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)":

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

duplicate question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18295703/ios-7-and-button-and-border — Abdullah Md. Zubair, Oct 22 '13 at 04:56
@AbdullahMd.Zubair it's not a duplicate. I am compiling an iOS SDK 6.1 app, not an iOS SDK 7 app. — ohho, Oct 22 '13 at 04:59
Check out this answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18295703/ios-7-and-button-and-border/28259540#28259540 — mtisz, Feb 01 '15 at 04:53

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 22 '13 at 05:06

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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];

answered Oct 22 '13 at 05:06

Kalpesh

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score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 22 '13 at 05:09

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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]];
}

answered Oct 22 '13 at 05:09

Vaibhav Saran

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I prefer to set the background images using resizable images. Checkout variations of the [UIButton for iOS 7 and touch behavior](http://iphonedev.tv/blog/2014/1/22/programmatic-uibutton-on-ios-70-create-a-uibutton-with-code). – Paul Solt Apr 03 '14 at 15:47

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 24 '13 at 16:10

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.

How to get back the UIButton border in iOS 7?

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