Prologue I have always been fascinated with the great Open Source community that all of us software developers enjoy. There have been some great frameworks which have come out of people’s passion for solving a problem or making a great thing even better. I have used so many open source frameworks…

Have you ever wished that you could achieve something like the following in a UITextView: It is really odd that something that is used so widely, is not supported natively by UITextView on iOS. When I came across a scenario (more on that later — be sure to read till…

Recently, I came across a requirement of having multiple shadows on a single UIView. The requirement was pretty straightforward: Have a perimeter shadow with1px width. Have an ambient shadow which will be variable to give an impression of elevation, as in Material design. The expected result was as follows: I…