How to achieve UIButton / UILabel 'padding' in iPhone app

Question

I\'ve got various views in my iPhone application that require padding e.g a custom UIButton with text aligned left, and a UILabel with a background color.

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Answer 1

Here's a sublass of UILabel that has customizable padding using an edgeInset property:

PaddedLabel.h

#import 
@interface PaddedLabel : UILabel
@property UIEdgeInsets edgeInsets;
@end

PaddedLabel.m

#import "PaddedLabel.h"
@implementation PaddedLabel
-(void)drawTextInRect:(CGRect)rect {
    return [super drawTextInRect:UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(rect, self.edgeInsets)];
}
-(CGSize)intrinsicContentSize {
    CGSize contentSize = [super intrinsicContentSize];
    UIEdgeInsets insets = self.edgeInsets;
    contentSize.height += insets.top + insets.bottom;
    contentSize.width += insets.left + insets.right;
    return contentSize;
}
@end

(This is a simplification of Brody's answer which also works with autolayout.)