UIView with shadow, rounded corners and custom drawRect

Question

I have to create a custom UIView that will have round corners, a border, a shadow and its drawRect() method is overridden to provide custom drawing

Answer 1

The solution seems much easier than the problem might suggest. I had this with one of my views and used the core part of @Hodit's answer to get it to work. This is all you need actually:

- (void) drawRect:(CGRect)rect {
    // make sure the background is set to a transparent color using IB or code
    // e.g.: self.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor]; 

    // draw a rounded rect in the view
    [[UIColor whiteColor] setFill];
    [[UIBezierPath bezierPathWithRoundedRect:self.bounds cornerRadius:5.0] fill];

    // apply shadow if you haven't already
    self.layer.masksToBounds = NO;
    self.layer.shadowColor = [[UIColor blackColor] CGColor];
    self.layer.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0.0,3.0);
    self.layer.shadowRadius= 1.0;
    self.layer.shadowOpacity = 0.1;

    // more code here

}

Note that this doesn't clip subviews. Anything positioned at 0,0 in the view will overlap the visible top left rounded corner.