iOS 7 UITableView inside a popover - ios

Question

I have a UITableView which has some custom styling. This table view appears in two places in the app, one of which is inside a UIPopoverController. However when the tableview is inside the popover it takes on the default tableview styling as stated in the UI Transition Guide under "Popover".
The problem I have is that there appears to be nowhere to change this behaviour. Regardless of where I try and modify properties of the tableview the view inside the popover doesn't change.
Anyone dealt with this issue before or have any ideas?
Here is the init method of LibraryProductView where I create the table view:
- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame
{
self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
if (self) {
self.sectionOrdering = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:
[NSNumber numberWithInt:LIBRARY_PRODUCT_SECTION_DESCRIPTION],
[NSNumber numberWithInt:LIBRARY_PRODUCT_SECTION_DOCUMENTS],
[NSNumber numberWithInt:LIBRARY_PRODUCT_SECTION_ACTIVE_INGREDIENTS],
[NSNumber numberWithInt:LIBRARY_PRODUCT_SECTION_RELATED_PRODUCTS],
[NSNumber numberWithInt:LIBRARY_PRODUCT_SECTION_RELATED_DOCUMENTS], nil];
self.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
self.tableView = [[UITableView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectInset(self.bounds, 10, 0) style:UITableViewStyleGrouped];
self.tableView.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
self.tableView.dataSource = self;
self.tableView.delegate = self;
self.tableView.separatorColor = [UIColor clearColor];
self.tableView.showsVerticalScrollIndicator = NO;
[self addSubview:self.tableView];
}
return self;
}
Here is where the containing view (LibraryProductView) is added to the popover:
- (IBAction)didTouchInformationButton:(id)sender
{
if (_infoPopover != nil && _infoPopover.isPopoverVisible)
{
[_infoPopover dismissPopoverAnimated:YES];
return;
}
CGSize preferredSize = CGSizeMake(600.0f, 500.0f);
LibraryProductViewController* productController = [[[LibraryProductViewController alloc] initWithPreferredSize:preferredSize] autorelease];
productController.filterByMyCompany = NO;
productController.product = _activityInput.product;
UINavigationController* nav = [[[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:productController] autorelease];
nav.title = _activityInput.product.name;
RELEASE(_infoPopover);
_infoPopover = [[UIPopoverController alloc] initWithContentViewController:nav];
_infoPopover.popoverContentSize = CGSizeMake(preferredSize.width, preferredSize.height + 46);
[_infoPopover presentPopoverFromRect:_infoButton.frame inView:_infoButton permittedArrowDirections:UIPopoverArrowDirectionLeft animated:YES];
}
The LibraryProductView is created within viewDidLoad method of LibraryProductViewController.
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
self.libraryProductView = [[LibraryProductView alloc] initWithFrame:(usingPreferredSize ? CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, preferredSize.width, preferredSize.height) : self.view.bounds)];
self.libraryProductView.dataSource = self;
self.libraryProductView.delegate = self;
[self.view addSubview:self.libraryProductView];
}

Answer 1

To set properties for the TableView you might do so in
- (NSInteger) numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView
{
[tableView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor redcolor]];
[tableView setSeparatorColor: [UIColor blueColor]];
return 1;
}
This, of course, assumes you have set UITableViewDataSource in your .h file