How can I set a button background color on iPhone?

Question

How can I set a custom background color of a button?

Interface Builder doesn\'t seem to have an interface to do this.

Is it only available programmatically

Answer 1

Tim James' solution (a single-segment segmented control) worked for me when I wanted a simple 'Save' button with a decent blue gradient background. I simply created a 2 segment control in the nib, set up the first segment as I wanted it and then programatically removed the second segment under -viewWillAppear using [mySegmentedControl removeSegmentAtIndex:1 animated:NO]. For my purposes 'Momentary' needed to be active (ticked) for the Segmented Control's first segment in the nib and 'Selected' was not active for either segment. 'Value Changed' is the Segmented Control's Action to connect up.