iOS 8 UITableView background color appearance

Question

Xcode 6 beta 6, trying to change all UITableView's background colours in appearance proxy:

[[UITableView appearance] setBackgroundColor:[UIColor redColor]]

But seems that it doesn't work.

Steps to reproduce:

1 Create single view project

2 Add UITableView to ViewController in storyboard

3 Set delegates to view controller and change background in IB:

4 Add dynamic cell and configure data source:

- (NSInteger)numberOfSectionsInTableView:(UITableView *)tableView {
  return 2;
}

- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section {
  return 2;
}

- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
  UITableViewCell* cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:@"Cell1Identifier" forIndexPath:indexPath];
  return cell;
}

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
  return 60.f;
}

5 In app delegate:

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
  // Override point for customization after application launch.
  [[UITableView appearance] setBackgroundColor:[UIColor redColor]];

  return YES;
}

6 Run app and watch incorrect colour:

Any suggestions how to fix it? Setting background color for every table doesn't look like good solution.

Answer 1

try to "reset" the BackgroundColor to "Default" in the InterfaceBuilder (even if its already Default, you'll see a little color change)

this doesn't works with grouped style tableviews

UPDATE:

this worked for me

[[UIScrollView appearance] setBackgroundColor:[UIColor redColor]];

Answer 2

Clear color for TableViewCell not working in Tablet in XCode 6. The following workaround solve for me.

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView willDisplayCell:(UITableViewCell *)cell forRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {

     cell.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
}