Is there an way to make an invisible UIButton that will still “be there” and catch touch events for my UIImageView?

Question

I thought to be clever and just put an transparent UIButton over an UIImageView with the exact frame size, so that I can wire it up easily with any event I like, for example

Answer 1

The best way of doing this is:

myButton.hidden = YES;

You can't use the buttonType property because it is a read only property. Only way to use it is when creating your button dynamically.