Setting alpha on UIView sets the alpha on its subviews which should not happen

Question

According to the documentation for UIVIew @property(nonatomic) CGFloat alpha

The value of this property is a floating-point number in the

Answer 1

Set Opacity of the background color instead of alpha will not affect its child views.

1. select view.
2. go to attribute inspector than background color
3. click on "others"
4. set opacity to 30%

Or you can set by programmetically

var customView:UIView = UIView()
customView.layer.opacity = 0.3

Thats it. Happy Coding!!!