Any method to get layer's parent view?

Question

Yes, you read it right "layer's parent view". I'm not sure if its the right term to use but what I mean is, I have a layer added as sublayer of a view. I wanted to know if there is any way to get the view from the layer.

Answer 1

This question is quite old, but accessing CALayer's parent view is easy as:

layer.delegate

If you look into a debugger, you'll see that the delegate property is populated with the UIView containing the Layer, and if not, you can recursively check until you get the main CALayer directly hosted in the view.

Source: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/quartzcore/calayer/1410984-delegate

Answer 2

You can perform this using KVC.

UIView *View1=[UIView new];
View1.tag=1;
[View1.layer setValue:View1 forKey:@"LayerObject"];

UIView *View2=[UIView new];
View2.tag=2;
[View2.layer setValue:View2 forKey:@"LayerObject"];

NSLog(@"Your Layers superView = %@",[View2.layer.superlayer valueForKey:@"LayerObject"]);

This will return your layer's parent View.