Setting Background image to a uiview

Question

i am setting my view's background as an image. for that using the following code. But the image seems to be getting stretched. How can i get the original image as it is?

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

What is the resolution for an image ? .It should be either 320*480 or 320 * 568 for 3.5 & 4 inch screen phone — poojathorat, Nov 26 '14 at 10:10
possible duplicate of [How to fill background image of an UIView](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8077740/how-to-fill-background-image-of-an-uiview) — n00bProgrammer, Nov 26 '14 at 10:18

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

This is not advisable to set UIView background colour (to set an image) like this, instead add an UIImageView as subview of UIView and then assign image it to it. This will be same look like you've setting a background.

However, here's the solution for this,

UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(self.view.frame.size);
[[UIImage imageNamed:@"image.png"] drawInRect:self.view.bounds];
UIImage *image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:image];

Straight from this answer

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 26 '14 at 10:08

UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(self.view.frame.size);
[[UIImage imageNamed:@"myImage.png"] drawInRect:self.view.bounds];
UIImage *image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:image];

Try this code.It worked for me.

Setting Background image to a uiview

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