Adding Background image to UILabel
Solution 1:
Try doing it with code:
Objective-C:
theLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"blah"]];
Swift:
theLabel.backgroundColor = UIColor(patternImage: UIImage(named: "blah")!)
Or place an UIImageView
behind the label (not recommended).
Update: placing an UIImageView behind a label was not recommended because then you would have to manage two views. But if you must do something that only an UIImageView can do this is still a good approach. I suspect that your app will actually run better this way.
Solution 2:
if you want that image should be stretched to fill the Label width. try this code.
UILabel *myLabel=[[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 20)];
UIImage *img = [UIImage imageNamed:@"a.png"];
CGSize imgSize = myLabel.frame.size;
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext( imgSize );
[img drawInRect:CGRectMake(0,0,imgSize.width,imgSize.height)];
UIImage* newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
myLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:newImage];