I have a UIView with a UILabel in it I want the UIView to have white background color but with an opacity of 50 The problem whith setting view alpha 0 5 is that the label will have an opacity of 50 as well so I figured out that it maybe would be possible to have a UIView with white background color and opacity white view and then have another UIView with the label label view Then add the white view to label view by doing this label view addSubview white view This apparently doesn t work I d like to do like label view backgroundView white view but you can t set a background view on a UIView like you can do in a UICollectionView for instance Does anyone have any clue of how to solve this EDIT Because several answers are approx the same I ll type it here Now I ve tried even these label view1 backgroundColor UIColor whiteColor colorWithAlphaComponent 0 5 label view1 addSubview firstPlacelbl endGameView addSubview label view1 and label view1 backgroundColor UIColor white 1 alpha 0 5 label view1 addSubview firstPlacelbl endGameView addSubview label view1 And still the label is also affected by the alpha and it gets an opacity of 50 I don t get it what I do wrong because I only set the colors alpha to 0 5 and not the labels Any ideas

Swift UIView background color opacity

You can set background color of view to the UIColor with alpha, and not affect view.alpha:

view.backgroundColor = UIColor(white: 1, alpha: 0.5)

view.backgroundColor = UIColor.red.withAlphaComponent(0.5)

~ Answered on 2014-12-12 08:11:08