Changing background color of selected cell?

Question

Does anyone know how to change the background color of a cell using UITableViewCell, for each selected cell? I created this UITableViewCell inside the code for TableView.

Answer 1

For iOS7+ and if you are using Interface Builder then subclass your cell and implement:

Objective-C

- (void)awakeFromNib {
    [super awakeFromNib];
    // Default Select background
    UIView *v = [[UIView alloc] init];
    v.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
    self.selectedBackgroundView = v;
}

Swift 2.2

override func awakeFromNib() {
    super.awakeFromNib()
    // Default Select background
    self.selectedBackgroundView = { view in
        view.backgroundColor = .redColor()
        return view
    }(UIView())
}

Answer 2

The default style is gray and it destroys the colors of the cell if it was done programmatically. You can do this to avoid that. (in Swift)
cell.selectionStyle = .None

Answer 3

Check out AdvancedTableViewCells in Apple's sample code.

You'll want to use the composite cell pattern.

Answer 4

I was able to solve this problem by creating a subclass of UITableViewCell and implementing the setSelected:animated: method

- (void)setSelected:(BOOL)selected animated:(BOOL)animated {
    [super setSelected:selected animated:animated];

    // Configure the view for the selected state
    if(selected) {
        [self setSelectionStyle:UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone];
        [self setBackgroundColor:[UIColor greenColor]];
    } else {
        [self setBackgroundColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
    }
}

The trick was setting the

cell.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleDefault;

in the implementing view controller and then in the tableViewCell setting it as

[self setSelectionStyle:UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone];

Hope this helps. :)

Answer 5

If you just want to remove the grey background color do this :

-(void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
     [[tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath] setSelectionStyle:UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone];
}     

Answer 6

in Swift 3, converted from illuminates answer.

override func setSelected(_ selected: Bool, animated: Bool) {
    super.setSelected(selected, animated: animated)
    if(selected) {
        self.selectionStyle = .none
        self.backgroundColor = UIColor.green
    } else {
        self.backgroundColor = UIColor.blue
    }
}

(however the view only changes once the selection is confirmed by releasing your finger)