Swift - Problems with corner radius and drop shadow

Question

I\'m trying to create a button with rounded corners and a drop shadow. No matter how I switch up, the button will not display correctly. I\

Answer 1

You can create a protocol and conform it to you UIView, UIButton, Cell or whatever you want like that:

protocol RoundedShadowable: class {
    var shadowLayer: CAShapeLayer? { get set }
    var layer: CALayer { get }
    var bounds: CGRect { get }
}
​
extension RoundedShadowable {
    func applyShadowOnce(withCornerRadius cornerRadius: CGFloat, andFillColor fillColor: UIColor) {
        if self.shadowLayer == nil {
            let shadowLayer = CAShapeLayer()
            shadowLayer.path = UIBezierPath(roundedRect: bounds, cornerRadius: cornerRadius).cgPath
            shadowLayer.fillColor = fillColor.cgColor
            shadowLayer.shadowColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
            shadowLayer.shadowPath = shadowLayer.path
            shadowLayer.shadowOffset = CGSize(width: 0.0, height: 2.0)
            shadowLayer.shadowOpacity = 0.2
            shadowLayer.shadowRadius = 3
            self.layer.insertSublayer(shadowLayer, at: 0)
            self.shadowLayer = shadowLayer
        }
    }
}
​
class RoundShadowView: UIView, RoundedShadowable {

    var shadowLayer: CAShapeLayer?
    private let cornerRadius: CGFloat
    private let fillColor: UIColor

    init(cornerRadius: CGFloat, fillColor: UIColor) {
        self.cornerRadius = cornerRadius
        self.fillColor = fillColor
        super.init(frame: .zero)
    }

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

    override func layoutSubviews() {
        super.layoutSubviews()
        self.applyShadowOnce(withCornerRadius: self.cornerRadius, andFillColor: self.fillColor)
    }
}
​
class RoundShadowButton: UIButton, RoundedShadowable {

    var shadowLayer: CAShapeLayer?
    private let cornerRadius: CGFloat
    private let fillColor: UIColor

    init(cornerRadius: CGFloat, fillColor: UIColor) {
        self.cornerRadius = cornerRadius
        self.fillColor = fillColor
        super.init(frame: .zero)
    }

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

    override func layoutSubviews() {
        super.layoutSubviews()
        self.applyShadowOnce(withCornerRadius: self.cornerRadius, andFillColor: self.fillColor)
    }
}

Answer 2

My custom button with some shadow and rounded corners, I use it directly within the Storyboard with no need to touch it programmatically.

Swift 4

class RoundedButtonWithShadow: UIButton {
    override func awakeFromNib() {
        super.awakeFromNib()
        self.layer.masksToBounds = false
        self.layer.cornerRadius = self.frame.height/2
        self.layer.shadowColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
        self.layer.shadowPath = UIBezierPath(roundedRect: self.bounds, cornerRadius: self.layer.cornerRadius).cgPath
        self.layer.shadowOffset = CGSize(width: 0.0, height: 3.0)
        self.layer.shadowOpacity = 0.5
        self.layer.shadowRadius = 1.0
    }
}

Answer 3

Swift 5 & No need of "UIBezierPath"

    view.layer.cornerRadius = 15
    view.clipsToBounds = true
    view.layer.masksToBounds = false
    view.layer.shadowRadius = 7
    view.layer.shadowOpacity = 0.6
    view.layer.shadowOffset = CGSize(width: 0, height: 5)
    view.layer.shadowColor = UIColor.red.cgColor

Answer 4

To expand on Imanou's post, it's possible to programmatically add the shadow layer in the custom button class

@IBDesignable class CustomButton: UIButton {
    var shadowAdded: Bool = false

    @IBInspectable var cornerRadius: CGFloat = 0 {
        didSet {
            layer.cornerRadius = cornerRadius
            layer.masksToBounds = cornerRadius > 0
        }
    }

    override func drawRect(rect: CGRect) {
        super.drawRect(rect)

        if shadowAdded { return }
        shadowAdded = true

        let shadowLayer = UIView(frame: self.frame)
        shadowLayer.backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor()
        shadowLayer.layer.shadowColor = UIColor.darkGrayColor().CGColor
        shadowLayer.layer.shadowPath = UIBezierPath(roundedRect: bounds, cornerRadius: self.cornerRadius).CGPath
        shadowLayer.layer.shadowOffset = CGSize(width: 1.0, height: 1.0)
        shadowLayer.layer.shadowOpacity = 0.5
        shadowLayer.layer.shadowRadius = 1
        shadowLayer.layer.masksToBounds = true
        shadowLayer.clipsToBounds = false

        self.superview?.addSubview(shadowLayer)
        self.superview?.bringSubviewToFront(self)
    }
}

Answer 5

Exact solution for 2020 syntax

import UIKit
class ColorAndShadowButton: UIButton {
    override init(frame: CGRect) { super.init(frame: frame), common() }
    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) { super.init(coder: aDecoder), common() }
    private func common() {
        // UIButton is tricky: you MUST set the clear bg in bringup;  NOT in layout
        backgroundColor = .clear
        clipsToBounds = false
        self.layer.insertSublayer(backgroundAndShadow, below: layer)
    }
    
   lazy var colorAndShadow: CAShapeLayer = {
        let s = CAShapeLayer()
        // set your button color HERE (NOT on storyboard)
        s.fillColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
        // now set your shadow color/values
        s.shadowColor = UIColor.red.cgColor
        s.shadowOffset = CGSize(width: 0, height: 10)
        s.shadowOpacity = 1
        s.shadowRadius = 10
        // now add the shadow
        layer.insertSublayer(s, at: 0)
        return s
    }()
    
    override func layoutSubviews() {
        super.layoutSubviews()
        // you MUST layout these two EVERY layout cycle:
        colorAndShadow = bounds
        colorAndShadow = UIBezierPath(roundedRect: bounds, cornerRadius: 12).cgPath
    }
}

• Note that the very old top answer here is correct but has a critical error

Note that UIButton is unfortunately quite different from UIView in iOS.

• Due to a strange behavior in iOS, you must set the background color (which of course must be clear in this case) in initialization, not in layout. You could just set it clear in storyboard (but you usually click it to be some solid color simply so you can see it when working in storyboard.)

In general combos of shadows/rounding are a real pain in iOS. Similar solutions:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/57465440/294884 - image + rounded + shadows
https://stackoverflow.com/a/41553784/294884 - two-corner problem
https://stackoverflow.com/a/59092828/294884 - "shadows + hole" or "glowbox" problem
https://stackoverflow.com/a/57400842/294884 - the "border AND gap" problem
https://stackoverflow.com/a/57514286/294884 - basic "adding" beziers

Answer 6

Refactored this to support any view. Subclass your view from this and it should have rounded corners. If you add something like a UIVisualEffectView as a subview to this view you likely need to use the same rounded corners on that UIVisualEffectView or it won't have rounded corners.

/// Inspiration: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25475536/129202
class ViewWithRoundedcornersAndShadow: UIView {
    private var theShadowLayer: CAShapeLayer?

    override func layoutSubviews() {
        super.layoutSubviews()

        if self.theShadowLayer == nil {
            let rounding = CGFloat.init(22.0)

            let shadowLayer = CAShapeLayer.init()
            self.theShadowLayer = shadowLayer
            shadowLayer.path = UIBezierPath.init(roundedRect: bounds, cornerRadius: rounding).cgPath
            shadowLayer.fillColor = UIColor.clear.cgColor

            shadowLayer.shadowPath = shadowLayer.path
            shadowLayer.shadowColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
            shadowLayer.shadowRadius = CGFloat.init(3.0)
            shadowLayer.shadowOpacity = Float.init(0.2)
            shadowLayer.shadowOffset = CGSize.init(width: 0.0, height: 4.0)

            self.layer.insertSublayer(shadowLayer, at: 0)
        }
    }
}