Question

In my appDelegate.m I have this code, but the UILabel is not displaying, but only the UIImageView.

Why?

notificationView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame: CGRectMake(154, 320, 140, 47)];
notificationView.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"notification.png"];

NSString *message = [NSString stringWithString:@"New Videos"];

notificationLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame: CGRectMake(165, 313, 140, 47)]; 
notificationLabel.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:12];
notificationLabel.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentLeft;
notificationLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d %@", numberOfVideos, message];
notificationLabel.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
notificationLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];

notificationView.alpha = 0.0;
notificationLabel.alpha = 0.0;

[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:nil];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:1.5];
notificationView.alpha = 1.0;
notificationLabel.alpha = 1.0;
[UIView commitAnimations];

[self.window addSubview: notificationView];
[self.notificationView addSubview: notificationLabel];

[UIView commitAnimations];  

[notificationView release];
[notificationLabel release];

Answer 1

notificationLabel is a subview of notificationView.
It is placed out of bounds of its superview.

Try

notificationLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame: CGRectMake(0, 0, 140, 47)]; 

and go from there. For all subviews, the top left corner of a super view is (0, 0).