title: Unable to change background color of static table view cell on iOS 7 (iPad)
body: <p>I am unable to change the background color of static UITableViewCells on iOS 7, when running on iPad device. You can easily check this with following setup:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Make a new universal project in Xcode 5 with two storyboards. </li>
  <li>In each storyboard, put only one controller - table view controller, and set it as the initial one.</li>
  <li>Put a few (e.g. 3) static cells in the table view in both controllers/storyboards.</li>
  <li>Set the background color of each static cell to different colors in Interface Builder (I use red, green, and clear colors).</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Now, run the app on iPhone and iPad simulators (iOS 7).</p>
  
  <p>On the iPhone simulator, everything is ok;<br>
  while on the iPad simulator, all cells are colored white.</p>
  
  <p>I tried to force iPad to work correctly by setting runtime properties in Interface Builder for cells:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><code>backgroundColor</code> to clear color</li>
  <li><code>contentView.backgroundColor</code> to clear color</li>
  <li><code>backgroundView</code> to nil</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>but nothing helps. Actually, setting the runtime property of <code>contentView.backgroundColor</code> will change the cell color, but it does not work with clear color (which means there is another view colored in white behind it).</p>
  
  <p>It is very strange that two devices on same version of iOS produce different results. Can anyone else confirm this bug?</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have a solution to this problem, or the only way is to go for dynamic properties + setting color in <code>cellForRowAtIndexPath</code>? I would like to use static cells, because the nature of the problem is static.</p>
  
  <p>p.s. I just realized that I forgot to try to set the <code>backgroundView.backgroundColor</code> runtime property to clear color, and I don't have access to a Mac at the moment. Maybe that would do the trick.</p>