Adding two shadows to a UILabel - ios

Question

I have a UILabel that I want to add two shadows.
A black colored shadow, and a white colored one.
One has -1 y-offset, and the other has 1 y-offset.
- (void)layoutSubviews{
[super layoutSubviews];
self.sectionTitleLabel.layer.shadowColor = [[UIColor whiteColor] CGColor];
self.sectionTitleLabel.layer.shadowRadius = 0.0f;
self.sectionTitleLabel.layer.shadowOpacity = .2;
self.sectionTitleLabel.layer.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0.f, -1.f);
CALayer *blackShadow = [[CALayer alloc] initWithLayer:self.sectionTitleLabel.layer];
blackShadow.shadowColor = [[UIColor blackColor] CGColor];
blackShadow.shadowRadius = 0.0f;
blackShadow.shadowOpacity = .4;
blackShadow.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0.f, 1.f);
[self.sectionTitleLabel.layer addSublayer:blackShadow];
self.sectionTitleLabel.layer.masksToBounds = NO;
}
With this the white shadow appears, but the black one does not.

Answer 1

I don't understand what do you mean by "two shadows to a UILabel" but I hope I can help. If on this picture you can see what you want, I will be happy :)
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
NSMutableAttributedString* attString = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:self.custLabel.text];
NSRange range = NSMakeRange(0, [attString length]);
[attString addAttribute:NSFontAttributeName value:self.custLabel.font range:range];
[attString addAttribute:NSForegroundColorAttributeName value:self.custLabel.textColor range:range];
NSShadow* shadow = [[NSShadow alloc] init];
shadow.shadowColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
shadow.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0.0f, 1.0f);
[attString addAttribute:NSShadowAttributeName value:shadow range:range];
self.custLabel.attributedText = attString;
[self nextShadow];
}
-(void)nextShadow
{
self.custLabel.layer.masksToBounds = NO;
self.custLabel.layer.cornerRadius = 5;
self.custLabel.layer.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(3, 0);
self.custLabel.layer.shadowRadius = 5;
self.custLabel.layer.shadowOpacity = 1.5;
}
I'd try to use
- (void)addAttributes:(NSDictionary *)attrs range:(NSRange)range;
But you can't use 2 shadow Attributes, only one. And you can customize
-(void)nextShadow
method to create good solution, for example
-(void)nextShadow
{
self.custLabel.layer.masksToBounds = NO;
self.custLabel.layer.cornerRadius = 1;
self.custLabel.layer.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(1, 0);
self.custLabel.layer.shadowRadius = 1;
self.custLabel.layer.shadowOpacity = 1.5;
}
If you adjust values in -(void)nextShadow you can get what you want.