iPhone toggle button implementation

Question

I would like to create a toggle button in my iPhone application. However, I don't know exactly what would be the best approach for this.

I am considering two options.

I could subclass an UIButton. That way I do not have to implement touch handling. I could just create a method that returns a boolean indicating whether the button is in on or off state.

I could also start with an UIView subclass and create it from scratch. I suppose it would be easier to do things like a transition animation, but I would have to create my own touch handling.

What do you think is the best one? Or would you know a better way? (Maybe there is an open-source/free view available on the web?)

EDIT: I don't want to use the UISwitch because I want my toggle button to look like that. I want it to be a big rectangular button and make the background change to indicate the state.

Thanks!

Answer 1

-(IBAction)toggle{
    if (button.selected == NO) {
        button.selected = YES;

    }
    else {
        button.selected = NO;
    }
}

or

-(IBAction)toggle:(UIButton*)sender
{
sender.selected = !sender.selected;
}

simple dude

Answer 2

You can use UIButton and set its enabled property.

In Interface Builder, you can set separate images for the enabled and disabled states, and the IBAction change the property.