IPhone - Setting background on UITableView?

(This is basically the same as Hans Espen's solution above, but uses convenience methods for brevity) Put this in your -UITableViewControllerSubclass viewDidLoad method: self.tableView. BackgroundColor = UIColor colorWithPatternImage:UIImage imageNamed:@"BackgroundPattern. Png" There's no point in avoiding a couple of autoreleases in a viewDidLoad method, since it only gets called rarely (when the view actually loads) and will therefore have negligible impact on performance N.B.You should always use PNG images on the iPhone, not JPEG or any other format.

(This is basically the same as Hans Espen's solution above, but uses convenience methods for brevity) Put this in your -UITableViewControllerSubclass viewDidLoad method: self.tableView. BackgroundColor = UIColor colorWithPatternImage:UIImage imageNamed:@"BackgroundPattern. Png"; There's no point in avoiding a couple of autoreleases in a viewDidLoad method, since it only gets called rarely (when the view actually loads) and will therefore have negligible impact on performance.N.B.You should always use PNG images on the iPhone, not JPEG or any other format.

Why only . Png for iOS? – Pierre Valade Aug 19 '10 at 15:33 3 I should clarify - use PNG for everything that isn't photographic.

PNGs are hardware accelerated by the GPUs on iOS devices, so all of your UI images should be in PNG format. PNG supports alpha transparency, which is a necessity for a lot of UI graphics. For anything photographic, JPEG compression will give you smaller file sizes, so that may be a benefit.

– Nick Forge Aug 20 '10 at 3:51 1 This sets the background of each group when the table is set to a grouped style though, is there a way to solve this? – Donal Rafferty May 30 at 10:40 As of iOS 3.2, there's a UITableView. BackgroundView property, which AFAIK makes the color/pattern workaround redundant (if you can drop pre-3.2 support).

– Nick Forge May 31 at 3:09 Where can we find an answer to this question that utilizes UITableView. BackgroundView? I'll upvote if you add a new answer and tag me.

– AWrightIV Jun 13 at 16:26.

Actually, I got it working! :) NSString *backgroundPath = NSBundle mainBundle pathForResource:@"background" ofType:@"jpg"; UIImage *backgroundImage = UIImage imageWithContentsOfFile:backgroundPath; UIColor *backgroundColor = UIColor alloc initWithPatternImage:backgroundImage; self.tableView. BackgroundColor = backgroundColor; backgroundColor release.

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