What's the best way to add a drop shadow to my UIView

Question

I am trying to add a drop shadow to views that are layered on top of one another, the views collapse allowing content in other views to be seen, in this vein i want to keep

Answer 1

The trick is defining the masksToBounds property of your view's layer properly:

view.layer.masksToBounds = NO;

and it should work.

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