UITableView set background color - ios

Question

I change the background color of the UITableViewCells in the tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath method
if(indexPath.row % 2 == 0){
cell.backgroundColor = ...
} else{
cell.backgroundColor = ...
}
But that only change the color of the cell amount specified in tableView:numberOfRowsInSection (As seen in the attached picture, there are white cells after the first four)
Is it possible to change the color of all cells that are displayed on screen?

Answer 1

Open Storyboard
Select your UITableView
Open Attribute inspector
Scroll to View group
Select background color for entire table.

Answer 2

If you want the cell background color to continue to alternate, then you need to lie about how many rows are in the table. Specifically, in tableView:numberOfRowsInSection you need to always return a number that will fill the screen, and in tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath, return a blank cell for rows that are beyond the end of the table. The following code demonstrates how to do this, assuming that self.dataArray is an NSArray of NSStrings.
- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
if ( self.dataArray.count < 10 )
return( 10 );
else
return( self.dataArray.count );
}
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:#"SimpleCell"];
if ( indexPath.row % 2 == 0 )
cell.backgroundColor = [UIColor orangeColor];
else
cell.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
if ( indexPath.row < self.dataArray.count )
cell.textLabel.text = self.dataArray[indexPath.row];
else
cell.textLabel.text = nil;
return cell;
}

Answer 3

Try like this:-
self.tableView.backgroundView.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];

Answer 4

In swift, you can change tableview background color or you can set image to tableview background color like this;
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.navigationController?.view.backgroundColor = UIColor(patternImage: UIImage(named: "background.png")!)
self.tableView.backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor()
}
// change cell text color and background color
override func tableView(tableView: UITableView, willDisplayCell cell: UITableViewCell, forRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {
cell.backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor()
}

Answer 5

I used this to color alternate cell in a table view
func tableView(tableView: UITableView, willDisplayCell cell: UITableViewCell,
forRowAtIndexPath indexPath: NSIndexPath) {
if (indexPath.row % 2 == 0)
{
cell.backgroundColor = UIColor.grayColor()
}
else
{
cell.backgroundColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
}
}

Answer 6

You need to set the tableview's backgroundView to nil and its backgroundColor to the desired color.

Answer 7

For SWIFT
Thanks to #Irshad Qureshi I was able to get alternating background colors for my prototype cells by adding the following in my cellForRowAtIndexPath:
if (indexPath.row % 2 == 0)
{
cell!.backgroundColor = UIColor.groupTableViewBackgroundColor()
}
else
{
cell!.backgroundColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
}

Answer 8

Swift 5 and up
override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, willDisplay cell: UITableViewCell, forRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
//Set Clear Backcolor
//cell.backgroundColor = .clear
//or in your case
if ( indexPath.row % 2 == 0 )
cell.backgroundColor = .orange
else
cell.backgroundColor = .red
}