Resizing a UILabel to accommodate insets

Question

I\'m building a screen to scan barcodes, and I need to put a translucent screen behind some UILabels to improve visibility against light backgrounds.

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Answer 1

In additions to Nikolai Ruhe's answer, you need to invalidate intrinsic content size for autolayout to properly recalculate the size changes. You would notice this issue if you change edgeInsets over the application lifecycle:

class NRLabel: UILabel {

    var edgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsZero {
        didSet {
            self.invalidateIntrinsicContentSize()
        }
    }

    ...
}