UIViewController background Image

Question

How do I set the background image of my UIViewController? What is the code to do it? Right now I have

self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"image.jpg"]];

but I don't want a pattern. I want it to fill the screen properly.

Thanks!

Answer 1

you could use:

UIImageView *backgroundImage = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"Blah.png"]];

[self.view addSubview:backgroundImage];
[self.view sendSubviewToBack:backgroundImage];

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Answer 2

To expand on Jesse Naugher's code: UIView (or UIViewController, for that matter), holds no built-in way of using an image for background. What you have to do is to use a UIImageView, which is a UIView subclass specifically for displaying images, and add that to the back of your view hierarchy.