iOS light linen background?

Question

I really want to know if there's a way to get iOS's light linen background. Here's what it looks like:

Is there a way to access this by merely using the built-in SDK? Or do I have to find an image like this somewhere?

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EDIT: I didn't want to use private APIs, so here's what I did. I grabbed the image this way:

CGRect rect = CGRectMake(0.0f, 0.0f, 640.0f, 960.0f);
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rect.size);
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(context, [[UIColor underPageBackgroundColor] CGColor]);
CGContextFillRect(context, rect);
UIImage *image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *imagepath = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"underPageBackground.png"];
[UIImagePNGRepresentation(image) writeToFile:imagepath atomically:YES];

And here is the resulting png in retina resolution: (click on thumbnail to open)

Hope this is useful to someone. :)

Answer 1

Use [UIColor underPageBackgroundColor] . And here is a link with useful information and samples.

Answer 2

I'm not sure it is exactly the one (seems darker to me) but, you can choose the "Scroll View Textured Background Color" in Interface Builder. To do so, when selection a color choose the dropbox to the right instead of the color box on the left.

Answer 3

I believe you should be able to find this background in the SDK(it should be the default one for this kind of "flick page up" function) or on google (try looking for UIStockImageUnderPageBackground.png ).

Otherwise - it looks like a pattern. What you could do is to import the attached screenshot, then cut a bit without the shadows and fill a blank canvas with it, so that the sides match forming the original pattern.

Answer 4

This isn't really a solution to get the actual image but you can easily just make the texture. I just pulled up a tutorial on how to make it in photoshop. iOS Linen tute here This way you can make it whatever color you want!