Smoothing a rounded stroke in Core Graphics

Question

I am creating my own UITableViewCells with a gradient background. I have all the logic and drawing worked out, but one thing I want to fix is the \"chunkiness\" around the

Answer 1

The other way to make the stroke consistent would be to move the AddPath and StrokePath calls up above the RestoreGState call—that is, stroke while clipped.

For a truly 2-pt-wide stroke with this solution, simply double the line width you put in the graphics state (i.e., set it to 4 pt), since half of it will be clipped out.