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

This is my solution. If you have multiple type of views like UIView, UIControl, UITableView and so on, and don't want to make subclasses of each of them, or you want to add this effect with smallest changes to your code, then this might be what you are looking for.

Objective-C.h

#import 

@interface UIView (CornerAndShadow)

- (void)setCornerAndShadow;

@end

Objective-C.m

#import "UIView+CornerAndShadow.h"
#import 

@implementation UIView (CornerAndShadow)

- (void)setCornerAndShadow {
    // constants
    CGFloat fCornerRadius = 9.f;

    // only work for views with superview
    if (self.superview == nil) {
        return;
    }

    // set corner
    self.layer.cornerRadius = fCornerRadius;
    self.layer.masksToBounds = YES;

    // create and configure shadowView
    UIView *shadowView = [UIView new];
    shadowView.backgroundColor = self.backgroundColor; // just to make shadow visible
    shadowView.layer.cornerRadius = fCornerRadius;
    shadowView.layer.shadowColor = [UIColor redColor].CGColor;
    shadowView.layer.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0, 3.f);
    shadowView.layer.shadowOpacity = 0.5f;
    shadowView.layer.shadowRadius = 5.f;

    // put shadowView into superview right below self
    [self.superview insertSubview:shadowView belowSubview:self];

    // set shadowView's frame equal to self
    [shadowView mas_makeConstraints:^(MASConstraintMaker *make) {
        make.edges.equalTo(self);
    }];
    // use this if you're not using autolayout, and can get real frame here
    // shadowView.frame = self.frame;
}

@end