UIView with rounded corners and drop shadow?

Question

I’ve been working on an application for a couple of years and received a simple design request: Round the corners on a UIView and add a drop shadow.To do as given below.

Answer 1

One way to do this is to put the view with rounded corners in a view with the drop shadow.

UIView* roundedView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame: frame];
roundedView.layer.cornerRadius = 5.0;
roundedView.layer.masksToBounds = YES;

UIView* shadowView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame: frame];
shadowView.layer.shadowColor = [UIColor blackColor].CGColor;
shadowView.layer.shadowRadius = 5.0;
shadowView.layer.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(3.0, 3.0);
shadowView.layer.shadowOpacity = 1.0;
[shadowView addSubview: roundedView];

Then you can add the shadowView wherever you want.