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

Ideally you should not be calling setSelected from anywhere in your code. UIKit will take care of calling it.

If you want to show a cell/row as selected in cellForRowAtIndexPath method simply call

tableView.selectRowAtIndexPath(indexPath, animated: true, scrollPosition: .None)

for that specific indexPath.

Again never ever call setSelected explicitly unless you really mean to.