UITableView background color iOS 9

Question

I have a UITableView that I want to set its background color to transparent. Background color for the table view and all subviews at interface builder is set to transparent. It works fine for iOS 8 & 7. but, not iOS 9. any idea?

cellForRowAtIndexPath method:

[cell setSelectedBackgroundView:[[UIView alloc] init]];
[cell.selectedBackgroundView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
[cell setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
[cell.contentView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
[cell setBackgroundView:[[UIView alloc] init]];
[cell.backgroundView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];

First, this is not a good idea because the scrolling performance will suffer. Apart from that, I think it's a bug. File a radar. — dasdom, Aug 09 '15 at 12:57
have to tried `cell.contentView.backgroundColor` ? try digging a little more, before reporting.. hmm.. i'm also thinking that it's a bug. — 0yeoj, Aug 09 '15 at 13:18

score 10 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 16 '17 at 14:11

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Objective-c:

[self.yourTableView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];

Swift:

self.yourTableView.backgroundColor = .clear

XCode 7.0 bug. Not picking up from Storyboard

edited Mar 16 '17 at 14:11

hasan

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answered Aug 10 '15 at 12:38

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Yes I figured that out before. – hasan Aug 10 '15 at 12:46
does this bug still there in beta 5? did you try it? – hasan Aug 10 '15 at 12:46
Sorry, I am not trying beta 5. – Vipulk617 Aug 10 '15 at 12:54
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@hasan83 Yes this is still a bug in beta 5 – Rob Aug 10 '15 at 22:32
I have similar issue with constraints - for some screens they're just disappear. – AlexDenisov Aug 26 '15 at 13:44
I think this is an ios9 bug rather than an xCode bug. An app build for ios8 with Xcode 6 is giving a white UITableVIewBackground colour – AndyRyan Sep 07 '15 at 09:24

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 17 '15 at 22:10

This happens to me even when creating an UITableView in code, and setting it as a private property of my UIViewController. However, if the UITableView is a global variable, this problem does not occur.

I suspect Apple is rooting around the ivars on my UIViewController, setting UITableView's background colors to UIColor whiteColor without asking me. I have checked, and the calls to do go through setBackgroundColor on the UITableView.

UITableView background color iOS 9

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