Change iPhone tableview (style grouped) background color while preserving texture

Question

How can we change the background color of tableview (style grouped) while still preserving texture of thin columns/lines effect that we can see when it has the default blue color.If i try to change background color using backgroundcolor property i get a plain view without any texture.

thanks

score 75 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 18 '12 at 06:07

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tableview.backgroundView = nil;
tableview.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];

This may help you in solving your problem

answered Sep 18 '12 at 06:07

Aswathy Bose

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Worked for me too, but I set the backGroundColor to the color I wanted instead of making it `clearColor` – Ali Oct 02 '12 at 20:58
@Ali Yes you can set the background color as per your requirements.tableview.backgroundView = nil will help you to remove the plain view from the grouped table. – Aswathy Bose Oct 03 '12 at 03:29

score 13 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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Firstly, you could try searching on Stack overflow for your exact question. Here's two:

If that doesn't help, try to make the background colour of the table view transparent [UIColor clearColor] and put another view behind your UITableview containing the colout/texture/image you need.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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answered Jun 01 '09 at 08:39

Rog

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Making the background color transparent will result in bad performance, methinks. – Jonathan Sterling Mar 03 '10 at 03:42
depends what you're after. It will but it might not kill your app. – Rog Mar 15 '10 at 13:16
Once I set the cell background color to clear it worked. Thanks. – Miha Hribar Sep 08 '11 at 09:50
Great! Just what I was looking for! – Jan 22 '12 at 16:12

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 11 '12 at 13:55

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Create the property of tableView:

@property (nonatomic, strong) IBOutlet UITableView *tableView;

Then synthesize it:

@synthesize tableView = _tableView;

In implementation create method:

- (UITableView *) tableView {
  [_tableView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
  return _tableView;
}

Remember also to connect your tableView in xib file, and it should work.

answered Sep 11 '12 at 13:55

edzio27

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This is bad practice, you're much better off doing this customisation in viewDidLoad (it's confusing and your UI calls will be repeated each time table is accessed) – Ege Akpinar May 17 '13 at 07:34

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 15 '16 at 13:45

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Without needing to write code, simply select Clear Color for the table view's Background property in the View section.

answered Sep 15 '16 at 13:45

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Change iPhone tableview (style grouped) background color while preserving texture

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