adding black overlay with 0.3 opacity over UIImageView

Question

I have a UIImageView and I wanted to add a black overlay on top of it. What is the best way of doing this without having to override drawRect? I was thinking of adding a CALayer

Answer 1

This is similar to MDT's answer except using CALayer properties:

UIView *blackOverlay = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame: imageView.frame];
blackOverlay.layer.backgroundColor = [[UIColor blackColor] CGColor];
blackOverlay.layer.opacity = 0.3f;
[self.view addSubview: blackOverlay];