Tiled background image in custom UIView class

Sometimes you need a repeated or tiled image in your app, often for a background. Something like these rain-drops for example:

Here’s a simple UIView subclass that accepts an image parameter, and renders a repeated tiled image, even in the storyboard:

It creates a patterned image in a UIColor object, sets this as the current fill, and then fills the view’s rect with this color.

Here’s how it looks in the storyboard:

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