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Apparently a UIColor is not necessarily a single color, but can be a pattern as well. Confusingly, this is not supported in Interface Builder. Instead you set the backgroundColor of the view (say, in -viewDidLoad) with the convenience method +colorWithPatternImage: and pass it a UI Image. For Instance:
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Animation can be applied while its frame, bounds, center, transform, alpha… is being changed. The key is set start and end values between beginAnimations and commitAnimations, so called animation block.
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UIAlertView takes care of this UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@”Alert View” message:@”Here is an alert message” delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@”Cancel” otherButtonTitles:@”OK”, nil]; [alert show]; // Since alert object is allocated above, it must be released here [alert release];