How to apply text shadow to UITextView?

Question

Actually I love UILabel. They\'re sweet. Now I had to go to UITextView because UILabel is not aligning text vertically to the top. Damn. O

Answer 1

In iOS 6+ use attributed text

NSShadow * shadow = [[NSShadow alloc] init];
shadow.shadowColor = [UIColor blackColor];
shadow.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(2, 2);

NSDictionary * textAttributes =
@{ NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor blueColor],
   NSShadowAttributeName          : shadow,
   NSFontAttributeName            : [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:20] };

textView.attributedText = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"Hello" 
                                                          attributes:textAttributes];