Table View on The Dangling Pointerhttps://aaron.blog/tags/table-view/Recent content in Table View on The Dangling PointerHugoen-usThu, 07 Jul 2011 20:02:48 +0000iOS - Customize Table View Cellshttps://aaron.blog/ios-customize-table-view-cells/Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:02:48 +0000https://aaron.blog/ios-customize-table-view-cells/<p>Ever wanted to have alternated colors on your table view cells? If so, you've probably done something inside of cellForRowAtIndexPath and applied a background color to your cell there.</p><p>Would you be surprised to know that's completely wrong?  Yup.  Wrong.  WRONG WRONG WRONG.</p><p>I didn't know this, but any styles applied to cells based on state or whatever should really be in willDisplayCell - NOT when you configure the cell itself!  Per <a href="http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UIKit/Reference/UITableViewDelegate_Protocol/Reference/Reference.html" rel="noopener">Apple's documentation</a> for the Table View delegate -</p>