UITableView set background color

Question

I change the background color of the UITableViewCells in the tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath method

    if(indexPath.row % 2 == 0){
        cell.bac         


        

Answer 1

If you want the cell background color to continue to alternate, then you need to lie about how many rows are in the table. Specifically, in tableView:numberOfRowsInSection you need to always return a number that will fill the screen, and in tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath, return a blank cell for rows that are beyond the end of the table. The following code demonstrates how to do this, assuming that self.dataArray is an NSArray of NSStrings.

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    if ( self.dataArray.count < 10 )
        return( 10 );
    else
        return( self.dataArray.count );
}

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
    UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"SimpleCell"];

    if ( indexPath.row % 2 == 0 )
        cell.backgroundColor = [UIColor orangeColor];
    else
        cell.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];

    if ( indexPath.row < self.dataArray.count )
        cell.textLabel.text = self.dataArray[indexPath.row];
    else
        cell.textLabel.text = nil;

    return cell;
}