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

You need to use two UIViews to achieve this. One UIView will work like shadow and other one will work for rounded border.

Here is a code snippet a Class Method with a help of a protocol:

@implementation UIMethods

+ (UIView *)genComposeButton:(UIViewController  *)observer;
{
    UIView *shadow = [[UIView alloc]init];
    shadow.layer.cornerRadius = 5.0;
    shadow.layer.shadowColor = [[UIColor blackColor] CGColor];
    shadow.layer.shadowOpacity = 1.0;
    shadow.layer.shadowRadius = 10.0;
    shadow.layer.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0.0f, -0.5f);

    UIButton *btnCompose = [[UIButton alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0,60, 60)];
    [btnCompose setUserInteractionEnabled:YES];
    btnCompose.layer.cornerRadius = 30;
    btnCompose.layer.masksToBounds = YES;
    [btnCompose setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"60x60"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
    [btnCompose addTarget:observer action:@selector(btnCompose_click:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
    [shadow addSubview:btnCompose];
    return shadow;
}

In the code above btnCompose_click: will become a @required delegate method which will fire on the button click.

And here I added a button to my UIViewController like this:

UIView *btnCompose = [UIMethods genComposeButton:self];
btnCompose.frame = CGRectMake(self.view.frame.size.width - 75,
                          self.view.frame.size.height - 75,
                          60, 60);
[self.view addSubview:btnCompose];

The result will look like this: