Comments on: Hide UISearchBar Background (iPhone SDK 3.2 & 4.0)

By: karthick

karthick — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:23:48 +0000

Great thank you very much.

By: irfan

irfan — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:19:01 +0000

nicely explained … thx

By: Oli

Oli — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 11:10:36 +0000

Great! Thanks a lot for sharing this!

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:42:59 +0000

@JF Martin
There are a number of ways you could add a background image to the search bar. One of the simpler methods which you could do before of after the original code I posted:

searchBar.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"BackgroundImage.png"]];

You could also add a view to the background view. In the original code I posted, just replace this:

[subview removeFromSuperview];

With this:

UIImageView *backgroundView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"BackgroundImage.png"]];
[subview addSubview:backgroundView];

And since UISearchBar inherits from UIView, you could remove the background image as in the original post, and then add the UISearchBar to another view that has a background.

By: JF Martin

JF Martin — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 14:11:12 +0000

Hi,
What if you want to replace the background image with a different one instead of removing it?
Thanks.

By: Ikus

Ikus — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:08:32 +0000

This has been really helpful for me. It saved me a lot of time searching the internet. Thanks a lot.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 03:03:21 +0000

Hi Grizzly,
I just tested this out using a nib on an iPad app (iOS 3.2) instead of programmatically creating the interface and it works correctly for me. Without seeing your code I’m not sure what to suggest (but feel free to post it here).

By: Grizzly

Grizzly — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:21:00 +0000

However this doesn’t work with 3.2. When I use this code I get a black background. Do you know what could be the problem?

I have my View that contains the search bar loaded from a nib.

The connections to outlets are made properly.

By: thankful

thankful — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:13:49 +0000

thank you for this, it did save me time…