UITableView background Image

Question

I'am trying to setup a png image as my tableview's background. With the following code all are fine! But only on iPhone Simulator. If I try to run the application on an iPhone device the background of tableview remains white (or clear). Do you thing thing that is something about the way I tried to set the background color. I have been trying many ways until the following, but all have the same issue.

self.tableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
self.tableView.opaque = NO;
self.tableView.backgroundView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"TableViewBackground.png"]];

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

 UIImageView *tempImageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"TableViewBackground.png"]];
[tempImageView setFrame:self.tableView.frame]; 

self.tableView.backgroundView = tempImageView;
 [tempImageView release];

This works perfect. Thanks to Ravin by Jona

Answer 2

This works perfectly fine, also if you want to use a pattern image for your background.

UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"something.png"];
self.tableView.backgroundView = nil;
self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:image];

Answer 3

Please use following code.

UIImageView *tempImageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"TableViewBackground.png"]];
[tempImageView setFrame:self.tableView.frame]; 

self.tableView.backgroundView = tempImageView;
[tempImageView release];

Thanks,

Answer 4

Simple swift version will be

let tempImageView = UIImageView(image: UIImage(named: "yourImage"))
tempImageView.frame = self.tableView.frame
self.tableView.backgroundView = tempImageView;

Answer 5

An IBDesignable tableview subclass that will let you attach an image from interface builder

import UIKit

@IBDesignable
class DesignableTableView: UITableView {

    @IBInspectable var backgroundImage: UIImage? {
        didSet {
            if let image = backgroundImage {
                let backgroundImage = UIImageView(image: image)
                backgroundImage.contentMode = UIViewContentMode.ScaleToFill 
                backgroundImage.clipsToBounds = false
                self.backgroundView = backgroundImage
            }
        }
    }

}