UITableViewCell selector setSelected:animated: gets called many times?

Question

I\'ve discovered a strange behavior with setSelected:animated: in my custom UITableViewCell class. I discovered that this function gets called multiple times if

Answer 1

This is a normal behavior if you're using iPad. (it is only called once on iPhone).

In order to stop getting multiple "setSelected:YES" or multiple "setSelected:NO", all you have to do is this:

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    [tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:indexPath animated:YES];
}

Now, 1 click on any cell gives you:

• 1 entry of setSelected:YES animated:NO
• 1 entry of tableView: didSelectRowAtIndexPath:
• 1 entry of setSelected:NO animated:YES

So, calls are now stable regardless of what you do.