How to customize appearance of UISearchBar

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Oscar picture Oscar · Jun 1, 2011 · Viewed 54.9k times · Source

I want to customize the search bar, I mean the white box. Can I do it? Is there some documentation about that? Is there a way to hide the white box, but not the letters. Can I at least make the box smaller? I mean less height

Answer

Ilker Baltaci picture Ilker Baltaci · Sep 11, 2012

By IOS 5.0 you have the chance to use 

  [[UISearchBar appearance] setSearchFieldBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"searchbar.png"]forState:UIControlStateNormal];

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