Create a border around UIImageView using 8 images

Question

I have 8 images I made, 4 images for each of the corners, and 4 images for each of the sides of UIImageView. Now, how on Earth do I make them \'come around\' th

Answer 1

It is not really what you are asking for but this is the solution closest to what you are trying to do.

You should take your 8 images and combine them into one single image and then make a resizable image out of that using resizableImageWithCapInsets:resizingMode:.

The first arguments lets you specify the top, left, bottom and right inset (i.e. the sizes of your images).

The second argument determines if the areas are stretched or tiled.

Stretched

Tiled

So to use it you would do something similar to

UIImage *myFullImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"nameOfTheCombinedImage"];
UIImage *resizableImage = 
[myFullImage resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(top, left, bottom, right)resizingMode:UIImageResizingModeTile];

(stretched vs tiles images "borrowed" from here)