Adding rounded corner and drop shadow to UICollectionViewCell

Question

So I already went through various posts on adding 2nd view for adding shadow, but I still cannot get it to work if I want to add it in UICollectionViewCell. I s

Answer 1

The answer of Mike Sabatini works fine, if you configure the cell properties directly on the collectionView cellForItemAt, but if you try to set them in awakeFromNib() of a custom UICollectionViewCell subclass, you will end with a wrong bezierPath set on the devices that doesn't match the width and height previously set in your Storyboard (IB).

Solution for me was create a func inside the subclass of UICollectionViewCell and calling it from the cellForItemAt like this:

func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, cellForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell {
    if let cell = collectionView.dequeueReusableCell(withReuseIdentifier: "cellID", for: indexPath) as? CustomCollectionViewCell{
        cell.configure())
        return cell
    }
    else {
        return UICollectionViewCell()
    }
}

And on the CustomCollectionViewCell.swift :

class CustomCollectionViewCell: UICollectionViewCell{
    func configure() {
    contentView.layer.cornerRadius = 20
    contentView.layer.borderWidth = 1.0
    contentView.layer.borderColor = UIColor.clear.cgColor
    contentView.layer.masksToBounds = true
    layer.shadowColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
    layer.shadowOffset = CGSize(width: 0, height: 2.0)
    layer.shadowRadius = 2.0
    layer.shadowOpacity = 0.5
    layer.masksToBounds = false
    layer.shadowPath = UIBezierPath(roundedRect: bounds, cornerRadius: contentView.layer.cornerRadius).cgPath}
 }