iOS, Draw text with stroke on UIImage

Question

I am currently drawing text onto a UIImage which appears in an AnnotationView in an iOS Map - custom icons which appear at certain long/lat coordinates. Works well. However, I would like to draw this text with a white stroke (you might call it an outline).

// Draw text and add to a UIImage iOS 5/6

+ (UIImage*)drawText:(NSString*)string inImage:(UIImage*)image atPoint:(CGPoint)point {

    UIFont *font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:12];
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(image.size);
    [image drawInRect:CGRectMake(0,0,image.size.width,image.size.height)];

    CGRect rect = CGRectMake(point.x, point.y, image.size.width, image.size.height);
    [[UIColor whiteColor] set];
    [string drawInRect:CGRectIntegral(rect) withFont:font];
    UIImage *newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

    return newImage;

}

Answer 1

NSAttributedString is definitely the way to go, especially if you want it to work in iOS7. For your example, you can just replace the two text blocks with the following:

// draw stroke
NSMutableDictionary *attributes = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
[attributes setObject:font forKey:NSFontAttributeName];
[attributes setObject:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:4] forKey:NSStrokeWidthAttributeName];
[attributes setObject:[UIColor whiteColor] forKey:NSStrokeColorAttributeName];
[self.text drawInRect:rect withAttributes:attributes];

// draw fill
[attributes removeObjectForKey:NSStrokeWidthAttributeName];
[attributes removeObjectForKey:NSStrokeColorAttributeName];
[attributes setObject:[UIColor blackColor] forKey:NSForegroundColorAttributeName];
[self.text drawInRect:rect withAttributes:attributes];