Dashed line border around UIView

Question

How do I add dashed line border around UIView.

Something Like this

Answer 1

Swift solution with custom class worked with autolayout

customized from @Iain Smith

class DashedBorderView: UIView {

    @IBInspectable var cornerRadius: CGFloat = 4
    @IBInspectable var borderColor: UIColor = UIColor.black
    @IBInspectable var dashPaintedSize: Int = 2
    @IBInspectable var dashUnpaintedSize: Int = 2

    let dashedBorder = CAShapeLayer()

    override init(frame: CGRect) {
        super.init(frame: frame)
        commonInit()
    }

    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        super.init(coder: aDecoder)
        commonInit()
    }

    private func commonInit() {
        //custom initialization
        self.layer.addSublayer(dashedBorder)
        applyDashBorder()
    }

    override func layoutSublayers(of layer: CALayer) {
        super.layoutSublayers(of: layer)
        applyDashBorder()
    }

    func applyDashBorder() {
        dashedBorder.strokeColor = borderColor.cgColor
        dashedBorder.lineDashPattern = [NSNumber(value: dashPaintedSize), NSNumber(value: dashUnpaintedSize)]
        dashedBorder.fillColor = nil
        dashedBorder.cornerRadius = cornerRadius
        dashedBorder.path = UIBezierPath(rect: self.bounds).cgPath
        dashedBorder.frame = self.bounds
    }
}

Answer 2

If you want this to work with cornerRadius then try this

tagView.clipsToBounds = YES;
tagView.layer.cornerRadius = 20.0f;
tagView.backgroundColor = [UIColor groupTableViewBackgroundColor];

CAShapeLayer *yourViewBorder = [CAShapeLayer layer];
yourViewBorder.strokeColor = [UIColor blackColor].CGColor;
yourViewBorder.fillColor = nil;
yourViewBorder.lineDashPattern = @[@2, @2];
yourViewBorder.frame = tagView.bounds;

// Create the path for to make circle
UIBezierPath *maskPath = [UIBezierPath bezierPathWithRoundedRect:tagView.bounds
                                               byRoundingCorners:UIRectCornerAllCorners
                                                     cornerRadii:CGSizeMake(20, 20)];


yourViewBorder.path = maskPath.CGPath;

[tagView.layer addSublayer:yourViewBorder];

Answer 3

Here is a UIView subclass that can work for any project, it also works for round views:

import UIKit

class CustomDashedView: UIView {

    @IBInspectable var cornerRadius: CGFloat = 0 {
        didSet {
            layer.cornerRadius = cornerRadius
            layer.masksToBounds = cornerRadius > 0
        }
    }
    @IBInspectable var dashWidth: CGFloat = 0
    @IBInspectable var dashColor: UIColor = .clear
    @IBInspectable var dashLength: CGFloat = 0
    @IBInspectable var betweenDashesSpace: CGFloat = 0

    var dashBorder: CAShapeLayer?

    override func layoutSubviews() {
        super.layoutSubviews()
        dashBorder?.removeFromSuperlayer()
        let dashBorder = CAShapeLayer()
        dashBorder.lineWidth = dashWidth
        dashBorder.strokeColor = dashColor.cgColor
        dashBorder.lineDashPattern = [dashLength, betweenDashesSpace] as [NSNumber]
        dashBorder.frame = bounds
        dashBorder.fillColor = nil
        if cornerRadius > 0 {
            dashBorder.path = UIBezierPath(roundedRect: bounds, cornerRadius: cornerRadius).cgPath
        } else {
            dashBorder.path = UIBezierPath(rect: bounds).cgPath
        }
        layer.addSublayer(dashBorder)
        self.dashBorder = dashBorder
    }
}

This way you can edit from the Storyboard like this:

A pair of results:

Answer 4

You can set the border with this pattern using Layer and Bezier path like below examples.

Objective-C

CAShapeLayer *yourViewBorder = [CAShapeLayer layer];
yourViewBorder.strokeColor = [UIColor blackColor].CGColor;
yourViewBorder.fillColor = nil;
yourViewBorder.lineDashPattern = @[@2, @2];
yourViewBorder.frame = yourView.bounds;
yourViewBorder.path = [UIBezierPath bezierPathWithRect:yourView.bounds].CGPath;
[yourView.layer addSublayer:yourViewBorder];

Swift 3.1

var yourViewBorder = CAShapeLayer()
yourViewBorder.strokeColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
yourViewBorder.lineDashPattern = [2, 2]
yourViewBorder.frame = yourView.bounds
yourViewBorder.fillColor = nil
yourViewBorder.path = UIBezierPath(rect: yourView.bounds).cgPath
yourView.layer.addSublayer(yourViewBorder)

You can also set different types of design using pattern image like below example.

[yourView.layer setBorderWidth:5.0];
[yourView.layer setBorderColor:[[UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"DotedImage.png"]] CGColor]];///just add image name and create image with dashed or doted drawing and add here

Here you've to add <QuartzCore/QuartzCore> framework in the project and import it with below line in YourViewController.m file.

#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>

Answer 5

Use CGContextSetLineDash() method.

CGFloat dashPattern[]= {3.0, 2};

context =UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
CGContextSetRGBStrokeColor(context, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0);
// And draw with a blue fill color
CGContextSetRGBFillColor(context, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0);
// Draw them with a 2.0 stroke width so they are a bit more visible.
CGContextSetLineWidth(context, 4.0);
CGContextSetLineDash(context, 0.0, dashPattern, 2);

CGContextAddRect(context, self.bounds);

// Close the path
CGContextClosePath(context);

CGContextStrokePath(context);

// Fill & stroke the path
CGContextDrawPath(context, kCGPathFillStroke);

I think it will be helpful to you.

Answer 6

Building upon what Prasad G has suggested I created a method inside a UIImage Extras class with the following:

- (CAShapeLayer *) addDashedBorderWithColor: (CGColorRef) color {
    CAShapeLayer *shapeLayer = [CAShapeLayer layer];

    CGSize frameSize = self.size;

    CGRect shapeRect = CGRectMake(0.0f, 0.0f, frameSize.width, frameSize.height);
    [shapeLayer setBounds:shapeRect];
    [shapeLayer setPosition:CGPointMake( frameSize.width/2,frameSize.height/2)];

    [shapeLayer setFillColor:[[UIColor clearColor] CGColor]];
    [shapeLayer setStrokeColor:color];
    [shapeLayer setLineWidth:5.0f];
    [shapeLayer setLineJoin:kCALineJoinRound];
    [shapeLayer setLineDashPattern:
     [NSArray arrayWithObjects:[NSNumber numberWithInt:10],
      [NSNumber numberWithInt:5],
      nil]];
    UIBezierPath *path = [UIBezierPath bezierPathWithRoundedRect:shapeRect cornerRadius:15.0];
    [shapeLayer setPath:path.CGPath];

    return shapeLayer;
}

It's important to point out that if you define your shape's position as (0,0), the bottom corner of the border will be placed in the center of the image, that's why I set it to: (frameSize.width/2,frameSize.height/2)

I then use my method to get the dashed border using the UIImage of my UIImageView and add the CAShapeLayer as a sublayer of the UIImageView layer:

[myImageView.layer addSublayer:[myImageView.image addDashedBorderWithColor:[[UIColor whiteColor] CGColor]]];