Place text on top of other CALayer in drawRect

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I am trying to show text above CALayer but somehow I am not able to achieve it. I have used following code to do

- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect
{
    self.layer.sublayers = nil;
    CGContextRef ctx = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
    CGContextSaveGState(ctx);

    // Code to show grid lines clipped

    CGRect overallRectForBarItem = CGRectMake(20, 20, 176, 35);
    CAShapeLayer *barItemShape = [CAShapeLayer layer];
    barItemShape.frame = overallRectForBarItem;
    barItemShape.path = [UIBezierPath bezierPathWithRect:overallRectForBarItem].CGPath;
    barItemShape.strokeColor = [UIColor lightGrayColor].CGColor;
    barItemShape.fillColor = [UIColor lightGrayColor].CGColor;
    [self.layer addSublayer:barItemShape];

    [self drawTextForBarItem:@"TESTING" inRect:CGRectMake(100, 40, 35, 0)];

    // Other code clipped

    CGContextRestoreGState(ctx);
}

-(void) drawTextForBarItem:(NSString*)barItemTitle inRect:(CGRect)rect
{
    float actualFontSize = 14.0;
    UIFont *font = [ISKY_Utility getSystemFont:actualFontSize];
    CGSize size = [barItemTitle sizeWithFont:font];
    NSMutableParagraphStyle *paragraphStyle = [[[NSParagraphStyle defaultParagraphStyle] mutableCopy] autorelease];
    paragraphStyle.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakByTruncatingTail;
    paragraphStyle.alignment = NSTextAlignmentRight;
    [barItemTitle drawInRect:CGRectMake(rect.origin.x, rect.origin.y - size.height/2, rect.size.width, size.height) withAttributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:font, NSForegroundColorAttributeName:[UIColor blueColor], NSParagraphStyleAttributeName:paragraphStyle}];
}

Following is the screen shot of simulator.

I have also tried zPosition but no use.

barItemShape.zPosition = -1000;

asked 32 secs ago

Faisal Ali

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