How do I scale a UIButton's imageView?

Solution 1:

For the original poster, here is the solution I found:

commentButton.contentHorizontalAlignment = UIControlContentHorizontalAlignmentFill;

This will allow your button to scale horizontally. There is a vertical setting as well.

Took me several hours to figure that one out (the naming of the property is very unintuitive) so figured I'd share.

Solution 2:

I'd faced similar problem, where I've a background Image (one with border) and an image (flag) for a custom button. I wanted flag to be scaled down and in center. I tried changing imageView's attribute but didn't succeed and was seeing this image --

During my experiments, I tried :

button.imageEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(kTop,kLeft,kBottom,kRight)

I achieved expected result as :