How do you make a background image scale to screen size in swift?

Question

I\'m trying to make a UIView image for my background in swift using pattern image. The code I have works well except for the fact that I want the image to take the whole scr

Answer 1

Just add your UIImageView positioned centered and with all edges snapping to the edges. Leave it there and click on the right bottom corner as shown below and now go ahead and add 4 constrains to Top, Bottom, Left and Right Edges.

Now just select your image view and using the IB inspector select how you would like your image: fill or fit as you can see as follow:

Answer 2

Here are your options for scaling!

For the .contentMode property:

ScaleToFill This will scale the image inside the image view to fill the entire boundaries of the image view.

ScaleAspectFit This will make sure the image inside the image view will have the right aspect ratio and fit inside the image view’s boundaries.

ScaleAspectFill This will make sure the image inside the image view will have the right aspect ratio and fill the entire boundaries of the image view. For this value to work properly, make sure that you have set the clipsToBounds property of the imageview to true.

class SecondViewController : UIViewController {

    let backgroundImage = UIImage(named: "centralPark")
    var imageView: UIImageView!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        self.thirdChoiceField.delegate = self
        self.datePicker.minimumDate = NSDate()
        imageView = UIImageView(frame: view.bounds)
        imageView.contentMode = .ScaleAspectFill
        imageView.clipsToBounds = true
        imageView.image = backgroundImage
        imageView.center = view.center
        view.addSubview(imageView)
        self.view.sendSubviewToBack(imageView)

Answer 3

For this, I think you'll need to create a UIImageView that is pinned to the parent views top / bottom / left / right. This will make the UIImageView always the match the size of the display. Just make sure you set the content mode on the imageview to be AspectFit

var newImgThumb : UIImageView
newImgThumb = UIImageView(view.bounds)
newImgThumb.contentMode = .ScaleAspectFit
view.addSubview(newImgThumb)

//Don't forget this line
newImgThumb.setTranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints(false)

NSDictionary *views =NSDictionaryOfVariableBindings(newImgThumb);


// imageview fills the width of its superview
[self.view addConstraints:[NSLayoutConstraint constraintsWithVisualFormat:@"|[newImgThumb]|" options:0 metrics:metrics views:views]];
// imageview fills the height of its superview
[self.view addConstraints:[NSLayoutConstraint constraintsWithVisualFormat:@"V:|[newImgThumb]|" options:0 metrics:metrics views:views]];

Answer 4

This uses PureLayout. You could just use AutoLayout with a few more lines.

UIImageView* imgView = UIImageView(image: myUIImage)
imgView.setTranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints(false)
self.view.addSubview(imgView)
self.view.addConstraints(imgView.autoPinEdgesToSuperviewEdgesWithInsets(UIEdgeInsetsMake(0,0,0,0))

Answer 5

This is the updated answer of my previous one.

As the same approach of my previous answer, You can create an extension of UIView and add addBackground() method to it, as follows:

Remember: if you are adding it in a new .swift file, remember to add import UIKit

extension UIView {
    func addBackground(imageName: String = "YOUR DEFAULT IMAGE NAME", contentMode: UIView.ContentMode = .scaleToFill) {
        // setup the UIImageView
        let backgroundImageView = UIImageView(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
        backgroundImageView.image = UIImage(named: imageName)
        backgroundImageView.contentMode = contentMode
        backgroundImageView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false

        addSubview(backgroundImageView)
        sendSubviewToBack(backgroundImageView)

        // adding NSLayoutConstraints
        let leadingConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: backgroundImageView, attribute: .leading, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: self, attribute: .leading, multiplier: 1.0, constant: 0.0)
        let trailingConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: backgroundImageView, attribute: .trailing, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: self, attribute: .trailing, multiplier: 1.0, constant: 0.0)
        let topConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: backgroundImageView, attribute: .top, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: self, attribute: .top, multiplier: 1.0, constant: 0.0)
        let bottomConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: backgroundImageView, attribute: .bottom, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: self, attribute: .bottom, multiplier: 1.0, constant: 0.0)

        NSLayoutConstraint.activate([leadingConstraint, trailingConstraint, topConstraint, bottomConstraint])
    }
}

Note that the updates for this answer are:

• Swift 4 code

Answer 6

I used constraints to make the image "autoLayout". I made a view to show an activity indicator (with full background image), while the view on segue is loading. The code is as follows.

var containerView: UIView = UIView()
var actionIndicator: UIActivityIndicatorView = UIActivityIndicatorView()

private func showActivityIndicator() {
    ///first I set the containerView and the background image
    containerView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
    self.view.addSubview(containerView)
    adjustConstFullSize(containerView, parentView: self.view)
    let backImage = UIImageView(image: UIImage(named: "AppBackImage"))
    backImage.contentMode = UIViewContentMode.ScaleAspectFill
    backImage.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
    containerView.addSubview(backImage)
    adjustConstFullSize(backImage, parentView: containerView)

    ////setting the spinner (activity indicator)
    actionIndicator.frame = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 40.0, 40.0)
    actionIndicator.center = CGPointMake(containerView.bounds.size.width / 2, containerView.bounds.size.height / 2)
    actionIndicator.hidesWhenStopped = true
    actionIndicator.activityIndicatorViewStyle = UIActivityIndicatorViewStyle.WhiteLarge
    containerView.insertSubview(actionIndicator, aboveSubview: backImage)

    ///throw the container to the main view
    view.addSubview(containerView)
    actionIndicator.startAnimating()
}

This is the code for the "adjustConstFullSize" function.

func adjustConstFullSize(adjustedView: UIView!, parentView: UIView!) {
    let topConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: adjustedView,
        attribute: .Top,
        relatedBy: .Equal,
        toItem: parentView,
        attribute: .Top,
        multiplier: 1.0,
        constant: 0.0)

    let leftConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: adjustedView,
        attribute: .Leading,
        relatedBy: .Equal,
        toItem: parentView,
        attribute: .Leading,
        multiplier: 1.0,
        constant: 0.0)

    let rightConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: adjustedView,
        attribute: .Trailing,
        relatedBy: .Equal,
        toItem: parentView,
        attribute: .Trailing,
        multiplier: 1.0,
        constant: 0.0)


    let bottomConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: adjustedView,
        attribute: .Bottom,
        relatedBy: .Equal,
        toItem: parentView,
        attribute: .Bottom,
        multiplier: 1.0,
        constant: 0.0)

    parentView.addConstraints([topConstraint, leftConstraint, rightConstraint, bottomConstraint])
}

In the function shown above, I "tied" the containerView constraints to the main view constraints, making the view "full size". I did the same for the UIImageView and also set the contentMode to AspectFill - this is crucial, because we want the image to fill the content without stretching.

To remove the view, after the lazy loading, just use the code below.

private func hideActivityIndicator() {
    actionIndicator.stopAnimating()
    containerView.removeFromSuperview()
}