UITableViewCell selectedBackground shadow not displayed on device - objective-c

Question

This one has me thrown and I'm wondering if anyone can help. I am trying to display a shadow on my selected UITableViewCell and it works fine on the Simulator but not on my iPad 3rd Gen running iOS 7.0.4
I have a subclassed UITableViewCell which is alloc/initting a subclassed UIView as its selectedBackground. All works fine other than it not displaying on the Device.
In my subclassed UITableViewCell...
- (void)awakeFromNib
{
self.selectedBackgroundView = [[OTHD_CellSelectedView alloc] initWithFrame:self.bounds];
}
And in my OTHD_CellSelectedView...
- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame
{
self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
if (self) {
[self createLayer];
}
return self;
}
- (void) createLayer
{
CALayer *the_layer = [CALayer layer];
[self.layer insertSublayer:the_layer atIndex:0];
the_layer.frame = self.bounds;
the_layer.backgroundColor = [[UIColor whiteColor] CGColor];
the_layer.shadowColor = [UIColor blackColor].CGColor;
the_layer.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0, 0);
the_layer.shadowRadius = 10.0;
the_layer.shadowOpacity = 0.7;
}

Answer 1

I think you should bringToFront the cell in Table I have tried this and it is working for me... I hope this will help you:
- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
return 10;
}
- (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
UITableViewCell *cell = [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:#"Cell"];
if (!cell)
{
cell = [[UITableViewCell alloc] initWithStyle:(UITableViewCellStyleDefault) reuseIdentifier:#"Cell"];
}
if (indexPath.row == selected)
{
cell.layer.backgroundColor = [[UIColor whiteColor] CGColor];
cell.layer.shadowColor = [UIColor blackColor].CGColor;
cell.layer.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0, 0);
cell.layer.shadowRadius = 10.0;
cell.layer.shadowOpacity = 0.7;
[cell.superview bringSubviewToFront:cell];
}
else
{
cell.layer.shadowOpacity = 0;
}
return cell;
}
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath
{
selected = indexPath.row;
[tableView reloadData];
[tableView reloadRowsAtIndexPaths:[NSArray arrayWithObject:indexPath] withRowAnimation:(UITableViewRowAnimationNone)];
}