how to set a background image as colorWithPatternImage in swift

Question

My questions is, is it possible to have a UIView display an image, and if so, how so I do it? All I can find is the colorwithpatternImage which no longer works

Answer 1

This took me quite a bit of effort, capturing and passing along for reference. See below for full example of generation and use with swift.

Reference Example

• GitHub(jmr): Texture Reference - '0_1_TextureRef'

Demo App

Code Excerpt

Here is how a UIView is textured in the demo, see code for full listing -

func genTexturedView(_ view:UIView) {
    ...
    image.image = UIImage(named:"purple_example");
    view.addSubview(image);

    print("ViewController.genTexturedView():    Textured View added");

    return;
}