Use a UIView as the background of a UIButton?

Question

I have a UIButton. Rather than giving it a background Image, I want to use a custom UIView object as the background. I realize I could do this by rendering the UIView into an image, then using that. But is there a better way?

I've looked at playing with the Button's view tree, but that seems to have undesirable side effects.

Answer 1

To achieve the same, I usually do this:

Add subview to the parentView

Add a UIButton with clearColor to the parentView, with the same frame as the subview.

You can achieve the same by creating a custom UIView class that has this view and button as its properties.

Answer 2

If you want to use a UIView as a button, you should just add a tap gesture recognizer to the UIView and use that. Is there something specific you're looking for?