Change the selected cell background colour using UIAppearance

Question

I need to change the selected cell background colour for all the cells in my app. As I know there is a way to use UIAppearance protocol for this purposes. Is it

Answer 1

As null's answer is not for selected cell backgrounds and Armands L.'s answer did not work consistently for me (selecting cells by 'user-tap' did work, but programmatical cell selection showed strange results (like sometimes the selected background was not visible, or did not fill the cell's height properly...).

I found a custom solution that worked:

1. Subclass UITableViewCell
2. Initialize self.selectedBackgroundView in init and
3. Add custom UIColor property with UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR for custom selected background color

.h file:

@property (nonatomic) UIColor* selectedCellBackgroundColor UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR;

.m file:

in init method(s):

self.selectedBackgroundView = [[UIView alloc] init];

and last but not least the setter function for the color:

- (void) setSelectedCellBackgroundColor:(UIColor*) color {
    _selectedCellBackgroundColor = color;
    self.selectedBackgroundView.backgroundColor = color;
}