Select First Row as default in UITableView

Question

I have an application that is viewbased and I am adding a tableview as a subview to the main view. I have taken UITableViewDelegate to respond the table methods.

Answer 1

Here is my solution for swift 3.0:

var selectedDefaultIndexPath = false


override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
    super.viewDidAppear(animated)

    if dataSource.isEmpty == false, selectedDefaultIndexPath == false {
        let indexPath = IndexPath(row: 0, section: 0)
        // if have not this, cell.backgroundView will nil.
        tableView.selectRow(at: indexPath, animated: false, scrollPosition: .none)
        // trigger delegate to do something.
        _ = tableView.delegate?.tableView?(tableView, willSelectRowAt: indexPath)
        selectedDefaultIndexPath = true
    }
}

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, willSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> IndexPath? {
    let cell = tableView.cellForRow(at: indexPath)
    cell?.selectedBackgroundView?.backgroundColor = UIColor(hexString: "#F0F0F0")

    return indexPath
}