Is there an easy way to add a border to a view in Xcode for iOS 5.1

Question

I'm looking to have a border around a UIView I have just to separate it from the main view visually.

I have looked in the settings for the UIView in storyboard editor but I can't seem to find anything for setting a border.

Is there an easy way to do this in code?

Answer 1

With Swift and XCode 6 you can do this.

Click the UIView element in Storyboard, and go to identity inspector. In the user defined runtime attributes, enter:

layer.borderWidth number 1 

If you want nice looking corners

layer.cornerRadius number 5 layer.masksToBounds boolean true 

Now this will give you a border but to set the colour you need to do it with code. Go to your view controller, and add an IBOutlet from your UIView. Say you do,

@IBOutlet weak var xView: UIView! 

Call this in the viewDidLoad function like below to set the colour.

xView.layer.borderColor = UIColor.whiteColor().CGColor 

Thanks!