Blur effect not appearing in UITableViewCell

Question

I'm trying to add a blur effect to my view. I created the blur effect like so

let blurLabel: UIVisualEffectView = {
    let blurEffect = UIBlurEffect(style: UIBlurEffectStyle.dark)
    let blurEffectView = UIVisualEffectView(effect: blurEffect)


    return blurEffectView
    }()

Then I add it to the subview like so, and set up the constraints with it as well

 override init(style: UITableViewCellStyle, reuseIdentifier: String?) {
        super.init(style: .subtitle, reuseIdentifier: reuseIdentifier)
        let view = tableViewCell

        addSubview(view)
        view.addSubview(blurLabel)

 blurLabel.leftAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.leftAnchor,constant:0).isActive = true
        //blurLabel.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.topAnchor, constant: 178).isActive = true
        blurLabel.widthAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: 375).isActive = true
        blurLabel.heightAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: 180).isActive = true

But when I run the application it doesn't appear at all

Answer 1

Edit: As suggested by @HAS & @Fogmeister, you can also use translatesAutoResizingMaskIntoConstraints = false as it is better solution to use Auto Layout without specifying explicit frames.

You will have to assign frame to UIVisualEffectView like this:

 let blurLabel: UIVisualEffectView = {
    let blurEffect = UIBlurEffect(style: UIBlurEffectStyle.dark)
    let blurEffectView = UIVisualEffectView(effect: blurEffect)
    blurEffectView.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 60, height: 40) //give desirable frame
    return blurEffectView
 }()