UIColor colorWithRed:green:blue:alpha: always returns white unless one argument is 0

Question

I am using

[UIColor colorWithRed:136 green:155 blue:218 alpha:1.0]; 

to change the background color of my table view cells.

But fo

Answer 1

The params are not integers but floats, so you probably want to divide all color float values with 255. Like this:

  [UIColor colorWithRed:136.0/255 green:155.0/255 blue:218.0/255 alpha:1.0];

That's why the color changes when you set red to 0 instead of 1 which 136 means in this case.