A complete transparent UITableView

Question

I need a UITableView with no background color at all since I have the same Background image for every page within my app. I know this was asked several times before, but none of the solutions posted here work for me.

I tried the

    .backgroundView = nil  
    .backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor]

thing for cells and tableview but the result was that I got a white background. Some posts said that this is the new iOS7 standard.

I tried to set a color with an alpha value like this

    .backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0 green:0 blue:0 alpha:1];

but that just gives me a black cell instead of a transparent one. So Aparently everything except the alpha value is applied here.

Also I got the problem that if you scroll the table over the "borders" there is still a white background. Is this the normal background of the tableview itself and would not be seen once the tableview did finally has an alpha value?

Oh, ofc appling an opacity-value from 0 in the inspector won't work either.

Am I missing something, is there a new way of doing this, is it even possible to have UITableViews that are complete transparent (excluding labels and images I've put in there of course)?

If that matters, I am currently using xCode 5.1.1

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

Try:

cell.contentView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];