Iphone – Tiled Background Image: Can I do that easily with UIImageView

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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?

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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.

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Try this:

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You can achieve the same thing in IB by making the 'Background' a color with 0% opacity, and unticking the 'Opaque' checkbox.

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