UIView with rounded corners and drop shadow?

Question

I’ve been working on an application for a couple of years and received a simple design request: Round the corners on a UIView and add a drop shadow.To do as given below.

Answer 1

daniel.gindi's answer above did the trick for me! (+1 daniel) However, I had to make minor adjustments - change the shadowFrame size to be same as view's frame size, and enable user interaction. Here's the updated code:

+ (UIView*)putView:(UIView*)view insideShadowWithColor:(UIColor*)color andRadius:(CGFloat)shadowRadius andOffset:(CGSize)shadowOffset andOpacity:(CGFloat)shadowOpacity
{
    CGRect shadowFrame; // Modify this if needed

    // Modified this line
    shadowFrame.size = CGSizeMake(view.frame.size.width, view.frame.size.height);

    shadowFrame.origin.x = 0.f;
    shadowFrame.origin.y = 0.f;
    UIView * shadow = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:shadowFrame];

    // Modified this line
    shadow.userInteractionEnabled = YES;
    shadow.layer.shadowColor = color.CGColor;
    shadow.layer.shadowOffset = shadowOffset;
    shadow.layer.shadowRadius = shadowRadius;
    shadow.layer.masksToBounds = NO;
    shadow.clipsToBounds = NO;
    shadow.layer.shadowOpacity = shadowOpacity;

    [shadow addSubview:view];
    return shadow;
}

I would like to add that in my case, I was trying to add this to a 3rd party view controller, i.e. I did not have direct control over the code. So, here's how I used the function above:

UIView *shadow = [self putView:vc.view 
         insideShadowWithColor:[UIColor blackColor]
                     andRadius:5.0 
                     andOffset:CGSizeMake(0.0, 0.0) 
                    andOpacity:1.0];
vc.view = shadow;
vc.view.layer.cornerRadius = 5.0;
vc.view.layer.masksToBounds = YES;