100% opacity uilabel over a 50% opacity background (uiview ?) Uiview is 100% transparent, and the above uilable is transparent

So right now I have a uiview with a uilabel in it. I want the background to have an opacity <1.0 and the label to have an opacity of 1.0. however since Alphas propagate down the view hierarchy, the label ends up with an opacity <1.0 as well.

Is there anyway to do what I want without making the uilabel A subview of another view ??

 

Just set the background color to be semitransparent:

View. backgroundcolor = [[uicolor blackcolor] colorwithalphacomponent: 0.5f];

 

100% opacity uilabel over a 50% opacity background (uiview ?) Uiview is 100% transparent, and the above uilable is transparent