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

Just spent some time on this weird issue. I did not want to set UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone style to preserve nice animation when my row was selected. But none of suggested ideas worked for me - I was trying to override setSelected and setHighlighted and set my subview backgroundColor there - it was keeping resetting by iOS and still blinking (new color -> old color). For me the fix was quite simple. When my row is selected another view controller is pushed, user chooses some option on that screen and delegate is called where I change the color based on user selection. In this delegate I just do [cell setSelected:NO animated:NO] for my cell. (I have static UITableViewController and have outlets to cells). You could probably deselect cell in didSelect method but in my case I'm using segues.