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The Core iOS Developer’s Cookbook, Fifth Edition
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The Core iOS Developer’s Cookbook, Fifth Edition

by Erica Sadun, Rich Wardwell
March 2014
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
40h 11m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Display and Interaction Traits

In addition to physical screen layout, the UIView class provides properties that control how your view appears and whether users can interact with it. Every view uses an opaqueness factor (alpha) that ranges between opaque and transparent. Adjust this by issuing [myView setAlpha:value] or setting the myView.alpha property where the alpha values fall between 0.0 (fully transparent) and 1.0 (fully opaque). This is a great way to fade views in and out. Use the hidden property to hide views entirely without animation.

You can assign a color to the background of any view. For example, the following property colors your view red:

myView.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];

This property ...

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