iPhone: How do I add layers to UIView's root layer to display an image with the content property?

Question

According to the Mac Dev Center docs, you should be able to set the contents property of a CALayer and have that render automatically. However, I still can\'t get a simple image

Answer 1

You could load the image into a UIImageView, which is decended from UIView and therefore has it's own layer property.

UIImageView *imgView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
imgView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"mypic.png"];

[[[self view] layer] addSublayer:[imgView layer]];
[imgView release];