Unable to make UITableViewCell have clear color - ios

This is very straightforward. I've tried this a couple of times, in both tableView:willDisplayCell:forRowAtIndexPath: and tableView:CellForRow:atIndexPath:.
Here is my code:
cell.alpha = 0.0
cell.backgroundView?.alpha = 0.0
cell.contentView.alpha = 0.0
cell.backgroundView?.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear
cell.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear
cell.contentView.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear
I'm pretty sure this should be overkill, but I'm having a really hard time making this work. The cells are being modified inside an if statement because this only applies to certain cells. Yes, I've checked, and the if statement is working as expected. Any ideas?
I am using Xcode version 8.2 beta

You should set:
cell.backgroundColor = .clear
and also you should provide clear color for whole tableView:
tableView.backgroundColor = .clear
I've tested in sample project. I create UIViewController with UITableView. Set the .red color for view of UIViewController. Create UITableView, apply .clear color for cell and tableView. You should see the red colored background - so the cells and tableView are transparent.
Here are example screen(The label is added to .view of UIViewController to make sure that tableView is transparent):

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I use the following to set the selected backgroud color of my UITableViewCells:
let backgroundColorView = UIView()
backgroundColorView.backgroundColor = .red
UITableViewCell.appearance().selectedBackgroundView = backgroundColorView
When I tap to select them, the cell briefly flashes red and then return to the backgroundColor I've set.
When I add:
if cell.isSelected
{
cell.backgroundColor = .red
}
to cellForRowAt indexPath, the cell becomes red when I scroll it out of sight and back again.
How can I make sure that the cell remains red immediately after I tap it?
EDIT:
If I add the following code to cellForRowAt, things work as expected:
let backgroundColorView = UIView()
backgroundColorView.backgroundColor = .red
cell.selectedBackgroundView = backgroundColorView
Could be an iOS bug?

How to set UITableView cell separator to 'None' when selected

I am working on a UITableView with customized cells from a .xib. I have added a blue border to the top and bottom of the .xib to give a customized spacing between the cells. I don't want a separator between the cells so I set the Separator to None in the storyboard. This is the look that it gives me.
This works great until I select a cell, at which point I am seeing this (notice the white separators above and below the selected cell):
I am using this code in the cellForRowAt function to set the color of the selected cell to white, but this also seems to force the separator to be white:
let selectedView = UIView()
selectedView.backgroundColor = .white
cell.selectedBackgroundView = selectedView
I am trying to figure out how to remove the separator lines when the cell is selected. I have tried several things on the storyboard and in code, but haven't found anything that works.For example:
I can't use cell.selectionStyle = .none because I want the cell background to turn white when selected.
This doesn't change anything when called from viewDidAppear: tableView.separatorColor = UIColor.clear
I tried the answer here Hide separator line on one UITableViewCell by Avinash but it didn't do anything.
Any ideas?
I found that this solution worked for me.
I changed my code in the cellForRowAt function to the clear color:
let selectedView = UIView()
selectedView.backgroundColor = .clear
cell.selectedBackgroundView = selectedView
try change the tableView.separatorColor = tableView.backgroundColor
and set you table style to grouped

UITableViewCells bottom edge flickering when app enters foreground

I've build an app which contains an UITableView with a bunch of cells. Inside the cells I've got a view, which fill the whole cell. I've configured the tableview like this:
tableView.separatorStyle = .none
tableView.backgroundColor = UIColor(red: 24/255.0, green: 34/255.0, blue: 41/255.0, alpha: 100)
tableView.separatorColor = UIColor(red: 26/255.0, green: 34/255.0, blue: 40/255.0, alpha: 100)
Whenever the app enters the foreground, I got those little lines flickering for 0.5 seconds or so. To be clear, I don't want those.
And this is how it looks like when the app fully entered the foreground, and how it is supposed to look like:
Any ideas how to get rid of them?
EDIT 1:
I'm starting to doubt that the flickering is related to the separators, because it is only happening between cells in a section, not between the section-cell and the first cell in a section. I've grabbed some screenshots of the view hierarchy and the constraints related to the view (Foreground view) I show in the cell.
EDIT 2:
If I set the top and bottom constraint to -2 instead of 0, there's no flickering at all, however it's not as I want it visually. So the flickering is not related to the separators at all.
Trick for removing the cell separators.
Objective-C
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
self.tableView.tableFooterView = [UIView new];
}
Swift
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
tableView.tableFooterView = UIView()
}
Usually flickering happens when you're returning a wrong heightForRowAtIndexPath.
In your case, you're returning a little smaller than your cell's actual height I guess.
So try to set "clipToBounds" of your cell to "true" and check if it works.
Try setting "Renders with edge antialiasing" to YES in your info.plist.
I think here your issue with UITableViewStyle. Right now you are using UITableViewStyle Grouped. So, line between cell isn't UITableViewCellSeparator it's Group Table 1 pixel header and footer space. So,
I have two solutions:
Either use UITableView background color same as cell background color.
Change UITableView style to Plain
GroupTable SS
or
PlainTable SS
I hope it'll help you. And solve your issue :)
I think it's not related to the separator, because the separator doesn't cover the whole screen, it must be related to your constraints, try changing the background color of the BackgroundContainerView, the DepartureCell and the TableView, one of these 3 views should have the dark grey color as a background color.
Would it be possible that the tableview is inherited from another one and seperatorStyle could be set different in the super class? Then, you need override it.
Set this in viewDidLoad()
tableView.separatorStyle = .none
You can do it as per follows, from your storyboard to avoid that separator from UITableView.
If you set
tableView.separatorStyle = .none
on viewDidLoad(), it will flicker
you need to it before like in viewWillAppear() or in the storyboard
Try setting the tableview separator color with full transparency it might help
tableView.separatorColor = UIColor(red: 26/255.0, green: 34/255.0, blue: 40/255.0, alpha: 0)
Do this in viewWillAppear
If that will not help check the view hierarchy maybe there is an issue with the cell rendering in
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, willDisplay cell: UITableViewCell, forRowAt indexPath: IndexPath)
Check this post and its swift 4 update
or try adding this extension to your ViewController
extension UITableViewCell {
func removeCellSeparators() {
for subview in subviews {
if subview != contentView && subview.frame.width == frame.width {
subview.removeFromSuperview()
}
}
}
}
then try calling it in just before you return the cell
override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "YourCellIdentifier", for: indexPath)
cell.removeSeparators()
return cell
}
if this doesn't help then please post more information about your setup, code or maybe host a minimal version of your app with the tableView having the issue on gitHub so that I can help.
EDIT 1:
Try setting the rowHeight / cellHeight to 15 pixels more than what it currently is if that will solve your problem than the cellHeight is what needs tweaking could be that it only needs to be 2-4 pixels higher. Probably as the app is entering the foreground autolayout is trying to do what it can do show everything as you want however some constraints are ambiguous therefore whilst entering from the background there is the view appearing animation from the system for about half a second and there is your flickering as well.
Can you use Xcode "Debug View Hierarchy" to find question View , and use "KVC" remove that view.
ps. my english is poor , i hope i can help you
From storyboard select table view separator to None.
In Separator Inset select custom and remove left value make it from 15 to 0.
Build and run it again now check.
Make tableView's backgroundColor and separatorColor exactly the same as in:
tableView.backgroundColor = UIColor(red: 24/255.0, green: 34/255.0, blue: 41/255.0, alpha: 100)
tableView.separatorColor = UIColor(red: 24/255.0, green: 34/255.0, blue: 41/255.0, alpha: 100)

UITableView in multi-selection mode removes background colours of all subviews in selected cell

UITableView in multi-selection mode removes background colours of all subviews in selected cell. I want not to change the backgrounds colours of my subviews just show the tick mark on selection. I tried to assign cell's "selectedBackgroundView" and "multipleSelectionBackgroundView" to a transparent view but it didn't work. I also tried to reassign the backgrounds of my subviews in "setEditing" and "setHighlighted" functions of cell but it also didn't work. Is there any other way to fix this issue?
Set the tableView cell Selection to None in the Attributes inspector, or set cell.selectionStyle = .None in code.
for Swift 3
cell.selectionStyle = .gray
cell.selectedBackgroundView = {
let colorView = UIView()
colorView.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear
return colorView
}()

UITableView background color and separator style change not working

I tried to change the background and separator style in a UITableView, but nothing happens. In the snippet below, everything besides those changes works.
This tableView is located in a #IBDesignable UIView. Best part is, that everything shows as it should in the interface builder. The colors change, the separators dissapear.
func getTableViewToDisplayRecords() -> UITableView {
let tableView:UITableView = UITableView(frame: CGRect(origin: CGPoint.zero, size: CGSize(width: self.frame.size.width, height: (self.frame.size.height * 3) / 4)), style: UITableViewStyle.Plain)
tableView.dataSource = self
tableView.delegate = self
tableView.tableFooterView = UIView(frame:CGRectZero)
tableView.backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor()
tableView.separatorStyle = .None
return tableView
}
What could be causing this behavior?
----- EDIT -----
I have managed to do a workaround:
UITableView.appearance().backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor()
UITableView.appearance().separatorStyle = .None
Now everything works fine, although this is not really a solution of the problem. Any new ideas anyone?
Try the code snippet below to change the background colour of UITableview along with no separator between the table cell's.
{
tableView.backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor()
tableView.separatorStyle = UITableViewCellSeparatorStyle.None
}
Also, you need to change the background color of UITableViewCells
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) -> UITableViewCell{
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier("cell", forIndexPath: indexPath) as UITableViewCell
// change the background color of cell, which is by-default white
cell.backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor()
return cell
}
Here is the screenshot with the table background color being red (for demonstration purpose) and no seperator between cell.
And here is another image with table background being red and single line seperator between cell.
Hope this helps!!
I think this is a Bug in UITableView.
When your tableView move to superview, sometimes the 'separatorStyle' property will reset to UITableViewCellSeparatorStyleSingleLine(the default style).
So you must set this property again when you finish frame change. Like this:
[self.view addSubview:_searchContentView];
_searchContentView.separatorStyle = UITableViewCellSeparatorStyleNone;

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