How to create custom UIAlertView

Question

We\'re creating an immersive app that needs to have something that acts rather similar to a UIAlertView, but we don\'t want it to look like a system dialog, we

Answer 1

You need to create a new Window where you can put your alert view:

UIWindow *alertWindow = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]]; // you must release the window somewhere, when you do not need it anymore
alertWindow.windowLevel = UIWindowLevelAlert; // puts it above the status bar
alertWindow.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
UIViewController *alertVC = [[[YourAlertViewController alloc] init] autorelease];
[alertWindow setRootViewController:alertVC];
[alertWindow setHidden:NO];