UIView with rounded corners and drop shadow?

Question

I’ve been working on an application for a couple of years and received a simple design request: Round the corners on a UIView and add a drop shadow.To do as given below.

Answer 1

import UIKit

extension UIView {

    func addShadow(shadowColor: UIColor, offSet: CGSize, opacity: Float, shadowRadius: CGFloat, cornerRadius: CGFloat, corners: UIRectCorner, fillColor: UIColor = .white) {

        let shadowLayer = CAShapeLayer()
        let size = CGSize(width: cornerRadius, height: cornerRadius)
        let cgPath = UIBezierPath(roundedRect: self.bounds, byRoundingCorners: corners, cornerRadii: size).cgPath //1
        shadowLayer.path = cgPath //2
        shadowLayer.fillColor = fillColor.cgColor //3
        shadowLayer.shadowColor = shadowColor.cgColor //4
        shadowLayer.shadowPath = cgPath
        shadowLayer.shadowOffset = offSet //5
        shadowLayer.shadowOpacity = opacity
        shadowLayer.shadowRadius = shadowRadius
        self.layer.addSublayer(shadowLayer)
    }
}

Answer 2

Swift 3 & IBInspectable solution:
Inspired by Ade's solution

First, create an UIView extension:

//
//  UIView-Extension.swift
//  

import Foundation
import UIKit

@IBDesignable
extension UIView {
     // Shadow
     @IBInspectable var shadow: Bool {
          get {
               return layer.shadowOpacity > 0.0
          }
          set {
               if newValue == true {
                    self.addShadow()
               }
          }
     }

     fileprivate func addShadow(shadowColor: CGColor = UIColor.black.cgColor, shadowOffset: CGSize = CGSize(width: 3.0, height: 3.0), shadowOpacity: Float = 0.35, shadowRadius: CGFloat = 5.0) {
          let layer = self.layer
          layer.masksToBounds = false

          layer.shadowColor = shadowColor
          layer.shadowOffset = shadowOffset
          layer.shadowRadius = shadowRadius
          layer.shadowOpacity = shadowOpacity
          layer.shadowPath = UIBezierPath(roundedRect: layer.bounds, cornerRadius: layer.cornerRadius).cgPath

          let backgroundColor = self.backgroundColor?.cgColor
          self.backgroundColor = nil
          layer.backgroundColor =  backgroundColor
     }


     // Corner radius
     @IBInspectable var circle: Bool {
          get {
               return layer.cornerRadius == self.bounds.width*0.5
          }
          set {
               if newValue == true {
                    self.cornerRadius = self.bounds.width*0.5
               }
          }
     }

     @IBInspectable var cornerRadius: CGFloat {
          get {
               return self.layer.cornerRadius
          }

          set {
               self.layer.cornerRadius = newValue
          }
     }


     // Borders
     // Border width
     @IBInspectable
     public var borderWidth: CGFloat {
          set {
               layer.borderWidth = newValue
          }

          get {
               return layer.borderWidth
          }
     }

     // Border color
     @IBInspectable
     public var borderColor: UIColor? {
          set {
               layer.borderColor = newValue?.cgColor
          }

          get {
               if let borderColor = layer.borderColor {
                    return UIColor(cgColor: borderColor)
               }
               return nil
          }
     }
}

Then, simply select your UIView in interface builder setting shadow ON and corner radius, like below:

The result!

Answer 3

Swift 4 : Create Subclass of UIView

class ShadowView: UIView {

    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        super.init(coder: aDecoder)

        // corner radius
        self.layer.cornerRadius = 10

        // border
        self.layer.borderWidth = 1.0
        self.layer.borderColor = UIColor.black.cgColor

        // shadow
        self.layer.shadowColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
        self.layer.shadowOffset = CGSize(width: 3, height: 3)
        self.layer.shadowOpacity = 0.7
        self.layer.shadowRadius = 4.0
    }

}

Using..

Answer 4

I've created a helper on UIView

@interface UIView (Helper)

- (void)roundCornerswithRadius:(float)cornerRadius
               andShadowOffset:(float)shadowOffset;
@end

you can call it like this

[self.view roundCornerswithRadius:5 andShadowOffset:5];

Here's the implementation

- (void)roundCornerswithRadius:(float)cornerRadius
               andShadowOffset:(float)shadowOffset
{
    const float CORNER_RADIUS = cornerRadius;
    const float SHADOW_OFFSET = shadowOffset;
    const float SHADOW_OPACITY = 0.5;
    const float SHADOW_RADIUS = 3.0;

    UIView *superView = self.superview;

    CGRect oldBackgroundFrame = self.frame;
    [self removeFromSuperview];

    CGRect frameForShadowView = CGRectMake(0, 0, oldBackgroundFrame.size.width, oldBackgroundFrame.size.height);
    UIView *shadowView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:frameForShadowView];
    [shadowView.layer setShadowOpacity:SHADOW_OPACITY];
    [shadowView.layer setShadowRadius:SHADOW_RADIUS];
    [shadowView.layer setShadowOffset:CGSizeMake(SHADOW_OFFSET, SHADOW_OFFSET)];

    [self.layer setCornerRadius:CORNER_RADIUS];
    [self.layer setMasksToBounds:YES];

    [shadowView addSubview:self];
    [superView addSubview:shadowView];

}

Answer 5

You need to use use shadowView and roundView

shadowView

• Must has background color
• Should lay behind roundView
• The trick is to layout shadowView a bit inside, and its shadow needs to glow out. Adjust the insets so that shadowView is completely invisible behind roundView

roundView

• Must clips subviews

The code

addSubviews(shadowView, roundView)
roundView.addSubviews(titleLabel, subtitleLabel, imageView)

// need inset
shadowView.pinEdges(view: self, inset: UIEdgeInsets(constraintInsets: 2))
roundView.pinEdges(view: self)

do {
  shadowView.backgroundColor = .white // need background
  let layer = shadowView.layer
  layer.shadowColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
  layer.shadowRadius = 3
  layer.shadowOffset = CGSize(width: 3, height: 3)
  layer.shadowOpacity = 0.7
  layer.shouldRasterize = true
}

do {
  roundView.backgroundColor = .white
  let layer = roundView.layer
  layer.masksToBounds = true
  layer.cornerRadius = 5
}

Or you can just do below without specifying clipToBounds/maskToBounds

layer.shadowColor = UIColor.gray.cgColor
layer.shadowOffset = CGSize(width: 3, height: 3)
layer.shadowOpacity = 0.8

Answer 6

Old thread still current...

I've edited Daniel Gindi's method to make it possible to use it with buttons etc. as well. If anyone needs rounded corners or wants to combine round corners and a border it has to be set on the view's layer which is passed to this method. I've also set the rasterization to speed it up a little.

+ (UIView*)putView:(UIView*)view insideShadowWithColor:(CGColorRef)color 
                                 andRadius:(CGFloat)shadowRadius 
                                 andOffset:(CGSize)shadowOffset 
                                 andOpacity:(CGFloat)shadowOpacity
{
    // Must have same position like "view"
    UIView *shadow = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:view.frame]; 

    shadow.layer.contentsScale = [UIScreen mainScreen].scale;
    shadow.userInteractionEnabled = YES; // Modify this if needed
    shadow.layer.shadowColor = color;
    shadow.layer.shadowOffset = shadowOffset;
    shadow.layer.shadowRadius = shadowRadius;
    shadow.layer.masksToBounds = NO;
    shadow.clipsToBounds = NO;
    shadow.layer.shadowOpacity = shadowOpacity;
    shadow.layer.rasterizationScale = [UIScreen mainScreen].scale;
    shadow.layer.shouldRasterize = YES;

    [view.superview insertSubview:shadow belowSubview:view];
    [shadow addSubview:view];

    // Move view to the top left corner inside the shadowview 
    // ---> Buttons etc are working again :)
    view.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, view.frame.size.width, view.frame.size.height);

    return shadow;
}