UITableViewController Background Image

Question

How can I set an image for UITableViewController?

I have used many things but it doesn't help me to set the image as background

UIImageView* bgView = [[[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:
[UIImage imageNamed:@"Default.png"]] autorelease];

[tableView.backgroundView addSubview:bgView];

And this

[[self view] setAutoresizesSubviews:NO];

UIView *backgroundView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.frame];
backgroundView.backgroundColor = 
  [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:
    [UIImage imageNamed:@"Default.png"]];

self.tableView.backgroundView = backgroundView;
self.tableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];

[backgroundView release];

And

self.navigationController.view.backgroundColor = 
  [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:
    [UIImage imageNamed:@"myImage.png"]];
self.tableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];

None of it worked for me.

Answer 1

sets the background fill mode

[youTable setBackgroundView:
  [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:
    [UIImage imageNamed:@"bg.png"]]];

sets the background mode tile

[youTable setBackgroundColor:
  [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:
    [UIImage imageNamed:@"bg.png"]]];

Answer 2

UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"image.png"];
UIImageView *imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:image];

UITableView *tableView = (UITableView*)tableViewController.view;
tableView.backgroundView = imageView;
[imageView release];

Answer 3

This worked for me :

tableView.backgroundView = 
  [[UIImageView alloc]initWithImage:
    [[UIImage imageNamed:@"background.png"] stretchableImageWithLeftCapWidth:0.0 
                                            topCapHeight:5.0]];

Answer 4

If all the aforementioned suggestions don't work, just do it this way (the approach I always use):

1. Create a UIViewController subclass.
2. In viewDidLoad add both an UIImageView and an UITableView as subviews.
3. Configure the tableView and implement the delegate methods. Set the background image in the imageView.

I think setting the backgroundView for a tableView can cause graphical errors (repeating images for each cell), so that's why I use the approach described here.

Answer 5

You can set the tableviews background view to a UIImageView instance (property backgroundView of UITableView).

Answer 6

Following code is works well for me. Can you try following code:-

UIImageView *bgView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"Default.png"]];
bgView.frame = self.view.frame;
self.tableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
self.tableView.backgroundView = bgView;
[bgView release];

Answer 7

This worked for me :

self.tableView.backgroundView = nil;
self.tableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"bg2.png"]];

or

[self.tableView setBackgroundView:nil];
[self.tableView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"bg2.png"]]];

Answer 8

i was also not able to set the backgroundColor of UITableView because it's a UITableViewController, my issue solved by this

[self.tableView setBackgroundView:
  [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:
    [UIImage imageNamed:@"bg.png"]]];

As suggested by the "WhiteTiger".

Answer 9

Updating for Swift 4

The problem I was having was that I wanted to add a button and a background image to the UITableViewController. I added the button successfully, but every time I added the image container, it would replace the button instead of adding it below the button. So to get both, I added the following in the ViewWillAppear function:

override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillAppear(animated)

    // Add a background view to the table view
    let backgroundImage = UIImage(named: "carbonfiber1.png")
    let imageView = UIImageView(image: backgroundImage)
    self.tableView.backgroundView = imageView
}