Custom UI TableViewCell selected backgroundcolor swift

Question

I am trying to change the appearance of a custom selected TableViewCell using Swift.

Do I need to do it via the designer or programmatically?

I tried the fol

Answer 1

The correct (more native & natural) way to do it:

override func awakeFromNib() {
    super.awakeFromNib()
    selectedBackgroundView = UIView()
    selectedBackgroundView?.backgroundColor = .blue
}

Why other approaches are wrong:

1. Highlight solution: highlight is not select. Highlight doesn't animate as Selection does. It doesn't feel natural as a normal Selection would do
2. No need to change the color of selectedBackgroundView in setSelected method, because iOS handles the animation for us.
3. Setting backgroundColor also doesn't behave the same as iOS does it