How to get text in a CATextLayer to be clear

Question

I\'ve made a CALayer with an added CATextLayer and the text comes out blurry. In the docs, they talk about \"sub-pixel antialiasing\", but that doesn\

Answer 1

If you came searching here for a similar issue for a CATextLayer in OSX, after much wall head banging, I got the sharp clear text by doing:

text_layer.contentsScale = self.window!.backingScaleFactor

(I also set the views background layer contentsScale to be the same).