How to make a drop shadow effect on a label in Swift?

Question

I can't figure out how to code a drop shadow on a label. I have a score label that changes so just photoshopping text with shadows wont be possible. I need to code it so it automatically has a blurry shadow behind the text at all times. Can anyone come with some examples or help?

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People saying this is a duplicate, the "duplicate" is about drop shadows on UIView, mine is about UILabel. It's not the same thing.

Answer 1

Give this a try - you can run it directly in a Playground page:

import UIKit import PlaygroundSupport  let container = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 600, height: 400))  container.backgroundColor = UIColor.lightGray  PlaygroundPage.current.liveView = container  var r = CGRect(x: 40, y: 40, width: 300, height: 60)  let label = UILabel(frame: r) label.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 44.0) label.textColor = .white label.frame = r label.text = "Hello Blur"  container.addSubview(label)  label.layer.shadowColor = UIColor.black.cgColor label.layer.shadowRadius = 3.0 label.layer.shadowOpacity = 1.0 label.layer.shadowOffset = CGSize(width: 4, height: 4) label.layer.masksToBounds = false 

Play around with different values for the shadow Color, Opacity, Radius and Offset

Result: