Question

I know how to put a checkmark as the acessoryView of my UITableViewCell. Unlike the Settings app, my textLabel does not become blue when there’s a checkmark next to it. Is there a simple style property I have to set for this to happen or am I forced to manually change the textColor property on the textLabel? If the latter is true, is this particular shade of blue stored as a constant somewhere?

Answer 1

selectedTextColor has been deprecated in iOS 3.0 so I think you have to use the highlightedTextColor property of the UITableViewCell‘s textLabel property. And I believe [UIColor colorWithRed:50.0/255.0 green:79.0/255.0 blue:132.0/255.0 alpha:1.0] is the correct default shade of blue that is used for highlighted text:

cell.textLabel.highlightedTextColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:50.0/255.0 green:79.0/255.0 blue:132.0/255.0 alpha:1.0];
// cell.textLabel.highlightedTextColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.196 green:0.3098 blue:0.52 alpha:1.0];

UITableViewCell Documentation.

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Yoou might also want a different cell style then the default. UITableViewCellStyleValue1 is what the Settings App uses:

Cell Styles

     typedef enum {
         UITableViewCellStyleDefault,
         UITableViewCellStyleValue1,
         UITableViewCellStyleValue2,
         UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle
     } UITableViewCellStyle; 

     UITableViewCellStyleDefault

A simple style for a cell with a text label (black and left-aligned) and an optional image view. Note
that this is the default style for cells prior to iOS 3.0.

     UITableViewCellStyleValue1

A style for a cell with a label on the left side of the cell with left-aligned and black text; on the right side is a label that has smaller blue text and is right-aligned.
The Settings application uses cells in this style.

     UITableViewCellStyleValue2 

A style for a cell with a label on the left side of the cell with text that is right-aligned and blue; on
the right side of the cell is another label with smaller text that is
left-aligned and black. The Phone/Contacts application uses cells in
this style.

     UITableViewCellStyleSubtitle 

A style for a cell with a left-aligned label across the top and a left-aligned label below it in
smaller gray text. The iPod application uses cells in this style.

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Got the color from this SO question (text-color-to-match-default…)