Is there an way to make an invisible UIButton that will still “be there” and catch touch events for my UIImageView?

Question

I thought to be clever and just put an transparent UIButton over an UIImageView with the exact frame size, so that I can wire it up easily with any event I like, for example

Answer 1

Jasons answer above is nearly correct, but setting the button type is not possible. So to programmatically create an empty button, use this code:

UIButton* myButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
myButton.frame=frame;
[self.view addSubview:myButton];