Question

In a UITableView grouped style, the background of the table view is sort of like a grayish texture color. How can I grab that value such that I can set the entire background of a UIViewController to be that color?

Answer 1

If you are developing for the iPhone and iPod touch, UIColor defines a groupTableViewBackgroundColor pattern that you can use:

[self.view setBackgroundColor:[UIColor groupTableViewBackgroundColor]];

You can also find this color in Interface Builder:

This won’t be available on the iPad, however. You’ll have to grab the image yourself and do a UIColor.colorWithPatternImage: instead.