Question

How can I give a tableView cell background color the fade effect as soon as it appears. I know how to get a cell selected when the table view appears but the color persists for ever. I would like it to stay there for a while (2 seconds or whatever) and then fade away. Can anyone help me with this?

Off the top of my head, I am thinking NSTimer could be called into use here. What do the experts have to say?

Answer 1

Forget about timers, they are just too much work in this case.
Just make a deselectSelectedCell method and call it using an asynchronous call:

    [tableView performSelector:@selector(deselectSelectedCell) withObject:nil afterDelay:2.0];

and the method:

- (void)deselectSelectedCell{
[tableView deselectRowAtIndexPath:[tableView indexPathForSelectedRow] animated:YES]
}

This will deselect the cell, off course.
If you want you cell to remain selected, probably you should change the color of the contentView .