Dotted Line UIView in SwiftThu Dec 10 2020

Creating a dashed or dotted line in Swift requires a CAShapeLayer. Here is an overview on CALayer from RayWenderlich.

This StackOverflow Question shows how to create a dotted line in a layer.

Put these together into a UIView and this class can be dropped around the project.

import UIKit

class DashedLineHorizonatalView: UIView {
    init() {
        super.init(frame: .zero)
        setup()
    }

    required init?(coder _: NSCoder) {
        fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
    }

    private func setup() {
        height(3)
        let shapeLayer = CAShapeLayer()
        shapeLayer.strokeColor = UIColor.gray.cgColor
        shapeLayer.lineWidth = 1
        // passing an array with the values [2,3] sets a dash pattern that alternates between a 2-user-space-unit-long painted segment and a 3-user-space-unit-long unpainted segment
        shapeLayer.lineDashPattern = [2, 4]
        let path = CGMutablePath()
        path.addLines(between: [CGPoint(x: 0, y: 0), CGPoint(x: UIScreen.main.bounds.width, y: 0)])
        shapeLayer.path = path
        layer.addSublayer(shapeLayer)
    }
}