UISearchBar completely custom background

Question

I am trying to change the appearance of an UISearchBar to obtain the following result

Custom Search Bar http://imageshack.com/a/img194/3835/jhl7.png

I tried with UIAppearance methods, and also by removing the UISearchBarBackground, but it seems that the border of the textfield cannot be removed.

The best result i obtained is :

The problem is not the magnifying glass, but the border :)

Answer 1

Try to set clear color to your serch bar:

[[UISearchBar appearance] setTintColor:[UIColor clearColor]];

Or try:

UIImage *searchBg = [UIImage imageNamed:@"Search_Background.png"];
searchBg = [searchBg stretchableImageWithLeftCapWidth:10 topCapHeight:10]; //experiment with values
 [[UISearchBar appearance] setSearchFieldBackgroundImage: [[UIImage imageNamed: @"background-search"];