iPhone UITableView PlainStyle with custom background image - done “entirely” in code

Question

I have been all over the place, seems the UITableView with a static background issue is well documented, but no one with a straight forward solution? Im building my

Answer 1

All of this jumping through hoops is unnecessary if you're targeting > iOS 3.2, where you can use the new backgroundView property to set a UIImageView directly, e.g.:

// In your UITableViewController subclass
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];

    UIImageView *view = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"background.png"]];
    self.tableView.backgroundView = view;
}