ios7 UITableViewCell selectionStyle won't go back to blue - uitableview

Question

Xcode 5.0, iOS 7 and updating an existing app. UITableView selected row is now gray, not blue.
From what I've read they changed the default selectionStyle to gray. But "Blue" is still an option in IB and UITableViewCellSelectionStyleBlue still exists. Checking out the new HIG, it doesn't look like they removed the blue and the "Settings" app still using blue cell selection.
I've tried setting the value in IB and in code, but no luck. Any ideas on what I need to do to get the blue selection style back?

Answer 1

There is only one selectionStyle in iOS7, to change you need to do this manually like below:
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
....
UIView *bgColorView = [[UIView alloc] init];
bgColorView.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:(76.0/255.0) green:(161.0/255.0) blue:(255.0/255.0) alpha:1.0]; // perfect color suggested by #mohamadHafez
bgColorView.layer.masksToBounds = YES;
cell.selectedBackgroundView = bgColorView;
....
return cell;
}

Answer 2

I know this has already been answered but the last thing I wanted to do was touch all of my cellForRowAtIndexPath methods. So, I used an appearance proxy in my App Delegate. I took #null's code above to set the selected background view and in the applicationDidFinishLaunching:withOptions: method I placed this code.
UIView *bgColorView = [[UIView alloc] init];
//the rest of null's code to make the view
[[UITableViewCell appearance] setSelectedBackgroundView:bgColorView];
Then to make the white text hi light:
[[UILabel appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UITableViewCell class], nil] setHighlightedTextColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
This made a global change in my app. The appearance proxy was introduced in iOS5 and Mattt has a great article on how to use it at his NSHipster blog.

Answer 3

Probably it could help you. I have my custom cell and to make it selected with needed color I have overwrite setHighlighted and setSelected now it's look like that
#define IOS_7 (floor(NSFoundationVersionNumber) > NSFoundationVersionNumber_iOS_6_1 ? YES : NO)
- (void)setSelected:(BOOL)selected animated:(BOOL)animated
{
[super setSelected:selected animated:animated];
[self changeSelectionColorForSelectedORHiglightedState:selected];
// Configure the view for the selected state
}
- (void)setHighlighted:(BOOL)highlighted animated:(BOOL)animated
{
[super setHighlighted:highlighted animated:animated];
[self changeSelectionColorForSelectedORHiglightedState:highlighted];
}
- (void)changeSelectionColorForSelectedORHiglightedState:(BOOL)state
{
if (IOS_7) {
if (state) {
self.contentView.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];
}
}
}

Answer 4

I know I'm really late to the party, but I'll offer my IOS10 work around as well. Don't touch any of your other code, but add:
-(void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
cell.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];
cell.textLabel.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
... whatever else you do ...
}
-(void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didDeselectRowAtIndexPath:(nonnull NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
cell.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
cell.textLabel.textColor = [UIColor blackColor];
}