ios - set cornerRadius and setbackgroundimage to UIButton -

i trying set cornerradius of uibutton dont know how it.

if this:

button.layer.cornerradius = 5; 

works well, if :

button.layer.cornerradius = 5; [button setbackgroundcolor:[uicolor colorwithpatternimage:radialgradient]]; 

the corners not rounded.

i know solve whit

 [button.layer setmaskstobounds:yes]; 

but looking different solution, because add arrows button , if set mask bounds arrow masked.

edit :

radialgradient made whit func

+ (uiimage *)getradialgradientimage:(cgsize)size centre:(cgpoint)centre radius:(float)radius startcolor:(uicolor *)startcolor endcolor:(uicolor *)endcolor{  // initialise uigraphicsbeginimagecontextwithoptions(size, yes, 1);  // create gradient's colours size_t num_locations = 2; cgfloat locations[2] = { 0.0, 1.0 };  const cgfloat *component_first = cgcolorgetcomponents([startcolor cgcolor]);  cgfloat red1 = component_first[0]; cgfloat green1 = component_first[1]; cgfloat blue1 = component_first[2];  const cgfloat *component_second = cgcolorgetcomponents([endcolor cgcolor]); cgfloat red2 = component_second[0]; cgfloat green2 = component_second[1]; cgfloat blue2 = component_second[2];  const cgfloat components[8] = { red1,green1,blue1,1,red2,green2,blue2,1}; // end color  cgcolorspaceref mycolorspace = cgcolorspacecreatedevicergb(); cggradientref mygradient = cggradientcreatewithcolorcomponents (mycolorspace, components, locations, num_locations);  // normalise 0-1 ranged inputs width of image cgpoint mycentrepoint = cgpointmake(centre.x * size.width, centre.y * size.height); float myradius = min(size.width, size.height) * radius;  // draw it! cgcontextdrawradialgradient (uigraphicsgetcurrentcontext(), mygradient, mycentrepoint,                              0, mycentrepoint, myradius,                              kcggradientdrawsafterendlocation);  // grab autoreleased image uiimage *image = uigraphicsgetimagefromcurrentimagecontext();  // clean cgcolorspacerelease(mycolorspace); // necessary? cggradientrelease(mygradient); // necessary? uigraphicsendimagecontext(); // clean return image; } 

here how create button through code , set background color.

uibutton *btn = [uibutton buttonwithtype:uibuttontypecustom]; btn.frame = cgrectmake(100, 100, 100,50); [btn settitle:@"hello" forstate:uicontrolstatenormal]; [btn setbackgroundcolor:[uicolor colorwithred:128.0/255.0f green:0.0/255.0f  blue:0.0/255.0f alpha:0.7]]; btn.frame = cgrectmake(100.0, 100.0, 120.0, 50.0);//width , height should same  value btn.clipstobounds = yes;  btn.layer.cornerradius = 20;//half of width btn.layer.bordercolor=[uicolor redcolor].cgcolor; btn.layer.borderwidth=2.0f;  [self.view addsubview:btn]; 

below image of button related above code

you can play around code , create colors need background , border. hope out.