UITableView in a Today Extension not receiving row taps

Question

I have a iOS 8 app with a Today Extension. The extension has a UITableView in it and it is rendering correctly. However, didSelectRowAtIndexPath doesn't seem to get called reliably. I am guessing this is because Notification Center is a UIScrollView and embedding a UITableView in those causes some issues, but I am not sure.

Does anyone know what might be causing this issue?

Chappell

Possibly related: #26224037 – Julissa

i think the workaround mentioned as "possibly related" above and the answers below is not quite the answer to this question; i've tried the solutions mentioned, and for the problem that those answers are trying to solve, stretching the Label to cover the entire contentView works for me. however, i also have the problem of, after scrolling the entire Today page, tapping on a tableView row doesn't work the first time, but does every time thereafter. i think the guess that it's an anomaly of the tableView being embedded in the scrolling today extension page is correct. haven't yet solved it. – Styles

I have the same issue after scrolling. It does not work even if you have 100% solid colours. I am sure this is Apple's bug. – Pouter

Answer 1

Workaround: set the opacity to 0.01 like this:

self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:1 alpha:0.01];

Denisdenise

i've same issue, but this not worked on xcode 9. any other way to solve this issue? – Hellespont

Answer 2

This worked for me in Swift 2.1 / iOS 9.1:

self.view.backgroundColor = UIColor(red: (255.0/255.0), green: (255.0/255.0), blue: (255.0/255.0), alpha: 0.01)

Maladminister

Answer 3

I had a UITableView in an extension. The height of the extension's view was determined by a height constraint. The cells reacted to taps only sporadically.

What solved this problem was setting preferredContentSize instead of using a constraint.

Impressible