Dashed line border around UIView

Question

Another method if you like sublayers. In your custom view's init, put this (_border is an ivar):

_border = [CAShapeLayer layer];
_border.strokeColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:67/255.0f green:37/255.0f blue:83/255.0f alpha:1].CGColor;
_border.fillColor = nil;
_border.lineDashPattern = @[@4, @2];
[self.layer addSublayer:_border];

And in your layoutsubviews, put this:

_border.path = [UIBezierPath bezierPathWithRect:self.bounds].CGPath;
_border.frame = self.bounds;

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>

For those of you working in Swift, this class extension on UIView makes it easy. This was based on sunshineDev's answer.

extension UIView {
  func addDashedBorder() {
    let color = UIColor.red.cgColor

    let shapeLayer:CAShapeLayer = CAShapeLayer()
    let frameSize = self.frame.size
    let shapeRect = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: frameSize.width, height: frameSize.height)

    shapeLayer.bounds = shapeRect
    shapeLayer.position = CGPoint(x: frameSize.width/2, y: frameSize.height/2)
    shapeLayer.fillColor = UIColor.clear.cgColor
    shapeLayer.strokeColor = color
    shapeLayer.lineWidth = 2
    shapeLayer.lineJoin = CAShapeLayerLineJoin.round
    shapeLayer.lineDashPattern = [6,3]
    shapeLayer.path = UIBezierPath(roundedRect: shapeRect, cornerRadius: 5).cgPath

    self.layer.addSublayer(shapeLayer)
    }
}

To use it:

anyView.addDashedBorder()

Swift 3:

import UIKit

class UIViewWithDashedLineBorder: UIView {

    override func draw(_ rect: CGRect) {

        let path = UIBezierPath(roundedRect: rect, cornerRadius: 0)

        UIColor.purple.setFill()
        path.fill()

        UIColor.orange.setStroke()
        path.lineWidth = 5

        let dashPattern : [CGFloat] = [10, 4]
        path.setLineDash(dashPattern, count: 2, phase: 0)
        path.stroke()
    }
}

Use in a storyboard (as custom class) or directly in code:

let v = UIViewWithDashedLineBorder(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 100, height: 100))

Result:

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: