How do I change the color of the side Alphabet in an indexed UITableView?

Question

I have a table view with an alphabetical index and am using the side alphabet to get through the list quickly. For those not familiar, that uses this:

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Answer 1

I was having the same problem and just found out a way of doing this, though this is using undocumented classes and methods so think one extra time before trying to upload it to the App Store. I should say that i've only tried this with iOS5 so I don't know if it will work for previous versions.

I borrowed and modified the Erica Saunders cookbook example so that it now changes the text color to red:

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tv cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {    

  for(UIView *view in [tv subviews])
  {
    if([[[view class] description] isEqualToString:@"UITableViewIndex"])
    {
      [view performSelector:@selector(setIndexColor:) withObject:[UIColor redColor]];
    }
  }

  //rest of cellForRow handling...

}