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How would I change the background color of a button to black?

Cœur
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baiju krishnan
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  • Read this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2808888/is-it-even-possible-to-change-a-uibuttons-background-color – Johannes Lumpe May 08 '12 at 06:26
  • see this thread http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2808888/is-it-even-possible-to-change-a-uibuttons-background-color/2809237#2809237 – Saad May 08 '12 at 06:35

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If you want to programatically change the colour of button you will have to make the type of button as custom as :-

UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:uibuttontypecustom];
note "uibuttontypecustom"

and then you can change backgroung by [btn setBackgroundColor:[UIColor blackColor]]; or you can set a black backgroung image by using steImage method on btn.

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Abhishek Singh
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I think this will help you, 

[button setBackgroundColor:[UIColor redColor]];
Mick MacCallum
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Khushbu Patel
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Mr/Ms Baiju please review below my code,

UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeRoundedRect];
button.frame = CGRectMake(10, 200, 300, 40);
[button setTitle:@"Button" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[button addTarget:self action:@selector(buttonAction) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
[button setBackgroundColor:[UIColor blackColor]];
[button setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"image.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[self.view addSubview: button];

I think it will help you to set background color and set background image for a button. If you want to set image please change the button type RoundedRect to Custom. I hope it will help you little bit. Thanks.

Yuvaraj.M
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Use this line of code and try use any color image .

[myButton setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"image.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
vishiphone
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  • is this really the only way to do it? if so, xcode is greatly lacking in options. although many of us already knew that – Katushai Mar 23 '14 at 18:13
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If anyone wants to know how to make same thing in swift with full code then here it is...Just write this code in your ViewController.swift

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController
{ 
    var firstbutton:UIButton? //firstbutton = Your Button Name

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        self.firstbutton = UIButton.buttonWithType(UIButtonType.Custom) as? UIButton
        self.firstbutton!.frame = CGRectMake(100, 200, 100, 100)

        //This Line is used for color of your button

        self.firstbutton!.backgroundColor = UIColor.redColor()
        self.view.addSubview(firstbutton!)
    }

    //This section is used to bring the button in front of everything on the view

    override func viewDidAppear(animated: Bool) {
        self.view.bringSubviewToFront(self.firstbutton!)
    }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
    }
Uyghur Lives Matter
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in your XIB drag and drop a button. got to button properties in your right hand side and set button type to custom. (Or you can do than in code too). In your .h file create UIButton * btn; and bind it to the XIB.

Then go to .m file and in viewdidload method right this code.

[btn setBackgroundColor:[UIColor blackColor]];

Thanks :)

Sameera Chathuranga
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  • this is the same answer as above, and it didnt work when i tried it his way either. also, the question was asking how to do it programmatically. that implies no use of IB at all – Katushai Mar 23 '14 at 18:13
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Change the layer colour e.g. self.btn.layer.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor].CGColor;

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