Tiled Background Image: Can I do that easily with UIImageView?

Question

I have a fullscreen background image that is tiled, i.e. it has to be reproduced a few times horizontally and vertically in order to make a big one. Like in the browsers on ugly home pages ;)

Is UIImageView my friend for this?

Answer 1

If I understand your question correctly you can use colorWithPatternImage: on UIColor then set the background color on a UIView.

If you must use a UIImageView you can do the same but whatever image you place in the image view will draw in front of the tiled image.

Answer 2

To get alpha to work with pattern image, make sure you have the following set:

view.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:aImage]; view.layer.opaque = NO;