iOS - Setting UIButton background color only colors the corners

Question

I\'m trying to customize my button by changing their colors, but when I use either:

self.loginButton.layer.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.0 green:         


        

Answer 1

You're using a round rect button which is pretty ugly, and pretty hard to customise.

You can create a custom type button and use a background image, or create a custom type button and round the corners and set the background colour of the layer yourself.

If you want to get really fancy there is a nice tutorial here which can give you any-sized gradient type buttons using layers, no image files required.

Answer 2

I discovered this almost by accident:

self.loginButton.tintColor = [UIColor redColor];

Definitely works and has been available since iOS 2.0.

Answer 3

What's that button type? If you want to customise button, you gotta create a button with [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom]