Setting background color of a table view cell on iPhone

Question

I want to achieve the effect where one cell of the table view will have blue background, the next one will have white, the next one will have blue again, and then white and so on... could you let me know how can I do that?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Add this method to your table view delegate:

#pragma mark UITableViewDelegate - (void)tableView: (UITableView*)tableView    willDisplayCell: (UITableViewCell*)cell  forRowAtIndexPath: (NSIndexPath*)indexPath {     cell.backgroundColor = indexPath.row % 2          ? [UIColor colorWithRed: 0.0 green: 0.0 blue: 1.0 alpha: 1.0]          : [UIColor whiteColor];     cell.textLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];     cell.detailTextLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor]; } 

Answer 2

You have to set the background color of the cell's content view

cell.contentView.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed...] 

This will set the background of the whole cell.

To do this for alternate cells, use the indexPath.row and % by 2.