Could you point out the specific workaround please?

I haven't filed a bug yet, but I will. In the meantime, I've constructed the following work around — it's a hack, but it seems to work.

Can you file a bug? Maybe they will fix it before iOS 15 is released. Jeremy —

Thanks for the heads up. That’s crappy.

Good thought. I'll give it a try. Re: your "do you have to use the API" remark, the simple answer is that if your deployment target is iOS 15, you ARE using the API, whether you like it or not. There

Can you set up an observer to watch and see if it’s changed and then change it back? Seems like a real hack, but it’s a thought.

My god, that sucks. I can’t believe this wasn’t tested. We've actually been building custom UI classes for the past month and am familiar with the pain. Do you have to use the new API?

The problem is unique to the new iOS 15 UIButton API. There is no problem in my logic if the deployment target < iOS15. Specifically, I tried setting a constraint on the height of the button. It is

I did this in UIKit by making the button’s frame.size.width the frame.size.width of the content within + appropriate space buffers. One trick is if the text component is a UILabel, making the lines

I am trying to construct a button using the new iOS15 button API. (Xcode 13ß3, UIKit & Storyboards) The button has a title (aligned .leading) and an image (aligned .trailing). The button has the

But that’s exactly what I want. I want to add a shadow to an item with no opacity. I am specifying the shadow path as a bezier path so that I can overlay an additional shadow over a UIView. We

Sure — but it doesn’t matter how opaque the shadow is. An object with zero opacity won’t have a shadow (in real life or in computer graphics). Imagine some opaque text on a transparent

But it’s odd, since I set the shadow opacity to 1, which is 100%. Adding multiple shadows to a UIView is a royal PITA without a CGFilter since you can’t make an empty layer and apply a shadow to

That’s what I would have expected: a transparent object produces no shadow, while a semi-transparent object produces a weak shadow. It’s analogous to real-life objects. Jeremy —

Well, it was worth a shot. The shadow is barely visible even if I use a shadowOpacity of 1.

I said .01%, not 1%. I doubt the naked eye will detect that little of a change. Steve via iPad

What I’ve been doing is duplicating the layer, a task unto itself, adding the layer on top of or behind the previous layer and then getting a shadow that way. It’s not perfect but it’s

What about using black or white at a very low alpha, like .01%? Steve via iPad

In my experiments, I noticed that if you simply create a layer for a view and attempt to add a shadow, nothing appears. Unless some color is applied to the border or the backgroundColor of the layer,

Is anyone aware of a process to scan a UIView and obtain its alpha channel or bit mask used for compositing? I’m looking for this to create shadows in the shape of the contents of the non