Unable to change background color of static table view cell on iOS 7 (iPad)

Question

I am unable to change the background color of static UITableViewCells on iOS 7, when running on iPad device. You can easily check this with following setup:

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Answer 1

The only way I could fix this problem was to make the table programmatically instead of using the storyboard. For reference I will post my solution, I hope it can help anyone.

I replaced the uitableviewcontroller for a uiviewcontroller.

then added this:

the header file

#import 

@interface LtHomeViewController : UIViewController 
{
NSArray *mFiles;
NSArray *mPics;
}

@end

And the module file

#import "LtHomeViewController.h"
#import "LtHomeToolbar.h"
#import "LtHomeCustomCell.h"

@interface LtHomeViewController () 

@end

@implementation LtHomeViewController
{
LtHomeToolbar *mainToolbar;
UITableView *theListView;
}

#define TOOLBAR_HEIGHT 64.0f

-(UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle{
 return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;
}

- (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil
{
self = [super initWithNibName:nibNameOrNil bundle:nibBundleOrNil];
if (self) {
    // Custom initialization
}
return self;
}

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];

CGRect toolbarRect = self.view.bounds; // View controller's view bounds
toolbarRect.size.height = TOOLBAR_HEIGHT;

mainToolbar = [[LtHomeToolbar alloc] initWithFrame:toolbarRect]; // At top
mainToolbar.delegate = self;

[self.view addSubview:mainToolbar];

//
mFiles = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:@"../Lumina.app/lumina0.pdf", @"../Lumina.app/lumina8.pdf", @"../Lumina.app/lumina9.pdf", @"../Lumina.app/lumina10.pdf", nil];
mPics = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:@"vol0.jpg", @"vol8.jpg", @"vol9.jpg", @"vol10.jpg", nil];
//
CGRect tableViewFrame = self.view.bounds;
tableViewFrame.origin.y = TOOLBAR_HEIGHT;
tableViewFrame.size.height = self.view.bounds.size.height - TOOLBAR_HEIGHT;

theListView = [[UITableView alloc] initWithFrame:tableViewFrame style:UITableViewStylePlain];
theListView.delegate = self;
theListView.dataSource = self;

theListView.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:(116/255.0) green:(167/255.0) blue:(179/255.0) alpha:1.0];


[self.view addSubview:theListView];
}

#pragma mark - UITableViewDataSource
- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)theTableView
{
   return 1;
}

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)theTableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
   return [mFiles count];
}

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)theTableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
   static NSString *cellIdentifier = @"HomeCell";

   // Similar to UITableViewCell, but
   LtHomeCustomCell *cell = (LtHomeCustomCell *)[theTableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:cellIdentifier];
  if (cell == nil) {
    cell = [[LtHomeCustomCell alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewCellStyleDefault reuseIdentifier:cellIdentifier];
  }

cell.image.image = [UIImage imageNamed:[mPics objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]];

NSString *magName = [[mFiles objectAtIndex:indexPath.row]stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"../Lumina.app/" withString:@""];
magName = [magName stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"lumina" withString:@""];
magName = [magName stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@".pdf" withString:@""];
magName = [[@"Triathlon LUMINA " stringByAppendingString:magName]stringByAppendingString:@"号"];

cell.descriptionLabel.text = magName;

return cell;
}

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView willDisplayCell:(UITableViewCell *)cell forRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
cell.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:(116/255.0) green:(167/255.0) blue:(179/255.0) alpha:1.0];
}

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
return 110;
}

#pragma mark - UITableViewDelegate
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)theTableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
}


@end

Now I don't know if only this line will help you but as I need more things I took the approach of making the table manually

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView willDisplayCell:(UITableViewCell *)cell forRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath 
{
    cell.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:(116/255.0) green:(167/255.0) blue:(179/255.0) alpha:1.0];
}

David