How to add shadow to just UIButton border and not to text

Question

Right now I am using this piece of code:

    donorButton.layer.shadowColor = UIColor.red
    donorButton.layer.shadowOffset = CGSize(width: 0, height: 2)
    donorButton.layer.shadowRadius = 2
    donorButton.layer.shadowOpacity = 1.0

And following is the output, whereas I want to get rid of the shadow on the text

Answer 1

In my opinion, there are 2 solutions for your question.

1. If you don't care about button background color, just need to change background color of button to non-transparent color.

   donorButton.backgroundColor = UIColor.white
   

2. If you need a transparent background.

   • Give your button an empty text.
   • Put an UILabel below your button and give it same constraints with your button.
   • Set label.textAlignment = NSTextAlignment.center

Result