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Using the Retro Avatar API in iPhone

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How to dwonload and use a Retro Avatar image in a iPhone App.
In this example: uid is a Facebook user id, optionally you can use any string, a name, a md5 hash of a email address and it is assumed you have an image view with tag id 1 you want to set the image for

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  1. NSString *name = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://retroavatar.appspot.com/api?name=%d&alpha=true&fact=2", uid];
  2. NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:name];
  3. NSData *data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:url];
  4. UIImage *img = [UIImage imageWithData:data];
  5. ((UIImageView *) [self.view viewWithTag:1]).image = img;

URL: http://retroavatar.appspot.com/

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