UITableViewCellSeperatorEffectFun

How to use the UITableView seperator effect with vibrancy to help make your cell separators pop like in iOS Notification Center

To get this working you need a UIVisualEffectView to exist in the hierarchy of your UITableView backgroundView. Then you set the tableview's separatorEffect to be a UIVibrancyEffect with the same blur as the backgroundView.

What You Will Find Inside

Inside this project you will find a View Controller that houses a table view and configures its background view as a custom UIView subclass containing a UIVisualEffectView. This custom view houses both the blur view and an imageView.

##TL;DR##

To get the effect running all you need is to configure your table view like so:

Swift

let blurredBackgroundView = BlurredBackgroundView(frame: .zero)
tableView.backgroundView = blurredBackgroundView
tableView.separatorEffect = UIVibrancyEffect(forBlurEffect: blurredBackgroundView.blurView.effect as! UIBlurEffect)

Objective-C

UIVisualEffectView *blur = [[UIVisualEffectView alloc] initWithEffect:[UIBlurEffect effectWithStyle:UIBlurEffectStyleDark]];
tableView.backgroundView = blur;
tableView.separatorEffect = [UIVibrancyEffect effectForBlurEffect:(UIBlurEffect*)blur.effect];

If using a UITableViewController don't forget to set self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];