Setting an image for a UIButton in code

How do you set the image for a UIButton in code?

I have this:

UIButton *btnTwo = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeRoundedRect];
btnTwo.frame = CGRectMake(40, 140, 240, 30);
[btnTwo setTitle:@"vc2:v1" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[btnTwo addTarget:self action:@selector(goToOne) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
[self.view addSubview:btnTwo];

but don't see what will set the image for it.

Mike's solution will just show the image, but any title set on the button will not be visible, because you can either set the title or the image.

If you want to set both (your image and title) use the following code:

btnImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"image.png"];
[btnTwo setBackgroundImage:btnImage forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[btnTwo setTitle:@"Title" forState:UIControlStateNormal];

You can do it like this


[btnTwo setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"image.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

I was looking for a solution to add an `UIImage` to my `UIButton`. The problem was just it displays the image bigger than needed. Just helped me with this:

_imageViewBackground = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:rectImageView];
_imageViewBackground.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"gradientBackgroundPlain"];
[self addSubview:_imageViewBackground];
[self insertSubview:_imageViewBackground belowSubview:self.label];
_imageViewBackground.hidden = YES;

Every time I want to display my `UIImageView` I just set the var `hidden` to `YES` or `NO`.
There might be other solutions but I got confused so many times with this stuff and this solved it and I didn't need to deal with internal stuff `UIButton` is doing in background.

In case of Swift User

// case of normal image
let image1 = UIImage(named: "your_image_file_name_without_extension")!
button1.setImage(image1, forState: UIControlState.Normal)

// in case you don't want image to change when "clicked", you can leave code below
// case of when button is clicked
let image2 = UIImage(named: "image_clicked")!
button1.setImage(image2, forState: UIControlState.Highlight)

UIButton *btn = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
btn.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 150, 44);
[btn setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"buttonimage.png"]
forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[btn addTarget:self
action:@selector(btnSendComment_pressed:)
forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
[self.view addSubview:btn];

Before this would work for me I had to resize the button frame explicitly based on the image frame size.

UIImage *listImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"list_icon.png"];
UIButton *listButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];

// get the image size and apply it to the button frame
CGRect listButtonFrame = listButton.frame;
listButtonFrame.size = listImage.size;
listButton.frame = listButtonFrame;

[listButton setImage:listImage forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[listButton addTarget:self.navigationController.parentViewController
action:@selector(revealToggle:)
forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
UIBarButtonItem *jobsButton =
[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:listButton];

self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = jobsButton;

You can put the image in either of the way:

UIButton *btnTwo = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeRoundedRect];
btnTwo.frame = CGRectMake(40, 140, 240, 30);
[btnTwo setTitle:@"vc2:v1" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[btnTwo addTarget:self
action:@selector(goToOne)
forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];


[btnTwo setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"name.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

//OR setting as background image

[btnTwo setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"name.png"]
forState:UIControlStateNormal];

[self.view addSubview:btnTwo];

Don't worry so much framing the button from code, you can do that on the storyboard. This worked for me, one line...more simple.

[self.button setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed: @"yourPic.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

-(void)buttonTouched:(id)sender
{
UIButton *btn = (UIButton *)sender;

if( [[btn imageForState:UIControlStateNormal] isEqual:[UIImage imageNamed:@"icon-Locked.png"]])
{
[btn setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"icon-Unlocked.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
// other statements....
}
else
{
[btn setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"icon-Locked.png"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
// other statements....
}
}