Adding a subview to UITableCellView

Question

I want to add a subview to the UITableCellView class. However, non of the provided views in the class seem to be able to do exactly what I was looking for.

I basically want to add my own background view, filling the whole cell. However, if I replace the backgroundView, the style from the grouped table view layout isn't displayed anymore. If I add a subview to backgroundView, the subview is not shown at all. If I add a subview to the contentView, I can't draw behind the accessory icon.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

You might want to take a look at this article:

"Easy custom UITableView Drawing"

In particular:

First: the UITableView does not itself draw anything except the background. To customize the background of a UITableView, all you need to do is set its backgroundColor to [UIColor clearColor] and you can draw your own background in a view behind the UITableView.

Answer 2

Basically you can't change the backgorund of GroupedTable View.

Try using it with PlainTable.

and add the your backgroung image (of size = cellsize) to cellforRowAtIndex method.

Answer 3

Simply add the custom view as part of your contentView. Set a unique reuse identifier for that cell, configure it when you create it and from then on simply reset the data components (this is easiest to do if you create a custom cell controller class so that it can track all the parts and use setters/getters for the data).