Setting background color of a table view cell on iPhone

Question

I want to achieve the effect where one cell of the table view will have blue background, the next one will have white, the next one will have blue again, and then white and

Answer 1

//time saving method:

//in cell for index method:

static NSString* evenIdentifier = @"even";
static NSString* oddIdentifier = @"odd";

__weak identifier;
if(indexPath.row %2 ==0)
{
    identifier = evenIdentifier;
}else{
    identifier = oddIdentifier;
}

cell = dequeue..WithIdentifier: identifier;
if(cell == nil){
    cell = allocOrLoadNib...;
    cell.backgroundColor = (indexPath.row %2 ==0 ? evenColor : oddColor);
}

// change the cell content and then return it. Easy job.

// this is a outline code. Please not copy it directly.