Indent UITextField text and placeholder - ios

Question

I have programmatically created a UITextField in my UITableView footer like so:
let customView = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: self.view.bounds.width, height: 50))
self.textArea = UITextField(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: self.view.bounds.width - 50, height: 50))
self.textArea.placeholder = "Add Item"
self.textArea.layer.borderColor = UIColor.gray.cgColor
self.textArea.layer.borderWidth = 1
customView.addSubview(self.textArea)
let button = UIButton(frame: CGRect(x: self.view.bounds.width - 50, y: 0, width: 50, height: 50))
button.setTitle("Add", for: .normal)
button.setTitleColor(.white, for: .normal)
button.backgroundColor = UIColor(displayP3Red: 3.0 / 255.0, green: 0.0 / 255.0, blue: 113.0 / 255.0, alpha: 1.0)
button.addTarget(self, action: #selector(self.addWishListItem), for: .touchUpInside)
customView.addSubview(button)
self.tableView.tableFooterView = customView
My question is, how do I indent the UITextField text and placeholder text so it's not right at the edge of the left side?
I found this:
let paddingView = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 15, height: self.textArea.frame.height))
self.textArea.leftView = paddingView
self.textArea.leftViewMode = .always
Is there a better way on doing this?

Answer 1

You can create a customTextField and override the rects for text, placeholder, border.. basically everything.
import UIKit
class CustomTextField: UITextField {
override func placeholderRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
return CGRect.init(x: 10, y: -10, width: bounds.width, height: bounds.height)
}
override func textRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
return CGRect.init(x: 10, y: -10, width: bounds.width, height: bounds.height)
}
}
You control the position of it by changing x and y values