How do I set UITableViewCellSelectionStyle property to some custom color?

Question

I am developing an iPhone application, in my table view I wanted custom color for Cell Selection Style, I read the UITableViewCell Class Reference but there are onl

Answer 1

Setting the selectedBackgroundView seems to have no effect when the cell.selectionStyle is set to UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone. When I don't set the style is just uses the default gray.

Using the first suggestion that inserts the custom UIView into the cell does manipulate the cell but it doesn't show up when the cell is touched, only after the selected action is completed which is too late because I'm pushing to a new view. How do I get the selected view in the cell to display before the beginning of the selected operation?

Answer 2

To add a custom color use the below code. And to make it transparent use alpha: 0.0

cell.selectedBackgroundView = UIView(frame: CGRect.zero)
cell.selectedBackgroundView?.backgroundColor = UIColor(red:0.27, green:0.71, blue:0.73, alpha:1.0)

If you use custom color and want to give it rounded corner look use:

cell.layer.cornerRadius = 8

Also, use this for better animation and feel

func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {

    tableView.deselectRow(at: indexPath, animated: true)
}

Answer 3

I tried some of the above, and I actually prefer to create my own subclass of UITableViewCell and then override the touchesBegan/touchesCancelled/touchesEnded methods. To do this, ignore all the selectedBackgroundView and highlightedColor properties on the cell, and instead just set these colors manually whenever one of the above methods are called. For example, if you want to set the cell to have a green background with red text, try this (within your custom cell subclass):

- (void)touchesBegan:(NSSet *)touches withEvent:(UIEvent *)event
{
    //Set backgorund
    self.backgroundColor = [UIColor themeBlue];

    //Set text
    self.textLabel.textColor = [UIColor themeWhite];

    //Call super
    [super touchesBegan:touches withEvent:event];
}

Note that for this to work, you need to set:

self.selectionStyle = UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone;

Otherwise, you'll first get the current selection style.

EDIT: I suggest using the touchesCancelled method to revert back to the original cell colors, but just ignore the touchesEnded method.