Adding background to ios app in xcode 6 using Swift

Question

I am new to ios development so please forgive me. I am taking it step by step and I was wondering how would I make a image I want to be the background in the view controller so I can add on top of it?

Solution 1

If you want to do it programmatically using swift here is the code:

 self.view.backgroundColor = UIColor(patternImage: UIImage(named: "yourImage.png"))

Or you can create a uiimage and place your image in it:

let yourImage = UIImage(named: "yourImage.png")
let imageview = UIImageView(image: yourImage)
self.view.addSubview(imageview)

Solution 2

Add a UIImageView to your view controller's view. Assign your background image to the image view. You can do all this in the storyboard file.

Good luck!