Generate and configure avatars based off of the hash of any arbitrary string content.

This functionality is inspired by Github's identicons but uses a different algorithm so will not result in identical outputs.

NOTE: The algorithm of this package may change over time to improve generated image quality, so there is no guarantee of stability of generated images between versions. We will consider this a semver break, so if image generation changes without any action by the user, we would for example upgrade the version from 0.1.0 -> 0.2.0 or 1.0.0 -> 2.0.0. We are always open to suggestions about how to improve the algorithm and/or image quality so please reach out if you have any suggestions!

Usage

A simple usage example generating an avatar based off the string parlough and storing it as a PNG image on the file system.

import 'dart:io';

import 'package:blockify/blockify.dart';
import 'package:image/image.dart';

/// This example generates a rendered icon using most of the default parameter
/// values but setting the background as transparent. Then it proceeds to
/// encode the result as a PNG with the `image` package, and proceeds to store
/// the encoded PNG in a file named `parlough.png`.
void main() {
  const content = 'parlough';

  // Render the image with a transparent background
  final image = render(content: content, backgroundColor: 0);

  // Encode the image as a PNG image with the `image` package
  final encoded = encodePng(image);

  // Create a new file with the `dart:io` library
  final file = File('$content.png');

  // Finally write out the encoded PNG to the newly created file
  file.writeAsBytesSync(encoded);
}

Generated image:

Features and bugs

Please file feature requests and bugs in the issue tracker.