How can I make a button have a rounded border in Swift?

Question

I\'m building an app using swift in the latest version of Xcode 6, and would like to know how I can modify my button so that it can have a rounded border that I could adjust mys

Answer 1

You can subclass UIButton and add @IBInspectable variables to it so you can configure the custom button parameters via the StoryBoard "Attribute Inspector". Below I write down that code.

@IBDesignable
class BHButton: UIButton {

    /*
    // Only override draw() if you perform custom drawing.
    // An empty implementation adversely affects performance during animation.
    override func draw(_ rect: CGRect) {
        // Drawing code
    }
    */

    @IBInspectable lazy var isRoundRectButton : Bool = false

    @IBInspectable public var cornerRadius : CGFloat = 0.0 {
        didSet{
            setUpView()
        }
    }

    @IBInspectable public var borderColor : UIColor = UIColor.clear {
        didSet {
            self.layer.borderColor = borderColor.cgColor
        }
    }

    @IBInspectable public var borderWidth : CGFloat = 0.0 {
        didSet {
            self.layer.borderWidth = borderWidth
        }
    }

    //  MARK:   Awake From Nib

    override func awakeFromNib() {
        super.awakeFromNib()
        setUpView()
    }

    override func prepareForInterfaceBuilder() {
        super.prepareForInterfaceBuilder()
        setUpView()
    }

    func setUpView() {
        if isRoundRectButton {
            self.layer.cornerRadius = self.bounds.height/2;
            self.clipsToBounds = true
        }
        else{
            self.layer.cornerRadius = self.cornerRadius;
            self.clipsToBounds = true
        }
    }

}

Answer 2

I think the easiest and the cleanest way, is to use protocol to avoid inherit and code repetition. You can change this properties directly from storyboard

protocol Traceable {
    var cornerRadius: CGFloat { get set }
    var borderColor: UIColor? { get set }
    var borderWidth: CGFloat { get set }
}

extension UIView: Traceable {

    @IBInspectable var cornerRadius: CGFloat {
        get { return layer.cornerRadius }
        set {
            layer.masksToBounds = true
            layer.cornerRadius = newValue
        }
    }

    @IBInspectable var borderColor: UIColor? {
        get {
            guard let cgColor = layer.borderColor else { return nil }
            return  UIColor(cgColor: cgColor)
        }
        set { layer.borderColor = newValue?.cgColor }
    }

    @IBInspectable var borderWidth: CGFloat {
        get { return layer.borderWidth }
        set { layer.borderWidth = newValue }
    }
}

Update

In this link you can find an example with the utility of Traceable protocol

Answer 3

I have created a simple UIButton sublcass that uses the tintColor for its text and border colours and when highlighted changes its background to the tintColor.

class BorderedButton: UIButton {

required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
    super.init(coder: aDecoder)
    layer.borderWidth = 1.0
    layer.borderColor = tintColor.CGColor
    layer.cornerRadius = 5.0
    clipsToBounds = true
    contentEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 8, left: 8, bottom: 8, right: 8)
    setTitleColor(tintColor, forState: .Normal)
    setTitleColor(UIColor.whiteColor(), forState: .Highlighted)
    setBackgroundImage(UIImage(color: tintColor), forState: .Highlighted)
}
}

This makes use of a UIImage extension that creates an image from a colour, I found that code here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33675160

It works best when set to type Custom in interface builder as the default System type slightly modifies the colours when the button is highlighted.

Answer 4

Use button.layer.cornerRadius, button.layer.borderColor and button.layer.borderWidth. Note that borderColor requires a CGColor, so you could say (Swift 3/4):

button.backgroundColor = .clear
button.layer.cornerRadius = 5
button.layer.borderWidth = 1
button.layer.borderColor = UIColor.black.cgColor

Answer 5

This class is based from all the comments and suggestions in answers, and also can be designable directly from xcode. Copy to your project and insert any UIButton and change to use custom class, now just select border or background color from xcode for normal and/or highlighted states.

//
//  RoundedButton.swift
//

import UIKit

@IBDesignable
class RoundedButton:UIButton {

    @IBInspectable var borderWidth: CGFloat = 0 {
        didSet {
            layer.borderWidth = borderWidth
        }
    }
    //Normal state bg and border
    @IBInspectable var normalBorderColor: UIColor? {
        didSet {
            layer.borderColor = normalBorderColor?.CGColor
        }
    }

    @IBInspectable var normalBackgroundColor: UIColor? {
        didSet {
            setBgColorForState(normalBackgroundColor, forState: .Normal)
        }
    }


    //Highlighted state bg and border
    @IBInspectable var highlightedBorderColor: UIColor?

    @IBInspectable var highlightedBackgroundColor: UIColor? {
        didSet {
            setBgColorForState(highlightedBackgroundColor, forState: .Highlighted)
        }
    }


    private func setBgColorForState(color: UIColor?, forState: UIControlState){
        if color != nil {
            setBackgroundImage(UIImage.imageWithColor(color!), forState: forState)

        } else {
            setBackgroundImage(nil, forState: forState)
        }
    }

    override func layoutSubviews() {
        super.layoutSubviews()

        layer.cornerRadius = layer.frame.height / 2
        clipsToBounds = true

        if borderWidth > 0 {
            if state == .Normal && !CGColorEqualToColor(layer.borderColor, normalBorderColor?.CGColor) {
                layer.borderColor = normalBorderColor?.CGColor
            } else if state == .Highlighted && highlightedBorderColor != nil{
                layer.borderColor = highlightedBorderColor!.CGColor
            }
        }
    }

}

//Extension Required by RoundedButton to create UIImage from UIColor
extension UIImage {
    class func imageWithColor(color: UIColor) -> UIImage {
        let rect: CGRect = CGRectMake(0, 0, 1, 1)
        UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(CGSizeMake(1, 1), false, 1.0)
        color.setFill()
        UIRectFill(rect)
        let image: UIImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
        UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
        return image
    }
}

Answer 6

@IBOutlet weak var yourButton: UIButton! {
    didSet{
        yourButton.backgroundColor = .clear
        yourButton.layer.cornerRadius = 10
        yourButton.layer.borderWidth = 2
        yourButton.layer.borderColor = UIColor.white.cgColor
    }
}