Change the selected cell background colour using UIAppearance

Question

I need to change the selected cell background colour for all the cells in my app. As I know there is a way to use UIAppearance protocol for this purposes. Is it possible to realize this by the category for UITableViewCell?

Answer 1

You can't do this direct to UITableViewCell, but you can do it for its contentView:

[[UIView appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UITableViewCell class], nil] setBackgroundColor:[UIColor redColor]];

Note that it will change all the subViews bg color.

Another option is writing a category or subclass the UITableViewCell with UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR mark, check this question:

iOS: Using UIAppearance to define custom UITableViewCell color