Add text to CALayer

Question

Is it possible to add a UILabel to a CALayer without subclassing and drawing it in drawInContext:?

Thanks!

Answer 1

The answers below are fine, just make sure you add otherwise you text will be blurry:

textLayer.contentsScale = UIScreen.main.scale

Final code for Swift:

let textLayer = CATextLayer()
textLayer.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 60, height: 15)
textLayer.fontSize = 12
textLayer.string = "my text"
textLayer.foregroundColor = UIColor.red.cgColor
textLayer.contentsScale = UIScreen.main.scale