core gore graphics and alpha values - ios

I am draw some circle on a map with
CGContextFillEllipseInRect
This works great, but the only issue is that I have the alpha value set to .5
If tow or more circle overlap the the overlap area is darker because of the two alpha values being added I suppose. Is there an easy way to maintain the same alpha value regardless if the circle overlap?
Thanks

If you're working with closed shapes and drawing them all in the same drawrect (or at least in the same context) you can accomplish what you want by using UIBezierPath.
// create a path with a circle
UIBezierPath* path = [UIBezierPath bezierPathWithArcCenter:CGPointMake(50, 50) radius:50.0f startAngle:0 endAngle:M_PI * 2.0f clockwise:YES];
// add another circle to the path
[path appendPath:[UIBezierPath bezierPathWithArcCenter:CGPointMake(100, 100) radius:50.0f startAngle:0 endAngle:M_PI * 2.0f clockwise:YES]];
// draw them both, since they are in a single path they will be treated as a single shape
[path fill];

Draw the circles at full opacity, and set the opacity of the view/layer to 0.5.
EDIT:
To clarify, I assume you know how to stop drawing your circles at half opacity, since you managed to set it up that way in the first place. So make the opacity of your circles be 1.0. Then, set your view's opacity to 0.5 by doing the following:
view.alpha = 0.5;
I'm assuming you have a UIView subclass, so this can either be in the place in your code where you create the view or it could be inside the subclass in your init method for it. So if you're doing it from within the UIView subclass, it would be self instead of view:
self.alpha = 0.5;
Also, this will make all of the drawing you do in this view be 0.5 opacity. If you want to have some content that's full opacity and some that's half opacity, the simplest solution I can give you is to have two different views, one for the half opacity content, the other for the full opacity content. There are better ways to accomplish this, but for the sake of communicating easily a solution, this is probably easiest.

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Setting collision bounding path of a UIView in iOS 9

In iOS 9 Apple introduced the collisionBoundsType to UIKit-Dynamics.
I have no issue when setting this UIDynamicItemCollisionBoundsTypeRectangle or when I set this to UIDynamicItemCollisionBoundsTypeEllipse.
The screenshot below is from a game I am making where the collisionBoundsType of the player is set to rectangle and the ball is set to ellipse:
However, when I set the player's collisionBoundsType to path I get weird behavior as seen here:
The view appears higher than it should and the collision body is to the right of where it should be.
Currently I have collisionBoundingPath set to this:
- (UIBezierPath *)collisionBoundingPath
{
maskPath = [[UIBezierPath alloc] init];
[maskPath addArcWithCenter:CGPointMake(SLIME_SIZE, SLIME_SIZE) radius:SLIME_SIZE startAngle:0*M_PI endAngle:M_PI clockwise:NO];
return maskPath;
}
Additionally, my drawRect function looks like this:
- (void) drawRect:(CGRect)rect
{
if (!_color){
[self returnDefualtColor];
}
if (!maskPath) maskPath = [[UIBezierPath alloc] init];
[maskPath addArcWithCenter:CGPointMake(SLIME_SIZE, SLIME_SIZE) radius:SLIME_SIZE startAngle:0*M_PI endAngle:M_PI clockwise:NO];
[_color setFill];
[maskPath fill];
}
Why is this happening? How do I set the path of the collision body to be the same as the drawing in the view?
Additionally, the red is just the background of the view (i.e. view.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];).
From the documentation on the UIDynamicItem here, the following statement about the coordinate system for paths seems to represent what is wrong:
The path object you create must represent a convex polygon with
counter-clockwise or clockwise winding, and the path must not
intersect itself. The (0, 0) point of the path must be located at the
center point of the corresponding dynamic item. If the center point
does not match the path’s origin, collision behaviors may not work as
expected.
Here it states that the (0,0) for the path MUST be the center point.
I would think that the center of your arc path should be (0,0) and not (SLIME_SIZE/2,SLIME_SIZE/2). Have you perhaps set the width and height of the UIView frame to SLIME_SIZE rather than SLIME_SIZE*2?
SLIME_SIZE really seems to define the radius, so the frame width should be SLIME_SIZE*2. If it is set as SLIME_SIZE, then that would explain why you need to translate by SLIME_SIZE/2 as a correction.
I was able to answer this by changing:
- (UIBezierPath *)collisionBoundingPath
{
maskPath = [[UIBezierPath alloc] init];
[maskPath addArcWithCenter:CGPointMake(SLIME_SIZE, SLIME_SIZE) radius:SLIME_SIZE startAngle:0*M_PI endAngle:M_PI clockwise:NO];
return maskPath;
}
to:
- (UIBezierPath *)collisionBoundingPath
{
maskPath = [[UIBezierPath alloc] init];
[maskPath addArcWithCenter:CGPointMake(SLIME_SIZE / 2, SLIME_SIZE / 2) radius:SLIME_SIZE startAngle:0*M_PI endAngle:M_PI clockwise:NO];
return maskPath;
}
The key difference is that I modified the center of the arc by dividing the x and y values by 2.
Debugging physics is a thing. It's probably not something that iOS users have tended to think a lot about as they've generally done very simple things with UIKit Dynamics. This is a bit of a shame, as it's one of the best aspects of the recent editions of iOS, and offers a truly fun way to make compelling user experiences.
So... how to debug physics?
One way is to mentally imagine what's going on, and then correlate that with what's going on, and find the dissonance between the imagined and the real, and then problem solve via a blend of processes of elimination, mental or real trial & error and deduction, until the problem is determined and solved.
Another is to have a visual depiction of all that's created and interacting presenting sufficient feedback to more rapidly determine the nature and extents of elements, their relationships and incidents/events, and resolve issues with literal sight.
To this end, various visual debuggers and builders of physics simulations have been created since their introduction.
Unfortunately iOS does not have such a screen based editor or "scene editor" for UIKit Dynamics, and what is available for this sort of visual debugging in Sprite Kit and Scene Kit is rudimentary, at best.
However there's CALayers, which are present in all UIKit Views, into which CAShapeLayers can be manually created and drawn to accurately represent any and all physical elements, their bounds and their anchors and relationships.
CAShapeLayers are a "container" for CGPaths, and can have different colours for outline and fill, and more than one CGPath element within a single CAShapeLayer.
And, to quote the great Rob:
"If you add a CAShapeLayer as a layer to a view, you don't have to
implement any drawing code yourself. Just add the CAShapeLayer and
you're done. You can even later change the path, for example, and it
will automatically redraw it for you. CAShapeLayer gets you out of the
weeds of writing your own drawRect or drawLayer routines."
If you have an enormous number of interacting elements and want to debug them, CAShapeLayer's performance issues might come into play, at which point you can use shouldRasterize to convert each to a bitmap, and get a significant performance improvement when hitting limits created by the "dynamic" capabilities of CAShapeLayers.
Further, for representing things like constraints and joints, there's a simple process of created dashed lines on CAShapeLayers, by simply setting properties. Here's the basics of setting up a CAShapeLayer's properties, and the way to use an array to create a 5-5-5 dashed outline with a block stroke, width of 3, no fill.
CAShapeLayer *shapeLayer = [CAShapeLayer layer];
[shapeLayer setBounds:self.bounds];
[shapeLayer setPosition:self.center];
[shapeLayer setFillColor:[[UIColor clearColor] CGColor]];
[shapeLayer setStrokeColor:[[UIColor blackColor] CGColor]];
[shapeLayer setLineWidth:3.0f];
[shapeLayer setLineJoin:kCALineJoinRound];
[shapeLayer setLineDashPattern:
[NSArray arrayWithObjects:[NSNumber numberWithInt:10],
[NSNumber numberWithInt:5],nil]];

Draw gradient below a CAShapeLayer graph

I'm drawing a graph using a CGPath applied to a CAShapeLayer. The graph itself is drawn just fine, but I want to add a gradient underneath it afterwards. My problem is that the path is closed with a straight line going from the last point to the first point (see below) – this would make a gradient fill look totally ridiculous.
As far as I can see, the only way to circumvent this issue is to draw two additional lines: one from the last point of the graph to the bottom-right corner, and from there, another one to the bottom-left corner. This would close the path off nicely, but it would add a bottom line to the graph, which I don't want.
If I were using CGContext, I could easily solve this by changing the stroke color to transparent for the last two lines. However, with the code below, I don't see how that would be possible.
CGMutablePathRef graphPath = CGPathCreateMutable();
for (NSUInteger i = 0; i < self.coordinates.count; i++) {
CGPoint coordinate = [self.coordinates[i] CGPointValue];
if (!i) {
CGPathMoveToPoint(graphPath, NULL, coordinate.x, coordinate.y);
} else {
CGPathAddLineToPoint(graphPath, NULL, coordinate.x, coordinate.y);
}
}
CAShapeLayer *graphLayer = [CAShapeLayer new];
graphLayer.path = graphPath;
graphLayer.strokeColor = [UIColor whiteColor].CGColor;
graphLayer.fillColor = [UIColor redColor].CGColor;
[self.layer addSublayer:graphLayer];
I hope you guys can help me out!
Update: You suggest that I could create a CAGradientLayer, and then apply the graph layer as its mask. I don't see how that would work, though, when the graph/path looks the way it does. I have replaced the image above with another graph that hopefully illustrates the problem better (note that I've given the CAShapeLayer a red fill). As I see it, if I were to apply above layer as the mask of a CAGradientLayer, some of the gradient would lie above the graph, some it below. What I want is for all of the gradient to be placed right beneath the graph.
Maybe I'm not understanding the problem correctly, but if you're looking to add a consistent gradient, couldn't you create a gradient layer and then make your graphLayer be that layer's mask?
Figure out whatever the min max bounds of your coordinates, create a CAGradientLayer that size, configure it however you might like and then, apply your graphLayer as it's mask. Then add the new CAGradientLayer to your self.layer.
CAGradientLayer *gradientLayer = [CAGradientLayer layer];
// ... Configure the gradientLayer colors / locations / size / etc...
gradientLayer.mask = graphLayer;
[self.layer addSubLayer:gradientLayer];
This doesn't take into account the stroke, but it shouldn't be difficult to apply that as well if that's important.
I solved the problem by creating two separate paths: One for the graph (as shown in my original post), and one that starts in the lower-right corner, moves in a straight line to the lower-left corner, and from there follows the same path as the graph. By doing so, the path gets closed off nicely, since the graph ends at the same x-coordinate as where the path started.
From there, I applied the second path to a CAShapeLayer, and then used this layer as the mask of a gradient layer.

Can I add a custom line cap to a UIBezierPath?

I'm drawing an arc by creating a CAShapeLayer and giving it a Bezier path like so:
self.arcLayer = [CAShapeLayer layer];
UIBezierPath *remainingLayerPath = [UIBezierPath bezierPathWithArcCenter:self.center
radius:100
startAngle:DEGREES_TO_RADIANS(135)
endAngle:DEGREES_TO_RADIANS(45)
clockwise:YES];
self.arcLayer.path = remainingLayerPath.CGPath;
self.arcLayer.position = CGPointMake(0,0);
self.arcLayer.fillColor = [UIColor clearColor].CGColor;
self.arcLayer.strokeColor = [UIColor blueColor].CGColor;
self.arcLayer.lineWidth = 15;
This all works well, and I can easily animate the arc from one side to the other. As it stands, this gives a very squared edge to the ends of my lines. Can I round the edges of these line caps with a custom radius, like 3 (one third the line width)? I have played with the lineCap property, but the only real options seem to be completely squared or rounded with a larger corner radius than I want. I also tried the cornerRadius property on the layer, but it didn't seem to have any effect (I assume because the line caps are not treated as actual layer corners).
I can only think of two real options and I'm not excited about either of them. I can come up with a completely custom Bezier path tracing the outside of the arc, complete with my custom rounded edges. I'm concerned however about being able to animate the arc in the same fashion (right now I'm just animating the stroke from 0 to 1). The other option is to leave the end caps square and mask the corners, but my understanding is that masking is relatively expensive, and I'm planning on doing some fairly intensive animations with this view.
Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks in advance.
I ended up solving this by creating two completely separate layers, one for the left end cap and one for the right end cap. Here's the right end cap example:
self.rightEndCapLayer = [CAShapeLayer layer];
CGRect rightCapRect = CGRectMake(remainingLayerPath.currentPoint.x, remainingLayerPath.currentPoint.y, 0, 0);
rightCapRect = CGRectInset(rightCapRect, self.arcWidth / -2, -1 * endCapRadius);
self.rightEndCapLayer.frame = rightCapRect;
self.rightEndCapLayer.path = [UIBezierPath bezierPathWithRoundedRect:self.rightEndCapLayer.bounds
byRoundingCorners:UIRectCornerBottomLeft | UIRectCornerBottomRight
cornerRadii:CGSizeMake(endCapRadius, endCapRadius)].CGPath;
self.rightEndCapLayer.fillColor = self.remainingColor.CGColor;
// Rotate the end cap
self.rightEndCapLayer.anchorPoint = CGPointMake(.5, 0);
self.rightEndCapLayer.transform = CATransform3DMakeRotation(DEGREES_TO_RADIANS(45), 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
[self.layer addSublayer:self.rightEndCapLayer];
Using the bezier path's current point saves from doing a lot of math to calculate where the end point should appear. Moving the anchoring point also allows the layers to not overlap, which is important if your arc is at all transparent.
This still isn't entirely ideal, as animations have to be chained through multiple layers. It's better than the alternatives I could come up with though.

Smoothly animated hole in CALayer?

Ok, I figured out how to do this based on various posts here on SO, and it works great. I'm working on an overlay which will basically mask the whole window except for a small region. This is for drawing attention to a specific area of my app. I'm using a bunch of calls to moveToPoint: and addLineToPoint: like so (this is in my CALayer subclass' drawInContext:):
....
// inner path (CW)
[holePath moveToPoint:CGPointMake(x, y)];
[holePath addLineToPoint:CGPointMake(x + w, y)];
[holePath addLineToPoint:CGPointMake(x + w, y + h)];
[holePath addLineToPoint:CGPointMake(x, y+h)];
// outer path (CCW)
[holePath moveToPoint:CGPointMake(xBounds, yBounds)];
[holePath addLineToPoint:CGPointMake(xBounds, yBounds + hBounds)];
[holePath addLineToPoint:CGPointMake(xBounds + wBounds, yBounds + hBounds)];
[holePath addLineToPoint:CGPointMake(xBounds + wBounds, yBounds)];
// put the path in the context
CGContextBeginPath(ctx);
CGContextMoveToPoint(ctx, 0, 0);
CGContextAddPath(ctx, holePath.CGPath);
CGContextClosePath(ctx);
// set the color
CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(ctx, self.overlayColor.CGColor);
// draw the overlay
CGContextDrawPath(ctx, kCGPathFillStroke);
(holePath is an instance of UIBezierPath.)
So far so good. The next step is animation. In order to do this (I also found this technique here on SO) I made a method as follows
-(CABasicAnimation *)makeAnimationForKey:(NSString *)key {
CABasicAnimation *anim = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:key];
anim.fromValue = [[self presentationLayer] valueForKey:key];
anim.timingFunction = [CAMediaTimingFunction functionWithName:kCAMediaTimingFunctionEaseInEaseOut];
anim.duration = 0.5;
return anim;
}
and overrode actionForKey:, initWithLayer: and needsDisplayForKey: (returning the result of makeAnimationForKey: in actionForKey:. Now, I get a nice "hole layer", which has a property holeRect which is animatable using implicit CAAnimations! Unfortunately, it's SUPER choppy. I get something like 2 or 3 frames per second. I thought that perhaps the problem was the background, and tried replacing it with a snapshot, but no dice. Then, I used Instruments to profile, and discovered that the HUGE hog here is the call to CGContextDrawPath().
tl;dr I guess my question comes down to this: is there a simpler way to create this layer with a hole in it which will redraw faster? My hunch is that, if I could simplify the path I'm using, drawing the path would be lighter. Or possibly masking? Please help!
Ok, I tried phix23's suggestion, and it totally did the trick! At first, I was subclassing CALayer and adding a CAShapeLayer as a sublayer, but I couldn't get it to work properly and I'm pretty tired at this point, so I gave up and just replaced my subclass completely with CAShapeLayer! I used the above code in its own method, returning the UIBezierPath, and animated like so:
UIBezierPath* oldPath = [self pathForHoleRect:self.holeRect];
UIBezierPath* newPath = [self pathForHoleRect:rectToHighlight];
self.holeRect = rectToHighlight;
CABasicAnimation *animation = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:#"path"];
animation.duration = 0.5;
animation.timingFunction = [CAMediaTimingFunction functionWithName:kCAMediaTimingFunctionEaseInEaseOut];
animation.fromValue = (id)oldPath.CGPath;
animation.toValue = (id)newPath.CGPath;
[self.holeLayer addAnimation:animation forKey:#"animatePath"];
self.holeLayer.path = newPath.CGPath;
Interesting side note -- path is NOT implicitly animatable. I guess that makes sense.
Redrawing is expensive, animation is not. When you set the value for "holeRect" you are instructing the entire layer to redraw. THIS IS NOT THE SAME AS A TYPICAL PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZED PROPERTY ANIMATION. If the layer is the size of the entire screen, then you are effectively recreating a new version of the layer on every frame. This is one of the things that apple does to ensure smooth animations. You want to prevent redraws as much as possible.
I would suggest creating a layer with the hole in the center, and make sure that the layer is large enough to cover the entire screen no matter where the hole is centered. Then the animation should animate the "position" property of the layer. While it may seem wasteful to have this massive layer of which only ~ 30% will ever be used at once, it is much less wasteful then redrawing on every frame. If you would like to maintain your "holeRect" interface you can, but the layer with "holeRect" property should contain a sublayer or sublayers that are animated in the way that I described (in layoutSubviews, not drawInContext:).
In summary, make sure you are animating position, opacity, transform as these are among the most efficient animations on layers, and redraw only when necessary.
In your example you use a rectangular hole. Implementing such animation could be more efficient if you use four rectangular layers (see attached image). To animate the hole rectangle position you'll have to animate the blue layers' widths, and red layers' heights. (if the hole rectangle can change width, the red layers' widths will also have to be animated)
If you need a non-rectangular hole, you could place another layer in the middle of these, which has the hole inside and change only the position of this layer (see the 2nd image). Resizing this non-rectangular hole will result in recreating only the middle layer's contents, so it should be a bit faster than in your original case where this layer was of the size of the screen if I understood correctly.
I am posting an anwser because I am not able to comment on your question (yet) due to reputation.
My question is whether this has to be created programmatically? If it is just about creating an attention area you could use another approach.
Why not just use a black png with a transparent hole in it? Then you do not have performance issues during animation and to a certain extent if you choose your original hole size well, you could even resize it. The image has to be just big enough so that it covers every part of the view indenpendently of the current position of the hole. The part outside the hole could also include transparency resulting in a shadow effect outside the attention area.

Create the indented look found in UINavigationBarButton - programmatically

I'm trying to programmatically recreate the indented button look that can be seen on a UINavigationBarButton. Not the shiny two tone look or the gradient, just the perimeter shading:
It looks like an internal dark shadowing around the entire view perimeter, slightly darker at the top? And then an external highlighting shadow around the lower view perimeter.
I've played a bit with Core Graphics, and experimented with QuartzCore and shadowing with view.layer.shadowRadius and .shadowOffset, but can't even get the lower highlighting to look right. I'm also not sure where to start to achieve both a dark shadowing with internal offset and a light shadowing with external offset.
It seems as though you want a border that looks looks like a shadow. Since the shadow appears to some sort of gradient, setting a border as a gradient won't be possible at first glance. However, it is possible to create a path that represents the border and then fill that with a gradient. Apple provides what seems to be a little known function called CGPathCreateCopyByStrokingPath. This takes a path (say, a rounded rect, for example) and creates a new path that would be the stroke of the old path given the settings you pass into the function (like line width, join/cap setting, miter limit, etc). So lets say you define a path (this isn't exactly what Apple provides, but's it's similar):
+ (UIBezierPath *) bezierPathForBackButtonInRect:(CGRect)rect withRoundingRadius:(CGFloat)radius{
UIBezierPath *path = [UIBezierPath bezierPath];
CGPoint mPoint = CGPointMake(CGRectGetMaxX(rect) - radius, rect.origin.y);
CGPoint ctrlPoint = mPoint;
[path moveToPoint:mPoint];
ctrlPoint.y += radius;
mPoint.x += radius;
mPoint.y += radius;
if (radius > 0) [path addArcWithCenter:ctrlPoint radius:radius startAngle:M_PI + M_PI_2 endAngle:0 clockwise:YES];
mPoint.y = CGRectGetMaxY(rect) - radius;
[path addLineToPoint:mPoint];
ctrlPoint = mPoint;
mPoint.y += radius;
mPoint.x -= radius;
ctrlPoint.x -= radius;
if (radius > 0) [path addArcWithCenter:ctrlPoint radius:radius startAngle:0 endAngle:M_PI_2 clockwise:YES];
mPoint.x = rect.origin.x + (10.0f);
[path addLineToPoint:mPoint];
[path addLineToPoint:CGPointMake(rect.origin.x, CGRectGetMidY(rect))];
mPoint.y = rect.origin.y;
[path addLineToPoint:mPoint];
[path closePath];
return path;
}
This returns a path similar to Apple's back button (I use this in my app). I have added this method (along with dozens more) as a category to UIBezierPath.
Now lets add that inner shadow in a drawing routine:
- (void) drawRect:(CGRect)rect{
UIBezierPath *path = [UIBezierPath bezierPathForBackButtonInRect:rect withRoundingRadius:5.0f];
//Just fill with blue color, do what you want here for the button
[[UIColor blueColor] setFill];
[path fill];
[path addClip]; //Not completely necessary, but borders are actually drawn 'around' the path edge, so that half is inside your path, half is outside adding this will ensure the shadow only fills inside the path
//This strokes the standard path, however you might want to might want to inset the rect, create a new 'back button path' off the inset rect and create the inner shadow path off that.
//The line width of 2.0f will actually show up as 1.0f with the above clip: [path addClip];, due to the fact that borders are drawn around the edge
UIBezierPath *innerShadow = [UIBezierPath bezierPathWithCGPath: CGPathCreateCopyByStrokingPath(path.CGPath, NULL, 2.0f, path.lineCapStyle, path.lineJoinStyle, path.miterLimit)];
//You need this, otherwise the center (inside your path) will also be filled with the gradient, which you don't want
innerShadow.usesEvenOddFillRule = YES;
[innerShadow addClip];
//Now lets fill it with a vertical gradient
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
CGPoint start = CGPointMake(0, 0);
CGPoint end = CGPointMake(0, CGRectGetMaxY(rect));
CGFloat locations[2] = { 0.0f, 1.0f};
NSArray *colors = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:(id)[UIColor colorWithWhite:.7f alpha:.5f].CGColor, (id)[UIColor colorWithWhite:.3f alpha:.5f].CGColor, nil];
CGGradientRef gradRef = CGGradientCreateWithColors(CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB(), (__bridge CFArrayRef)colors, locations);
CGContextDrawLinearGradient(context, gradRef, start, end, 0);
CGGradientRelease(gradRef);
}
Now this is just a simple example. I don't save/restore contexts or anything, which you'll probably want to do. There are things you might still want to do to make it better, like maybe inset the 'shadow' path if you want to use a normal border. You might want to use more/different colors and locations. But this should get you started.
UPDATE
There is another method you can use to create this effect. I wrote an algorithm to bevel arbitrary bezier paths in core graphics. This can be used to create the effect you're looking for. This is an example of how I use it in my app:
You pass to the routine the CGContextRef, CGPathRef, size of the bevel and what colors you want it to use for the highlight/shadow.
The code I used for this can be found here:Github - Beveling Algorithm.
I also explain the code and my methodology here: Beveling-Shapes in Core Graphics
Using the layer's shadow won't do it. You need both a light outer shadow and a dark inner shadow to get that effect. A layer can only have one (outer) shadow. (Also, layer shadows are redrawn dynamically, and force CPU-based rendering which kills performance.)
You'll need to do your own drawing with CoreGraphics, either in a view's drawRect: method or a layer's drawInContext: method. (Or you draw into an image context and then reuse the image.) Said drawing will mostly use CGContext functions. (I'll name some below, but this link has documentation for them all.)
For a round rect button, you might find it tedious to create the appropriate CGPath -- instead, you can use +[UIBezierPath bezierPathWithRoundedRect:cornerRadius:] and then the path's CGPath property to set the context's current path with CGContextAddPath.
You can create an inner shadow by setting a clipping path (see CGContextClip and related functions) to the shape of the button, setting up a shadow (see CGContextSetShadowWithColor and related functions), and then drawing around the outside of the shape you want shadowed. For the inner shadow, stroke (CGContextStrokePath) a round-rect that's a bit larger than your button, using a thick stroke width (CGContextSetLineWidth) so there's plenty of "ink" to generate a shadow (remember, this stroke won't be visible due to the clipping path).
You can create an outer shadow in much the same way -- don't use a clipping path this time, because you want the shadow to be outside the shape, and fill (CGContextFillPath) the shape of your button instead of stroking it. Note that drawing a shadow is sort of a "mode": you save the graphics state (CGContextSaveGState), setup a shadow, then draw the shape you want to see a shadow of (the shape itself isn't drawn when you're in this mode), and finally restore state (CGContextRestoreGState) to get out of "shadow mode". Since that mode doesn't draw the shape, only the shadow, you'll need to draw the shape itself separately.
There's an order to do this all in, too. It should be obvious if you think about the order in which you'd paint these things with physical media: First draw the outer shadow, then the button's fill, then the inner shadow. You might add a stroke after that if the inner shadow doesn't give you a pronounced enough outline.
There are a few drawing tools which can output source code for CoreGraphics: Opacity is one that I use. Be careful with these, though, as they code they generate may not be efficient.

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