Question

I’m trying to make it so that I have a UIImageView with an image, regardless of its size beforehand, so that the background color of the UIImageView shows up as a border around the UIImage.

I tried making the UIImageView with an image and then shrinking the bounds but that didn’t work.

Any help?

Answer 1

A much simpler approach is to setup the border on the image view’s layer:

UIImageView *imageView = ... // create image view with image
imageView.layer.borderWidth = 1; // Size as desired
imageView.layer.borderColor = [[UIColor blackColor] CGColor]; // use your own color

You need to import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h> to make this work.