Adding rounded corner and drop shadow to UICollectionViewCell

Question

So I already went through various posts on adding 2nd view for adding shadow, but I still cannot get it to work if I want to add it in UICollectionViewCell. I subclassed UICollectionViewCell, and here is my code where I add various UI elements to the cell's content view and adding shadow to the layer:

[self.contentView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];

self.layer.masksToBounds = NO;
self.layer.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0, 1);
self.layer.shadowRadius = 1.0;
self.layer.shadowColor = [UIColor blackColor].CGColor;
self.layer.shadowOpacity = 0.5;
[self.layer setShadowPath:[[UIBezierPath bezierPathWithRect:self.bounds] CGPath]];

I would like to know how to add rounded corner and shadow to UICollectionViewCell.

Answer 1

Neither of these solutions worked for me. If you place all your subviews into the UICollectionViewCell content view, which you probably are, you can set the shadow on the cell's layer and the border on the contentView's layer to achieve both results.

cell.contentView.layer.cornerRadius = 2.0f;
cell.contentView.layer.borderWidth = 1.0f;
cell.contentView.layer.borderColor = [UIColor clearColor].CGColor;
cell.contentView.layer.masksToBounds = YES;

cell.layer.shadowColor = [UIColor blackColor].CGColor;
cell.layer.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0, 2.0f);
cell.layer.shadowRadius = 2.0f;
cell.layer.shadowOpacity = 0.5f;
cell.layer.masksToBounds = NO;
cell.layer.shadowPath = [UIBezierPath bezierPathWithRoundedRect:cell.bounds cornerRadius:cell.contentView.layer.cornerRadius].CGPath;

Swift 3.0

self.contentView.layer.cornerRadius = 2.0
self.contentView.layer.borderWidth = 1.0
self.contentView.layer.borderColor = UIColor.clear.cgColor
self.contentView.layer.masksToBounds = true

self.layer.shadowColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
self.layer.shadowOffset = CGSize(width: 0, height: 2.0)
self.layer.shadowRadius = 2.0
self.layer.shadowOpacity = 0.5
self.layer.masksToBounds = false
self.layer.shadowPath = UIBezierPath(roundedRect: self.bounds, cornerRadius: self.contentView.layer.cornerRadius).cgPath