I am new to collection views in Objective-C. Can anyone tell me why I can't see my UILabel embedded in the transparent UIView and the best way to resolve. I want to also segue from the cell to several various UIViewControllers based on the selected index cell. I am using GitHub project https://github.com/mayuur/MJParallaxCollectionView Overall, in MJRootViewController.m I wanted to add a UIView with a transparency and a UILabel with details of the cell from a array. MJCollectionViewCell.h // MJCollectionViewCell.h // RCCPeakableImageSample // // Created by Mayur on 4/1/14. // Copyright (c) 2014 RCCBox. All rights reserved. // #import <UIKit/UIKit.h> #define IMAGE_HEIGHT 200 #define IMAGE_OFFSET_SPEED 25 @interface MJCollectionViewCell : UICollectionViewCell /* image used in the cell which will be having the parallax effect */ @property (nonatomic, strong, readwrite) UIImage *image; /* Image will always animate according to the imageOffset provided. Higher the value means higher offset for the image */ @property (nonatomic, assign, readwrite) CGPoint imageOffset; //@property (nonatomic,readwrite) UILabel *textLabel; @property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UILabel *textLabel; @property (nonatomic,readwrite) NSString *text; @property(nonatomic,readwrite) CGFloat x,y,width,height; @property (nonatomic,readwrite) NSInteger lineSpacing; @property (nonatomic, strong) IBOutlet UIView* overlayView; @end MJCollectionViewCell.m // // MJCollectionViewCell.m // RCCPeakableImageSample // // Created by Mayur on 4/1/14. // Copyright (c) 2014 RCCBox. All rights reserved. // #import "MJCollectionViewCell.h" @interface MJCollectionViewCell() @property (nonatomic, strong, readwrite) UIImageView *MJImageView; @end @implementation MJCollectionViewCell - (instancetype)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame { self = [super initWithFrame:frame]; if (self) [self setupImageView]; return self; } - (id)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)aDecoder { self = [super initWithCoder:aDecoder]; if (self) [self setupImageView]; return self; } /* // Only override drawRect: if you perform custom drawing. // An empty implementation adversely affects performance during animation. - (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect { // Drawing code } */ #pragma mark - Setup Method - (void)setupImageView { // Clip subviews self.clipsToBounds = YES; // Add image subview self.MJImageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(self.bounds.origin.x, self.bounds.origin.y, self.bounds.size.width, IMAGE_HEIGHT)]; self.MJImageView.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor]; self.MJImageView.contentMode = UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFill; self.MJImageView.clipsToBounds = NO; [self addSubview:self.MJImageView]; } # pragma mark - Setters - (void)setImage:(UIImage *)image { // Store image self.MJImageView.image = image; // Update padding [self setImageOffset:self.imageOffset]; } - (void)setImageOffset:(CGPoint)imageOffset { // Store padding value _imageOffset = imageOffset; // Grow image view CGRect frame = self.MJImageView.bounds; CGRect offsetFrame = CGRectOffset(frame, _imageOffset.x, _imageOffset.y); self.MJImageView.frame = offsetFrame; } - (void)setText:(NSString *)text{ _text=text; if (!self.textLabel) { CGFloat realH=self.height*2/3-self.lineSpacing; CGFloat latoA=realH/3; // self.textLabel=[[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10,latoA/2, self.width-20, realH)]; self.textLabel.layer.anchorPoint=CGPointMake(.5, .5); self.textLabel.font=[UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-ultralight" size:38]; self.textLabel.numberOfLines=3; self.textLabel.textColor=[UIColor whiteColor]; self.textLabel.shadowColor=[UIColor blackColor]; self.textLabel.shadowOffset=CGSizeMake(1, 1); self.textLabel.transform=CGAffineTransformMakeRotation(-(asin(latoA/(sqrt(self.width*self.width+latoA*latoA))))); [self addSubview:self.textLabel]; } self.textLabel.text=text; } @end MJViewController.h // // MJViewController.h // ParallaxImages // // Created by Mayur on 4/1/14. // Copyright (c) 2014 sky. All rights reserved. // #import <UIKit/UIKit.h> @interface MJRootViewController : UIViewController{ NSInteger choosed; } @end MJViewController.m // // MJViewController.m // ParallaxImages // // Created by Mayur on 4/1/14. // Copyright (c) 2014 sky. All rights reserved. // #import "MJRootViewController.h" #import "MJCollectionViewCell.h" @interface MJRootViewController () <UICollectionViewDataSource, UICollectionViewDelegate, UIScrollViewDelegate> @property (weak, nonatomic) IBOutlet UICollectionView *parallaxCollectionView; @property (nonatomic, strong) NSMutableArray* images; @end @implementation MJRootViewController - (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib. //self.navigationController.navigationBarHidden=YES; // Fill image array with images NSUInteger index; for (index = 0; index < 14; ++index) { // Setup image name NSString *name = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"image%03ld.jpg", (unsigned long)index]; if(!self.images) self.images = [NSMutableArray arrayWithCapacity:0]; [self.images addObject:name]; } [self.parallaxCollectionView reloadData]; } - (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning { [super didReceiveMemoryWarning]; // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated. } #pragma mark - UICollectionViewDatasource Methods - (NSInteger)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView numberOfItemsInSection:(NSInteger)section { return self.images.count; } - (UICollectionViewCell *)collectionView:(UICollectionView *)collectionView cellForItemAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { MJCollectionViewCell* cell = [collectionView dequeueReusableCellWithReuseIdentifier:@"MJCell" forIndexPath:indexPath]; //get image name and assign NSString* imageName = [self.images objectAtIndex:indexPath.item]; cell.image = [UIImage imageNamed:imageName]; //set offset accordingly CGFloat yOffset = ((self.parallaxCollectionView.contentOffset.y - cell.frame.origin.y) / IMAGE_HEIGHT) * IMAGE_OFFSET_SPEED; cell.imageOffset = CGPointMake(0.0f, yOffset); NSString *text; NSInteger index=choosed>=0 ? choosed : indexPath.row%5; switch (index) { case 0: text=@"I am the home cell..."; break; case 1: text=@"I am next..."; break; case 2: text=@"Cell 3..."; break; case 3: text=@"Cell 4..."; break; case 4: text=@"The last cell"; break; default: break; } cell.text=text; cell.overlayView.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:0.0f alpha:0.4f]; //cell.textLabel.text = @"Label showing"; cell.textLabel.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:22.0f]; cell.textLabel.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor]; //This is another attempt to display the label by using tags. //UILabel* label = (UILabel*)[cell viewWithTag:1]; //label.text = @"Label works"; return cell; } #pragma mark - UIScrollViewdelegate methods - (void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView { for(MJCollectionViewCell *view in self.parallaxCollectionView.visibleCells) { CGFloat yOffset = ((self.parallaxCollectionView.contentOffset.y - view.frame.origin.y) / IMAGE_HEIGHT) * IMAGE_OFFSET_SPEED; view.imageOffset = CGPointMake(0.0f, yOffset); } } @end