IPhone Text Glow Effect

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Ramkumar KS picture Ramkumar KS · Sep 14, 2009 · Viewed 17.4k times · Source

In my IPhone application, I want the text in UILabel to glow for a second, then fade for a sec;. Also i want to repeat this cycle for say 3 or 4 times.

Is this possible?

Answer

IlDan picture IlDan · Jan 20, 2011

As of 3.2 you there is direct support for shadows in the SDK.

label.layer.shadowColor = [label.textColor CGColor];
label.layer.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0.0, 0.0);

Play with the parameters:

label.layer.shadowRadius = 3.0;
label.layer.shadowOpacity = 0.5;

And to avoid shadow being clipped by the label bouds:

label.layer.masksToBounds = NO;

Don't forget to

#include <Quartzcore/Quartzcore.h>

and link against the QuartzCore or CoreGraphics frameworks (thanks to commenters for pointing this out).

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