Question

I have the following code that creates a UIView that I assign to my UITableViewCell‘s selectedBackgroundView property. Everything works as expected, with the exception of the subview’s background, which is transparent.

I use the same code to create a custom view that I assign to backgroundView, and that works fine.

What is causing that subview to be transparent for selectedBackgroundView, and how can I avoid that?

- (UIView*) makeSelectedBackgroundView
{
    // dimensions only for relative layout
    CGRect containerFrame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 40);

    UIView* containerView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:containerFrame];
    containerView.autoresizesSubviews = YES;

    // dimensions only for relative layout
    CGRect subframe = CGRectMake(5, 5, 310, 30);
    UIView* subview = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:subframe];

    subview.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth | UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight;

    subview.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
    subview.layer.cornerRadius = 5;
    subview.layer.borderWidth = 2;
    subview.layer.borderColor = [UIColor greenColor].CGColor;

    [containerView addSubview:subview];

    return containerView;
}

Answer 1

In the end, I ended up subclassing UITableViewCell which contained a custom view object, and that worked.