.capsule.li/download
Here's the direct URL to the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/capsule-preserving-memories/id1279632709?ls=1&mt=8

(Shameless advertising.)

[HackShitUp]

For some reason, the Google Drive URL doesn't work. Here's a redirect with the one that works:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zQSMYkSmRM9R2LXrMioXkU9S2oynTXrJ?usp=sharing

[annjawn]

Very cool. I might take the overlay Text part from your code. I am already using NXDrawKit in my app and I have customized it for my use and it's working well, but it's missing the text overlay feature. I am in the middle of my App's beta testing and I plan to release it before christmas but I think I will push this feature in the next update.

[HackShitUp]

@annjawn Cool cool, let me know when it's out!

[DavidLari]

I've got a library in beta called SwiftyJot. It doesn't have the text features of jot, but it has finger drawing. https://github.com/DavidLari/SwiftyJot

[HackShitUp]

@DavidLari is there a way to overlay the drawing on a regular uiview and not a uiimageview?

[DavidLari]

@HackShitUp The code as it currently stands, doesn't support that, but since I'm adding a layer to draw on anyway, it would be pretty easy to modify it to do that.