All of the answers already given are really good and valid (especially Yunus idea of using the mask
property).
However I needed something a little more complex because my layer could often change sizes which mean I needed to call that masking logic every time and this was a little bit annoying.
I used swift extensions
and computed properties to build a real cornerRadii
property which takes care of auto updating the mask when layer is layed out.
This was achieved using Peter Steinberg great Aspects library for swizzling.
Full code is here:
extension CALayer {
// This will hold the keys for the runtime property associations
private struct AssociationKey {
static var CornerRect:Int8 = 1 // for the UIRectCorner argument
static var CornerRadius:Int8 = 2 // for the radius argument
}
// new computed property on CALayer
// You send the corners you want to round (ex. [.TopLeft, .BottomLeft])
// and the radius at which you want the corners to be round
var cornerRadii:(corners: UIRectCorner, radius:CGFloat) {
get {
let number = objc_getAssociatedObject(self, &AssociationKey.CornerRect) as? NSNumber ?? 0
let radius = objc_getAssociatedObject(self, &AssociationKey.CornerRadius) as? NSNumber ?? 0
return (corners: UIRectCorner(rawValue: number.unsignedLongValue), radius: CGFloat(radius.floatValue))
}
set (v) {
let radius = v.radius
let closure:((Void)->Void) = {
let path = UIBezierPath(roundedRect: self.bounds, byRoundingCorners: v.corners, cornerRadii: CGSize(width: radius, height: radius))
let mask = CAShapeLayer()
mask.path = path.CGPath
self.mask = mask
}
let block: @convention(block) Void -> Void = closure
let objectBlock = unsafeBitCast(block, AnyObject.self)
objc_setAssociatedObject(self, &AssociationKey.CornerRect, NSNumber(unsignedLong: v.corners.rawValue), .OBJC_ASSOCIATION_RETAIN)
objc_setAssociatedObject(self, &AssociationKey.CornerRadius, NSNumber(float: Float(v.radius)), .OBJC_ASSOCIATION_RETAIN)
do { try aspect_hookSelector("layoutSublayers", withOptions: .PositionAfter, usingBlock: objectBlock) }
catch _ { }
}
}
}
I wrote a simple blog post explaining this.