Tiled Background Image: Can I do that easily with UIImageView?

Question

I have a fullscreen background image that is tiled, i.e. it has to be reproduced a few times horizontally and vertically in order to make a big one. Like in the browsers on

Answer 1

I use a variation of @Rivera's solution:

Put the following in a UIView extension:

- (void)setColorPattern:(NSString *)imageName
{
    [self setBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:imageName]]];
}

Then you can set the background pattern in the storyboard/xib file: