Uiview with Shadow, Rounded Corners and Custom Drawrect

UIView with shadow, rounded corners and custom drawRect

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:

UIView with rounded corners and drop shadow?

The following code snippet adds a border, border radius, and drop shadow to v, a UIView:

// border radius
[v.layer setCornerRadius:30.0f];

// border
[v.layer setBorderColor:[UIColor lightGrayColor].CGColor];
[v.layer setBorderWidth:1.5f];

// drop shadow
[v.layer setShadowColor:[UIColor blackColor].CGColor];
[v.layer setShadowOpacity:0.8];
[v.layer setShadowRadius:3.0];
[v.layer setShadowOffset:CGSizeMake(2.0, 2.0)];

Swift 5 Version :

// border radius
v.layer.cornerRadius = 30.0

// border
v.layer.borderColor = UIColor.lightGray.cgColor
v.layer.borderWidth = 1.5

// drop shadow
v.layer.shadowColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
v.layer.shadowOpacity = 0.8
v.layer.shadowRadius = 3.0
v.layer.shadowOffset = CGSize(width: 2.0, height: 2.0)

You can adjust the settings to suit your needs.

Also, add the QuartzCore framework to your project and:

#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>

See my other answer regarding masksToBounds.

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Note

This may not work in all cases. If you find that this method interferes with other drawing operations that you are performing, please see this answer.

How to add inner shadow to UIView with rounded corners

It's a trick. You give shadow and border to same view, the shadow will fall inside the view. please make sure the background color of view is clear. use the below code for reference.

yourView.layer.shadowColor = UIColor.gray.cgColor
yourView.layer.shadowOpacity = 0.3
yourView.layer.shadowOffset = CGSize.zero
yourView.layer.shadowRadius = 6
yourView.layer.masksToBounds = true
yourView.layer.borderWidth = 1.5
yourView.layer.borderColor = UIColor.white.cgColor
yourView.layer.cornerRadius = imageView.bounds.width / 2

UIView with rounded rectangle and drop shadow: shadow appears above rectangle

I don't think you can do this in a single pass. Hmm I changed your code as follows, which seems to work.

- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect
{
    // get the contect
    CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();

    //now draw the rounded rectangle
    CGContextSetStrokeColorWithColor(context, [[UIColor blackColor] CGColor]);
    CGContextSetRGBFillColor(context, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0);

    //since I need room in my rect for the shadow, make the rounded rectangle a little smaller than frame
    CGRect rrect = CGRectMake(CGRectGetMinX(rect), CGRectGetMinY(rect), CGRectGetWidth(rect)-30, CGRectGetHeight(rect)-30);
    CGFloat radius = 45;
    // the rest is pretty much copied from Apples example
    CGFloat minx = CGRectGetMinX(rrect), midx = CGRectGetMidX(rrect), maxx = CGRectGetMaxX(rrect);
    CGFloat miny = CGRectGetMinY(rrect), midy = CGRectGetMidY(rrect), maxy = CGRectGetMaxY(rrect);

    {
        //for the shadow, save the state then draw the shadow
        CGContextSaveGState(context);

        // Start at 1
        CGContextMoveToPoint(context, minx, midy);
        // Add an arc through 2 to 3
        CGContextAddArcToPoint(context, minx, miny, midx, miny, radius);
        // Add an arc through 4 to 5
        CGContextAddArcToPoint(context, maxx, miny, maxx, midy, radius);
        // Add an arc through 6 to 7
        CGContextAddArcToPoint(context, maxx, maxy, midx, maxy, radius);
        // Add an arc through 8 to 9
        CGContextAddArcToPoint(context, minx, maxy, minx, midy, radius);
        // Close the path
        CGContextClosePath(context);

        CGContextSetShadow(context, CGSizeMake(4,-5), 10);
        CGContextSetStrokeColorWithColor(context, [[UIColor blackColor] CGColor]);

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

        //for the shadow
        CGContextRestoreGState(context);
    }

    {
        // Start at 1
        CGContextMoveToPoint(context, minx, midy);
        // Add an arc through 2 to 3
        CGContextAddArcToPoint(context, minx, miny, midx, miny, radius);
        // Add an arc through 4 to 5
        CGContextAddArcToPoint(context, maxx, miny, maxx, midy, radius);
        // Add an arc through 6 to 7
        CGContextAddArcToPoint(context, maxx, maxy, midx, maxy, radius);
        // Add an arc through 8 to 9
        CGContextAddArcToPoint(context, minx, maxy, minx, midy, radius);
        // Close the path
        CGContextClosePath(context);

        CGContextSetStrokeColorWithColor(context, [[UIColor blackColor] CGColor]);
        CGContextSetRGBFillColor(context, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0);       

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

UIView Round Corners with Shadow

Create two views.
one with the drop shadow (and don't forget to set the shadowPath)
in which you add a subview with cornerRadius and maskToBounds.

Adding shadow layer with rounded corners on custom UIButton subclass

Try also setting the .cornerRadius on the gradient layer:

    gradientLayer.endPoint = CGPoint(x: 0.75, y: 0.5)

    // add this line        
    gradientLayer.cornerRadius = 8

    layer.insertSublayer(gradientLayer, at: 0)

My result:

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