Selected UIButton disappears inside selected UITableViewCell

Question

I have a table, I have cellForRowAtIndexPath delegate for it and I have instance of UITableViewCell being created inside that method, which I return. Somewhere in cellForRow

Answer 1

The trick is to add UIButton as a subview onto UIImageView.

1. Create UIImage

   UIImage backgroundImg = [UIImage imageName:@"yourimg"];
   UIImageView imageView = [UIImageView alloc]initWithImage:backgrounding];
   

2. Now create the button

   UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
   // set the frame. the position of the button is the center 
   CGRect newIconRect = CGRectMake(imageView.center.x, imageView.center.y, 29, 29);
   
   button.frame = newIconRect;
   

3. Finally add the button onto UIImageView

   [imageView addSubview:button];
   [cell addSubview imageView];
   

Now you dont have to play with the highlight color.