Text Field with Only top and Bottom Border using swift 2 - swift2

Question

I have a page for forgot password. It has only a text field asking the user to fill in their email address. The Designer designed the text field with top and bottom border only.
I tried answer from here UITextField Only Top And Bottom Border
but in the result it only shows bottom border for the text field.
Like in the image i would like to create a grey border for top and bottom

Answer 1

To remove Fights with views you could create a tableView with a static cell that contains a TextField. Voila done... Top and bottom border comes for free and you will use standard apple stuff :)
If you really want to draw the layers than follow the steps on your linked questions:
CALayer *topBorder = [CALayer layer];
topBorder.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, self.frame.size.width, 1);
topBorder.backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor].CGColor;
[myTextField.layer addSublayer:topBorder];
CALayer *bottomBorder = [CALayer layer];
bottomBorder.frame = CGRectMake(0, self.frame.size.height - 1, self.frame.size.width, 1);
bottomBorder.backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor].CGColor;
[myTextField.layer addSublayer:bottomBorder];
In Swift:
let topBorder = CALayer()
topBorder.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, bounds.size.width, 1)
topBorder.backgroundColor = UIColor.grayColor()
textField.layer.addSublayer(topBorder)
let bottomBorder = CALayer()
bottomBorder.frame = CGRectMake(0, bounds.size.height-1, bounds.size.width, 1)
bottomBorder.backgroundColor = UIColor.grayColor()
textField.layer.addSublayer(bottomBorder)

Answer 2

Thanks #El Captain for the valuable comment and nice answer by #Bjorn Ro even if it was in Objective-c i think.
And my answer for the question is (i'm using swift 2 Xcode 7)
Override the function viewDidLayoutSubviews() in your swift file. And the Code for the same is
override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
// Creates the bottom border
let borderBottom = CALayer()
let borderWidth = CGFloat(2.0)
borderBottom.borderColor = UIColor.grayColor().CGColor
borderBottom.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: forgotPasswordEmailText.frame.height - 1.0, width: forgotPasswordEmailText.frame.width , height: forgotPasswordEmailText.frame.height - 1.0)
borderBottom.borderWidth = borderWidth
forgotPasswordEmailText.layer.addSublayer(borderBottom)
forgotPasswordEmailText.layer.masksToBounds = true
// Creates the Top border
let borderTop = CALayer()
borderTop.borderColor = UIColor.grayColor().CGColor
borderTop.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: forgotPasswordEmailText.frame.width, height: 1)
borderTop.borderWidth = borderWidth
forgotPasswordEmailText.layer.addSublayer(borderTop)
forgotPasswordEmailText.layer.masksToBounds = true
}
forgotPasswordEmailText is the text field for entering Email
The Final output looks like this... with a gray Colour border (Screen shot of iPhone 4s Simulator)

Answer 3

Good suggestions for programatic solution posted so far. But I figured I'd share an Interfacebuilder solution....
1) Create view collection in your view controller
#IBOutlet private var borderViews: [UIView]?
2) Create 2 UIViews in interface builder 1px high constrained to where you want them around the textfield
3) Connect the 2 views in interface builder to borderViews IBOutlet
4) Customise appearance of both views by using setValue forKeyPath... for example, on success you may want the border to turn green
setValue(UIColor.green, forKeyPath: "borderViews.backgroundColor")

Answer 4

In Swift 3 use extension:
Create Swift file
import UIKit
extension UITextField {
func setBottomBorder() {
self.borderStyle = .none
self.layer.backgroundColor = UIColor.white.cgColor
self.layer.masksToBounds = false
self.layer.shadowColor = UIColor.gray.cgColor
self.layer.shadowOffset = CGSize(width: 0.0, height: 1.0)
self.layer.shadowOpacity = 1.0
self.layer.shadowRadius = 0.0
}
}
Call from anywhere:
PasswordField.setBottomBorder();

Answer 5

Here's a nice and easy Swift 4 implementation that handles resizing views as well :)
override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()
viewToShadow.backgroundColor = .white
viewToShadow.layer.masksToBounds = false
viewToShadow.layer.sublayers?
.filter { layer -> Bool in
return layer.backgroundColor == UIColor.almostBlack.alpha(0.5).cgColor
}
.forEach { layer in
layer.removeFromSuperlayer()
}
[CGRect(x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: viewToShadow.bounds.width, height: 0.5),
CGRect(x: 0.0, y: viewToShadow.bounds.height, width: viewToShadow.bounds.width, height: 0.5)]
.forEach { frame in
let layer = CALayer()
layer.frame = frame
layer.backgroundColor = UIColor.almostBlack.alpha(0.5).cgColor
viewToShadow.layer.addSublayer(layer)
}
}

Answer 6

Use handy extension for it
extension UITextField {
func addTopBorder(){
let bottomLine = CALayer()
bottomLine.frame = CGRect.init(x: 0, y: 0, width: self.frame.size.width, height: 1)
bottomLine.backgroundColor = UIColor.white.cgColor
self.borderStyle = UITextField.BorderStyle.none
self.layer.addSublayer(bottomLine)
}
func addBottomBorder(){
let bottomLine = CALayer()
bottomLine.frame = CGRect.init(x: 0, y: self.frame.size.height - 1, width: self.frame.size.width, height: 1)
bottomLine.backgroundColor = UIColor.white.cgColor
self.attributedPlaceholder = NSAttributedString(string: self.placeholder ?? "-", attributes: [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor : #colorLiteral(red: 1.0, green: 1.0, blue: 1.0, alpha: 1.0)])
self.borderStyle = UITextField.BorderStyle.none
self.layer.addSublayer(bottomLine)
}
}
use it in you controller like this
yourTextfield.addTopBorder()
yourTextfield.addBottomBorder()
and don't forget to use it on main thread
DispatchQueue.main.async {
self.yourTextfield.addTopBorder()
self.yourTextfield.addBottomBorder()
}