How do you make a background image scale to screen size in swift?

Question

I\'m trying to make a UIView image for my background in swift using pattern image. The code I have works well except for the fact that I want the image to take the whole scr

Answer 1

This is the updated answer of my previous one.

As the same approach of my previous answer, You can create an extension of UIView and add addBackground() method to it, as follows:

Remember: if you are adding it in a new .swift file, remember to add import UIKit

extension UIView {
    func addBackground(imageName: String = "YOUR DEFAULT IMAGE NAME", contentMode: UIView.ContentMode = .scaleToFill) {
        // setup the UIImageView
        let backgroundImageView = UIImageView(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
        backgroundImageView.image = UIImage(named: imageName)
        backgroundImageView.contentMode = contentMode
        backgroundImageView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false

        addSubview(backgroundImageView)
        sendSubviewToBack(backgroundImageView)

        // adding NSLayoutConstraints
        let leadingConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: backgroundImageView, attribute: .leading, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: self, attribute: .leading, multiplier: 1.0, constant: 0.0)
        let trailingConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: backgroundImageView, attribute: .trailing, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: self, attribute: .trailing, multiplier: 1.0, constant: 0.0)
        let topConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: backgroundImageView, attribute: .top, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: self, attribute: .top, multiplier: 1.0, constant: 0.0)
        let bottomConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: backgroundImageView, attribute: .bottom, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: self, attribute: .bottom, multiplier: 1.0, constant: 0.0)

        NSLayoutConstraint.activate([leadingConstraint, trailingConstraint, topConstraint, bottomConstraint])
    }
}

Note that the updates for this answer are:

• Swift 4 code