How to get back the UIButton border in iOS 7?

Question

I built an old project in iOS SDK 6.1 in Xcode 5. However, the UIbutton is borderless when the app runs on an iPhone running iOS 7. I have checked the .xib is "Builds for" > "Project Deployment Target (5.0)":

How can I config Xcode 5 to build the project to show an iOS 6.1-style UIButton?

Solution 1

you can create a category:

- (void)setRoundedBorder:(float) radius borderWidth:(float)borderWidth color:(UIColor*)color
{
    CALayer * l = [self layer];
    [l setMasksToBounds:YES];
    [l setCornerRadius:radius];
    // You can even add a border
    [l setBorderWidth:borderWidth];
    [l setBorderColor:[color CGColor]];
}

Solution 2

Try this

set border width of button by using QuartzCore Framework

#import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h>

button.layer.borderWidth=1.0f;
button.layer.borderColor=[[UIColor blackColor] CGColor];

Solution 3

If you don't want to introduce any of the iOS 7 changes changing the SDK is not enough. You shouldn't leave the Interface Builder "Opens in" property unchanged as well.

I leave mine in "Xcode 4.6" and everything looks as it should.

I think the only advantage you would take is with the new auto-layout.

Comments

[Abdullah Md. Zubair]

duplicate question: stackoverflow.com/questions/18295703/…

[ohho]

@AbdullahMd.Zubair it's not a duplicate. I am compiling an iOS SDK 6.1 app, not an iOS SDK 7 app.

[iPatel]

use #import <QuartzCore/QuartzCore.h> frame work and set layerBorder = 1 ;..

[Abdullah Md. Zubair]

@ohho when your app run on ios7, it gets compiled on ios7

[mtisz]

Check out this answer stackoverflow.com/questions/18295703/…

[Paul Solt]

I prefer to set the background images using resizable images. Checkout variations of the UIButton for iOS 7 and touch behavior.