Problem
You subclassed UIView, you want to do some custom drawing in drawRect, but no matter what you do or where you draw, the background of the view remains black.

- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect {
 // Drawing code
 CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
 CGContextSetRGBFillColor(context, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0);
 CGContextFillEllipseInRect(context, rect);
}

Solution
In the ViewController, which call the drawing class, add

myDrawingClass.opaque = NO;

- or even nicer. In the drawing class’ init function:

self.opaque = NO;

And not like that
- adding “self.opaque = NO;” in the drawRect: function
- CGContextClearRect(context, rect);
- CGContextSetAlpha(context, 0.5f);