iOS 8 UITableView separator inset 0 not working

Question

I have an app where the UITableView\'s separator inset is set to custom values - Right 0, Left 0. This works perfectly in iOS 7.

Answer 1

Here's an easy way to globally remove the inset.

In UITableViewCell+Extensions.swift:

import UIKit

extension UITableViewCell {

  override public var layoutMargins: UIEdgeInsets {
    get { return UIEdgeInsetsZero }
    set { }
  }

}

In AppDelegate application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions::

  UITableViewCell.appearance().separatorInset = UIEdgeInsetsZero

You might think to a) also just override separatorInset in the extension, or b) set the appearance proxy for layoutMargins, instead. Neither will work. Even though separatorInset is indicated to be a property, attempting to override it as a property (or method) generates compiler errors. And setting the appearance proxy for UITableViewCell's layoutMargins (or, for that matter, also setting the appearance proxies for UITableView's layoutMargins and separatorInset) has no effect.