How do you create a semi-transparent background for a UIView?

Question

I am creating a UIView containing some text that partially covers a UIImageView. I want the user to be able to read the text and still maintain a perspective on the image undern

Answer 1

For Xamarin C#, at this time, the visual storyboard does not have the "opacity" slider of Xcode's storyboard mentioned by Bocaxica.

If you set BackgroundColor for View nameOfView in storyboard, then in your view controller's ViewDidLoad, add this line to set alpha:

nameOfView.BackgroundColor = nameOfView.BackgroundColor.ColorWithAlpha( 0.7f );  // A value between 0 and 1.