UITableView in a Today Extension not receiving row taps

Question

I have a iOS 8 app with a Today Extension. The extension has a UITableView in it and it is rendering correctly. However, didSelectRowAtIndexPath doesn't seem to get called reliably. I am guessing this is because Notification Center is a UIScrollView and embedding a UITableView in those causes some issues, but I am not sure.

Does anyone know what might be causing this issue?

Answer 1

Workaround: set the opacity to 0.01 like this:

self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:1 alpha:0.01];

Answer 2

This worked for me in Swift 2.1 / iOS 9.1:

self.view.backgroundColor = UIColor(red: (255.0/255.0), green: (255.0/255.0), blue: (255.0/255.0), alpha: 0.01)