Our buttons tend to blend into the background slightly, so let's add a new view that will help them stand out better. First, let's navigate to our storyboard and create a new outlet for our background image. Select our MenuViewController
class, and open the assistant editor. Control drag from the background image in our storyboard to the MenuViewController.h
file (between @interface
and @end
). Name this outlet mainBackground
. Now switch to MenuViewController.m
, and add the following code to ViewDidLoad
:
// Create a white transparent bar for the bottom of the screen // Set the color to white with an alpha of 0.5 UIView *bottomBarBG = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, self.view.bounds.size.height - 130, self.view.bounds.size.width, 130)]; bottomBarBG.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:1.0f alpha:0.5f]; // Add the view to the background [self.view insertSubview:bottomBarBG aboveSubview:self.mainBackground];
The first line creates a new UIView
and...