Are there any way to set the UITableView section header color in iOS 7 directly rather creating a new UIView

Question

UITableView's section headers are less identifiable in iOS 7. Are there any way to set the UITableView section header color in iOS 7 directly rather creating a new UIView.

Note: I found some solutions by creating a new UIView in,

- (UIView *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView viewForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section

but I really wanted to keep the Apple's properties except color. Are there any way to do it without this method.

Answer 1

Implement tableView:willDisplayHeaderView:forSection: and update the view that you are passed.

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView willDisplayHeaderView:(UIView *)view forSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    UITableViewHeaderFooterView *v = (UITableViewHeaderFooterView *)view;
    v.backgroundView.backgroundColor = [UIColor darkGrayColor];
}

(assuming that you supplied a UITableViewHeaderFooterView instance in your implementation for tableView:viewForHeaderInSection:)

Answer 2

In the case of Swift 3 the way is to achieve it via UITableViewDelegate method:

override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, willDisplayHeaderView view: UIView, forSection section: Int) {
    if let headerView = view as? UITableViewHeaderFooterView  {
        headerView.backgroundColor = UIColor.gray
    }
}