Less Blur with `Visual Effect View with Blur`?

Question

Title pretty much asks it all...

I\'m playing with the iOS8 Visual Effect View with Blur. It\'s over a UIImageView that shows a user choosa

Answer 1

This works for me.

I put UIVisualEffectView in an UIView before add to my view.

I make this function to use easier. You can use this function to make blur any area in your view.

func addBlurArea(area: CGRect, style: UIBlurEffectStyle) {
    let effect = UIBlurEffect(style: style)
    let blurView = UIVisualEffectView(effect: effect)

    let container = UIView(frame: area)
    blurView.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: area.width, height: area.height)
    container.addSubview(blurView)
    container.alpha = 0.8
    self.view.insertSubview(container, atIndex: 1)
}

For example, you can make blur all of your view by calling:

addBlurArea(self.view.frame, style: UIBlurEffectStyle.Dark)

You can change Dark to your desired blur style and 0.8 to your desired alpha value