How to add shadow only to top and bottom to UIVIEW in swift - ios

Question

I am new in swift and I am trying to add shadow to UIView.
My code is like this
ViewPay.layer.masksToBounds = false
ViewPay.layer.shadowRadius = 2
ViewPay.layer.shadowOpacity = 1
ViewPay.layer.shadowColor = UIColor.red.cgColor
ViewPay.layer.shadowOffset = CGSize(width: 0 , height:2)
but it is adding shadow to all side
How can I add shadow like this

Answer 1

One solution is, put your ViewPay inside a container UIView.
Set your ViewPay to leading and trailing edges of container view, and for top and bottom add some padding to show shadow.
Also set container view clipsToBounds equals to true.

Answer 2

I hope to help with the solution of your question. In case you wanted something simple to understand, and also following the tips. You create a large container and add the required views. A vertical view of the purple color, another horizontal that would be gray color and in the middle put an image, as I did in the code:
import UIKit
class ViewController: UIViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
//Big container
let container = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: self.view.bounds.width * 0.25, y: self.view.bounds.height * 0.5, width: 250, height: 290))
container.backgroundColor = .clear
self.view.addSubview(container)
//Purple view
let viewContainer = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: container.bounds.midX , y: 0, width: container.bounds.width * 0.89, height: container.bounds.height))
viewContainer.layer.anchorPoint.x = 1.0
viewContainer.backgroundColor = UIColor(displayP3Red: 158/255, green: 131/255, blue: 178/255, alpha: 1.0)
viewContainer.layer.cornerRadius = 8
viewContainer.clipsToBounds = true
container.addSubview(viewContainer)
//Gray view
let viewContainer2 = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: container.bounds.midX , y: container.bounds.midY, width: container.bounds.width * 0.93, height: container.bounds.height * 0.86))
viewContainer2.layer.anchorPoint.y = 1.0
viewContainer2.layer.anchorPoint.x = 1.0
viewContainer2.backgroundColor = UIColor(white: 0.5, alpha: 0.3)
viewContainer2.layer.cornerRadius = 5
viewContainer2.clipsToBounds = true
container.addSubview(viewContainer2)
//image
let imageView = UIImageView(frame: CGRect(x: container.bounds.midX, y: container.bounds.midY, width: container.bounds.width * 0.90, height: container.bounds.height * 0.90))
imageView.contentMode = .scaleToFill
imageView.layer.anchorPoint = CGPoint(x: 1.0, y: 1.0)
imageView.layer.cornerRadius = 10
imageView.clipsToBounds = true
imageView.image = UIImage(named: "image name")
container.addSubview(imageView)
}
}