UITableView / UITableViewCell challenge with transparent background on iPad with iOS7

Question

Last night I decided to upgrade to Xcode 5 and take a look at my current project. After updating my storyboards to the new UI everything looked great and ran fine. Since I

Answer 1

After wasting multiple hours with interface builder, I'm thinking that there might be a bug there. So I started to look for a programatic answer. Apparently had I started here I could have saved a ton of time. By adding to the method:

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath

I was able to solve the transparency issue on iPad by adding this one line:

cell.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];  // Adding this fixes the issue for iPad

Hope this helps everyone else with the white background seen for ipad with tables and iOS7!