Comments on: Add Background Image To UIView

By: John James

John James — Sun, 01 May 2011 14:00:26 +0000

Actually none of these work for more than the first view when trying to make a background for image selected from a table list.

By: Me

Me — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:21:36 +0000

How about:

self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"background.png"]];

By: memory leak

memory leak — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:08:32 +0000

You have a memory leak there. The correct code is:

UIColor *bkgColor = [[UIColor alloc] initWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"MyBackground.png"]];
self.view.backgroundColor = bkgColor;
[bkgColor release];

By: Abhijeet

Abhijeet — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:42:52 +0000

Both the code are same. In first one you are allocating color to background and and assigning it an image.

In second one again the same thing is happening. The only difference is some extra code. This will increase the allocations of objects when viewed in instruments.
there is no need to to first have a UIview as a separate object then assign it to the main view.

Simply extra piece of code.

Thanks.

By: Agha

Agha — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:38:03 +0000

Thanks for tip.
The able code will fail.
Here is the correct code.
UIView *contentView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame: [[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame]];
//contentView.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
//contentView.backgroundColor = [UIColor viewFlipsideBackgroundColor];
//contentView.backgroundColor = [UIColor groupTableViewBackgroundColor];
//contentView.backgroundColor = [[UIColor alloc] initWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"someimage.png"]];
self.view = contentView;

[contentView release];

Tnanks