This is a tricky one. UIView
‘s clipsToBounds
is necessary to get the rounded corners. But CALayer
‘s masksToBounds
has to be false
so the shadow is visible. Somehow, everything works if drawRect
is not overridden, but actually it shouldn’t.
The solution is to create a superview to provide the shadow (in the demonstration below this is the shadowView
). You can test the following in Playground:
class MyView : UIView {
override func drawRect(rect: CGRect) {
let c = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()
CGContextAddRect(c, CGRectMake(10, 10, 80, 80))
CGContextSetStrokeColorWithColor(c , UIColor.redColor().CGColor)
CGContextStrokePath(c)
}
}
let superview = UIView(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, 200, 200))
let shadowView = UIView(frame: CGRectMake(50, 50, 100, 100))
shadowView.layer.shadowColor = UIColor.blackColor().CGColor
shadowView.layer.shadowOffset = CGSizeZero
shadowView.layer.shadowOpacity = 0.5
shadowView.layer.shadowRadius = 5
let view = MyView(frame: shadowView.bounds)
view.backgroundColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
view.layer.cornerRadius = 10.0
view.layer.borderColor = UIColor.grayColor().CGColor
view.layer.borderWidth = 0.5
view.clipsToBounds = true
shadowView.addSubview(view)
superview.addSubview(shadowView)
Result: