UIView backgroundColor disappears when UITableViewCell is selected

Question

I have a simple tableViewCell build in interface builder. It contains a UIView which contains an image. Now, when I select the cell, the default blue selection background is

Answer 1

When your UITableViewCell is selected, there are two states you should pay attention to: Highlighted and Selected.

So, for scenarios that you have a custom cell class which is subclass of UITableViewCell, you can easily override these two methods to avoid this situation(Swift):

class MyCell: UITableViewCell {

    @IBOutlet var myView: UIView!

    override func setHighlighted(highlighted: Bool, animated: Bool) {
        let myViewBackgroundColor = myView.backgroundColor
        super.setHighlighted(highlighted, animated: animated)
        myView.backgroundColor = myViewBackgroundColor
    }

    override func setSelected(selected: Bool, animated: Bool) {
        let myViewBackgroundColor = myView.backgroundColor
        super.setSelected(selected, animated: animated)
        myView.backgroundColor = myViewBackgroundColor
    }

}