Question

I have an iOS application which uses an UIStoryboard to control its flow. I would like to have all my views defined in the UIStoryboard to all share a common background. Is there a way I can do this without having to add an UIImageView control to each View?

I have tried this below but it causes my application crash with a stack overflow error:

-(void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad]; 
    UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"MyBackgroundImage.png"];
    UIImageView *imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:image];
    [self.view addSubview:imageView];
    [self.view sendSubviewToBack:imageView];
}

Is there a better way to do this? What is the best way to handle this kind of theming in iOS applications?

Answer 1

Subclass UIViewController and override -viewDidLoad to create your image and set it as the background of the view. Now make the view controllers that require this background image subclasses of your custom view controller instead of UIViewController.