UITableView backgroundColor always gray on iPad

Question

When I set the backgroundColor for my UITableView it works fine on iPhone (device and simulator) but NOT on the iPad simulator. Instead I get a lig

Answer 1

If your application targets both iPhone and iPad you can do it like this:

[myTableView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]]; // this is for iPhone

if ([[UIDevice currentDevice] userInterfaceIdiom] != UIUserInterfaceIdiomPhone) {
    [myTableView setBackgroundView:nil];
    [myTableView setBackgroundView:[[UIView alloc] init]];
} // this is for iPad only

Notice that the TableView alloc doesn't have autorelease for ARC.