What is the UIColor of the default UITableView separator?

Question

Can anyone tell me the UIColor name or exact RGBA for the default iPhone UITableView separator?

It looks like a light gray color, but it's not [UIColor lightGrayColor]; it's lighter than that.

Answer 1

The color is not guaranteed to be a specific color. It can be changed over OS and SDK versions. You can retrieve exact color dynamically by accessing separatorColor property.

UITableView* TV = [[UITableView alloc] init];
UIColor* C = [TV separatorColor];
CGColorRef CGC = [C CGColor];

Now you can get the each channel values through UIColor's methods. Or use the CGColor directly for drawing.

Here's header file comment of the property in UITableView.h.

@property(nonatomic,retain) UIColor *separatorColor;
// default is the standard separator gray

If you want to avoid instantiation cost of UITableView for each time, just get it once and cache it.

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As @Isuru noted in comment, you can write in Swift like this.

UITableView().separ‌​atorColor

As @Jordan noted in comment, you also can store the result to avoid further evaluation cost.

let defaultTableSeparato‌​rColor = UITableView().separa‌​torColor