Question

I’m very new to iOS programming.
I’m trying to set the toolbar background to a custom image.
I’m also using storyboards.
How do I go about that?
Do I edit UIToolbar in the UI Kit framework? Do I need to change something in Storyboard?

Thanks,

Answer 1

You can use UIToolbar‘s built-in -setBackgroundImage:forToolbarPosition:barMetrics: method:

// portrait
[yourToolbar setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"YourToolbarBkg-Portrait.png"] forToolbarPosition:UIToolbarPositionAny barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];

// landscape
[yourToolbar setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"YourToolbarBkg-Landscape.png"] forToolbarPosition:UIToolbarPositionAny barMetrics: UIBarMetricsLandscapePhone];

• YourToolbarBkg-Portrait.png will be 320×44 bkg image for portrait mode
• YourToolbarBkg-Landscape.png will be 480×32 bkg image for landscape mode.