iOS Best way to draw border on UIImageView

[jschulbach]

I've got a couple of UIImageViews that are square but contain either tall or wide images with aspect fill so they fill the square. If I wanted a border around these images what is an easy way to do that? I didn't see a border option for image views in IB so would I want to just put another image view behind them that is 1px larger in each direction? What is the best way to go about adding the border?

 

[jschulbach]

I think I found a good solution. I just used a view with the background color set to my border color, sized 1px larger than the UIImageView on each side. I was mostly concerned about efficiency and what method would affect performance the least but this method seems pretty simple.

 

[PBG4 Dude]

That's a neat and easy solution! I would've been bordering my images instead of this simple idea. 🙂 Thanks for posting.

 

[kainjow]

You could try playing with the image view's layer which has a borderColor and borderWidth property, but that may not work on the UIImageView.