iPhone : How to set BackgroundColor of UIButton with buttonType UIButtonTypeCustom

Question

i want to change the button color when it is clicked. I used :

[button setBackgroundColor:[UIColor redColor]];

but this shows red color onl

Answer 1

Make sure the button type is custom as someone else already stated. Then doing the following will bring back those rounded corners:

 [self.myButton.layer setCornerRadius:8.0f];
 [self.myButton.layer setMasksToBounds:YES];
 [self.myButton.layer setBorderWidth:1.0f];
 [self.myButton.layer setBorderColor:[[UIColor whiteColor] CGColor]];
 self.myButton.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];

Though, personally, I'm a big fan of gradient buttons over solid colors... also, background color doesn't have different states, whereas background images do:

 [self.myButton setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"gradient.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

Using an image, your button will darken with selection (or you could provide a different background image per state to do something different). This won't happen with background color, the background will always stay the same, only your button label changing per state.