Draw shadow only from 3 sides of UIView

Question

I\'ve successfully implemented drawing a shadow around my UIView like this:

block1.layer.masksToBounds = NO;
block1.layer.shadowOffset = CGSizeM         


        

Answer 1

Updating Ryan Poolos Answer to Swift 3.0

Thanks to Ryan Poolos

class sampleViewController: UIViewController {
    var block1: UIView! = nil

    override func viewDidLoad() {

        super.viewDidLoad()
        block1 = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 32.0, y: 32.0, width: 128.0, height: 128.0))
        block1.backgroundColor = UIColor.orange
        self.view.addSubview(block1)

        block1.layer.masksToBounds = false
        block1.layer.shadowOffset = CGSize(width: 0.0, height: 0.0)
        block1.layer.shadowRadius = 1.0
        block1.layer.shadowOpacity = 0.7

        let path = UIBezierPath()

        // Start at the Top Left Corner
        path.move(to: CGPoint(x: 0.0, y: 0.0))

        // Move to the Top Right Corner
        path.addLine(to: CGPoint(x: block1.frame.size.width, y: 0.0))

        // Move to the Bottom Right Corner
        path.addLine(to: CGPoint(x: block1.frame.size.width, y: block1.frame.size.height))

        // This is the extra point in the middle :) Its the secret sauce.
        path.addLine(to: CGPoint(x: block1.frame.size.width/2.0, y: block1.frame.size.height/2.0))

        // Move to the Bottom Left Corner
        path.addLine(to: CGPoint(x: 0.0, y: block1.frame.size.height))

        path.close()

        block1.layer.shadowPath = path.cgPath
    }
}

Result: