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

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