How to Set Uibutton Background Color Forstate: Uicontrolstate.Highlighted in Swift

How do I set UIButton background color forState: UIControlState.Highlighted in Swift

If anyone stops by, another way to go maybe more easily if it is something you need more than once... I wrote a short extension for UIButton, it works just fine:

for Swift 3

extension UIButton {
    func setBackgroundColor(color: UIColor, forState: UIControlState) {
        UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(CGSize(width: 1, height: 1))
        CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext(), color.CGColor)
        CGContextFillRect(UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext(), CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 1, height: 1))
        let colorImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
        UIGraphicsEndImageContext()

        self.setBackgroundImage(colorImage, forState: forState)
    }
}

for Swift 4

extension UIButton {
    func setBackgroundColor(color: UIColor, forState: UIControl.State) {
        self.clipsToBounds = true  // add this to maintain corner radius
        UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(CGSize(width: 1, height: 1))
        if let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext() {
            context.setFillColor(color.cgColor)
            context.fill(CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 1, height: 1))
            let colorImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
            UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
            self.setBackgroundImage(colorImage, for: forState)
        }
    }
}

You use it just like setBackgroundImage:

yourButton.setBackgroundColor(color: UIColor.white, forState: UIControl.State.highlighted)

UIButton background color for highlighted/selected state issue

I found the issue, UIButton was set to System.I simply changed it to Custom, it started working as expected.

How to change the background color of a UIButton while it's highlighted?

You can override UIButton's setHighlighted method.

Objective-C

- (void)setHighlighted:(BOOL)highlighted {
    [super setHighlighted:highlighted];

    if (highlighted) {
        self.backgroundColor = UIColorFromRGB(0x387038);
    } else {
        self.backgroundColor = UIColorFromRGB(0x5bb75b);
    }
}

Swift 3.0 and Swift 4.1

override open var isHighlighted: Bool {
    didSet {
        backgroundColor = isHighlighted ? UIColor.black : UIColor.white
    }
}

How to change the highlighted color of a UIButton?

Try to Override the UIButton with the following Method.. and just change the backgroud color of button when its in highlighted state.

- (void)setHighlighted:(BOOL)highlighted {
    [super setHighlighted:highlighted];

    if (highlighted) {
        self.backgroundColor = [UIColor Your Customcolor];
    }
    else{
        self.backgroundColor = [UIColor Your DefaultColor];
    }   

}

Try it..hope it helps

How to set UIButton background color by state

Get an UIImage from UIColor, use that image as background image for the button.

- (UIImage *)imageWithColor:(UIColor *)color
{
    CGRect rect = CGRectMake(0.0f, 0.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f);
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rect.size);
    CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();

    CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(context, [color CGColor]);
    CGContextFillRect(context, rect);

    UIImage *image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

    return image;
}

[button setBackgroundImage:[self imageWithColor:[UIColor lightGrayColor]] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[button setBackgroundImage:[self imageWithColor:[UIColor redColor]] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];