ios7 UITableViewCell selectionStyle won't go back to blue

Question

Xcode 5.0, iOS 7 and updating an existing app. UITableView selected row is now gray, not blue.

From what I\'ve read they changed the default selection

Answer 1

I know I'm really late to the party, but I'll offer my IOS10 work around as well. Don't touch any of your other code, but add:

-(void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
    cell.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];
    cell.textLabel.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];

     ... whatever else you do ...
}


-(void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didDeselectRowAtIndexPath:(nonnull NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
    cell.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
    cell.textLabel.textColor = [UIColor blackColor];
}

Answer 2

Probably it could help you. I have my custom cell and to make it selected with needed color I have overwrite setHighlighted and setSelected now it's look like that

#define IOS_7 (floor(NSFoundationVersionNumber) > NSFoundationVersionNumber_iOS_6_1 ? YES : NO)


    - (void)setSelected:(BOOL)selected animated:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super setSelected:selected animated:animated];
    [self changeSelectionColorForSelectedORHiglightedState:selected];
    // Configure the view for the selected state
}

- (void)setHighlighted:(BOOL)highlighted animated:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super setHighlighted:highlighted animated:animated];
    [self changeSelectionColorForSelectedORHiglightedState:highlighted];
}

- (void)changeSelectionColorForSelectedORHiglightedState:(BOOL)state
{
    if (IOS_7) {
        if (state) {
            self.contentView.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

There is only one selectionStyle in iOS7, to change you need to do this manually like below:

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{ 
    ....
    UIView *bgColorView = [[UIView alloc] init];
    bgColorView.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:(76.0/255.0) green:(161.0/255.0) blue:(255.0/255.0) alpha:1.0]; // perfect color suggested by @mohamadHafez
    bgColorView.layer.masksToBounds = YES;
    cell.selectedBackgroundView = bgColorView;
    ....
    return cell;
}

Answer 4

I know this has already been answered but the last thing I wanted to do was touch all of my cellForRowAtIndexPath methods. So, I used an appearance proxy in my App Delegate. I took @null's code above to set the selected background view and in the applicationDidFinishLaunching:withOptions: method I placed this code.

UIView *bgColorView = [[UIView alloc] init];
//the rest of null's code to make the view
[[UITableViewCell appearance] setSelectedBackgroundView:bgColorView];

Then to make the white text hi light:

[[UILabel appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UITableViewCell class], nil] setHighlightedTextColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];

This made a global change in my app. The appearance proxy was introduced in iOS5 and Mattt has a great article on how to use it at his NSHipster blog.