Overview

PrettyTableViewCell is a subclass of UITableViewCell, so it is fully compatible with any UITableView.

PrettyTableViewCell adds a set of customizations such as corner radius, shadow, background gradient, selection gradient customization…

It only uses CoreGraphics under the hood, so you can expect a nice performance.

Using it

In your dataSource tableView:cellForRowAtIndexPath: body, change all references to UITableViewCell to PrettyTableViewCell, and add this call:

[cell prepareForTableView:tableView indexPath:indexPath];

Just by doing that you’ll have a nice cell, like the cells below:

Customizing appearance

PrettyCells are compatible with both grouped and plain tables.

Grouped tables

You can change the cell’s appearance as follows:

• cell’s shadow (border will be disabled when the shadow is enabled).
• cell’s background color or gradient.
• cell’s border color (border will be disabled when the shadow is enabled).
• cell’s corner radius.
• cell’s separator.
• cell’s selection gradient.

Plain tables

You can change the cell’s appearance as follows:

• cell’s background color or gradient.
• cell’s separator.
• cell’s selection gradient.

Performance

It only uses CoreGraphics under the hood, so you can expect a nice performance.

Anyway, you should select the Color Blended Layers option and check how it looks. Furthermore, to even reduce more the transparent regions, you can set the tableViewBackgroundColor property to the table’s background color (tableView.backgroundColor).

Be aware that although the cell is drawn with CoreGraphics, its contents might not. In fact, if you use the properties textLabel, detailTextLabel and so, the performance will be limited by them. So if you need to improve it, take a look at this Twitter article: http://engineering.twitter.com/2012/02/simple-strategies-for-smooth-animation.html and draw the contents by yourself.