Programmatically set image to UIImageView with Xcode 6.1/Swift

Since you have your bgImage assigned and linked as an IBOutlet, there is no need to initialize it as a UIImageView… instead all you need to do is set the image property like bgImage.image = UIImage(named: "afternoon"). After running this code, the image appeared fine since it was already assigned using the outlet.

However, if it wasn’t an outlet and you didn’t have it already connected to a UIImageView object on a storyboard/xib file, then you could so something like the following…

class ViewController: UIViewController {
    var bgImage: UIImageView?

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        var image: UIImage = UIImage(named: "afternoon")!
        bgImage = UIImageView(image: image)
        bgImage!.frame = CGRectMake(0,0,100,200)
        self.view.addSubview(bgImage!)
    }
}