Is there an easy way to add a border to a view in Xcode for iOS 5.1

With Swift and XCode 6 you can do this.

Click the UIView element in Storyboard, and go to identity inspector. In the user defined runtime attributes, enter:

layer.borderWidth number 1

If you want nice looking corners

layer.cornerRadius number 5
layer.masksToBounds boolean true

Now this will give you a border but to set the colour you need to do it with code. Go to your view controller, and add an IBOutlet from your UIView. Say you do,

@IBOutlet weak var xView: UIView!

Call this in the viewDidLoad function like below to set the colour.

xView.layer.borderColor = UIColor.whiteColor().CGColor

Thanks!