How do you make a background image scale to screen size in swift?

Question

I'm trying to make a UIView image for my background in swift using pattern image. The code I have works well except for the fact that I want the image to take the whole screen. My code looks like this: self.view.backgroundColor = UIColor(patternImage: UIImage(named: "backgroundImage")!)

Does anyone know how to make the background an image that will take up the whole screen, and would scale when appearing on different iPhone screen sizes?

Answer 1

Note That:

I posted this answer from my old account (which is deprecated for me and I can't access it anymore), this is my improved answer.

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You can do it programmatically instead of creating an IBOutlet in each view. just create a UIView extension (File -> New -> File -> Swift File -> name it whatever you want) and add:

extension UIView {
func addBackground() {
    // screen width and height:
    let width = UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.size.width
    let height = UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.size.height

    let imageViewBackground = UIImageView(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, width, height))
    imageViewBackground.image = UIImage(named: "YOUR IMAGE NAME GOES HERE")

    // you can change the content mode:
    imageViewBackground.contentMode = UIViewContentMode.ScaleAspectFill

    self.addSubview(imageViewBackground)
    self.sendSubviewToBack(imageViewBackground)
}}

Now, you can use this method with your views, for example:

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    self.view.addBackground()
}