Drawing a rectangle in UIView

Question

I am trying to draw a transparent rectangle in my UIView which has a black border.

My code however creates a completely black rectangle. Here\'s my code so far:

Answer 1

Your code does not require the CGContextSetRGBFillColor call and is missing the CGContextStrokeRect call. With Swift 5, your final draw(_:) implementation should look like this:

class CustomView: UIView {

    override init(frame: CGRect) {
        super.init(frame: frame)
        backgroundColor = .white
    }

    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
    }

    override func draw(_ rect: CGRect) {
        guard let ctx = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext() else { return }    
        ctx.setStrokeColor(red: 0, green: 0, blue: 0, alpha: 0.5)
        let rectangle = CGRect(x: 0, y: 100, width: 320, height: 100)
        ctx.stroke(rectangle)
    }

}

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As an alternative, if your really want to call CGContextSetRGBFillColor, you also to have call CGContextFillRect. Your final draw(_:) implementation would then look like this with Swift 3:

class CustomView: UIView {

    override init(frame: CGRect) {
        super.init(frame: frame)
        backgroundColor = .white
    }

    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
    }

    override func draw(_ rect: CGRect) {
        guard let ctx = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext() else { return }

        ctx.setFillColor(red: 1, green: 1, blue: 1, alpha: 0)
        ctx.setStrokeColor(red: 0, green: 0, blue: 0, alpha: 0.5)

        let rectangle = CGRect(x: 0, y: 100, width: 320, height: 100)
        ctx.fill(rectangle)
        ctx.stroke(rectangle)
    }

}