How do I remove the outside border of a segmented control? I've set the divider image to what I wanted but now to follow the mock of my app I need to have a segmented control without the outer border.
What you must understand is the backgroundColor
property is not stateful.
Hence you have to use setBackgroundImage(_:for:barMetrics:)
.
We can easily remove both borders and dividers using the below function.
For Swift 3 & 4+:
extension UISegmentedControl {
func removeBorders() {
setBackgroundImage(imageWithColor(color: backgroundColor ?? .clear), for: .normal, barMetrics: .default)
setBackgroundImage(imageWithColor(color: tintColor!), for: .selected, barMetrics: .default)
setDividerImage(imageWithColor(color: UIColor.clear), forLeftSegmentState: .normal, rightSegmentState: .normal, barMetrics: .default)
}
// create a 1x1 image with this color
private func imageWithColor(color: UIColor) -> UIImage {
let rect = CGRect(x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: 1.0, height: 1.0)
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rect.size)
let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()
context!.setFillColor(color.cgColor);
context!.fill(rect);
let image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
return image!
}
}
For Swift 2.2:
extension UISegmentedControl {
func removeBorders() {
setBackgroundImage(imageWithColor(backgroundColor!), forState: .Normal, barMetrics: .Default)
setBackgroundImage(imageWithColor(tintColor!), forState: .Selected, barMetrics: .Default)
setDividerImage(imageWithColor(UIColor.clearColor()), forLeftSegmentState: .Normal, rightSegmentState: .Normal, barMetrics: .Default)
}
// create a 1x1 image with this color
private func imageWithColor(color: UIColor) -> UIImage {
let rect = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0)
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rect.size)
let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()
CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(context, color.CGColor);
CGContextFillRect(context, rect);
let image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
return image
}
}
Call the above function.
segmentedControl.removeBorders()
Reference: Remove UISegmentedControl separators completely. (iphone)
Thanks to https://stackoverflow.com/users/3921490/amagain for Swift 3 version.