Insets to UIImageView?

Question

I would like to achieve :

• Scale to fill mode of image view
• Insets to UIImageView so that image does not meet the edges of the UIImageView

Bottomline: I want to increase the touch area of the UIImageView without stretching the image beyond certain size.

Is it possible through storyboard ? If not can anyone tell how to do it programmatically ?

I can achieve similar functionality through a UIButton and setting image inset through storyboard but I can't find any such thing with UIImageView.

Answer 1

You can add inset to UIImage instead of UIImageView.

Swift 4

let imageView = UIImageView() 
imageView.contentMode = .scaleAspectFill
imageView.image = UIImage(named: "example")?.withAlignmentRectInsets(UIEdgeInsets(top: -4, left: 0, bottom: -4, right: 0))