What is the best way to create a shadow behind a UIImageView

Question

I have a UIImageView that I want to add a shadow behind. I wish that apple had that as a property but they have to make lots of things hard for us programmers so I need to a

Answer 1

in additional to that, if you want to make white border and shadow you can use that code :

//shadow part
imageView.layer.shadowColor = [UIColor blackColor].CGColor;
imageView.layer.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0, 1);
imageView.layer.shadowOpacity = 1;
imageView.layer.shadowRadius = 1.0;
//white border part
[imageView.layer setBorderColor: [[UIColor whiteColor] CGColor]];
[imageView.layer setBorderWidth: 2.0];