How to customize UIAlertView? Will Apple approve it?

Question

I am using a custom UIAlertView with UITextField to get password from the user.

I have been told that this custom view may cause my App to get

Answer 1

I think there is a better way to solve this. Here is the code snippet

UIAlertView *passwordAlert = [[UIAlertView alloc]                                       
                              initWithTitle:@"Enter Password" message:@""
                              delegate:self 
                              cancelButtonTitle:nil                    
                              otherButtonTitles:@"Submit", nil];

passwordAlert.alertViewStyle = UIAlertViewStyleSecureTextInput;

(You can find related implementations in prodeveloper blog)

But this works fine on iOS 5.0 and above only. Please make a note of it. And Apple will certainly approve it.

Answer 2

You can add a textfield to your UIAlertView

UIAlertView *alertView = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"title" message:@"msg" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel" otherButtonTitles:nil];
UITextField *txtField = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(12.0, 45.0, 260.0, 25.0)];
[alertView addSubview:txtField];
[alertView show];
[alertView release];

Answer 3

If you're concerned about rejection, you can always roll your own view that has animations similar to a UIAlertView. Check this question out here:

How can I customize an iOS alert view?

Answer 4

See my blog post of doing this and its perfectly accepted code by apple. I added this in some of my apps and they all got accepted. So use it without fear!!

Here is the code you can use :

UIAlertView *myAlertView = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Your title here!" message:@"this gets covered" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel" otherButtonTitles:@"OK", nil];
UITextField *myTextField = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(12.0, 45.0, 260.0, 25.0)];
[myTextField setBackgroundColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
[myAlertView addSubview:myTextField];
CGAffineTransform myTransform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(0.0, 130.0);
[myAlertView setTransform:myTransform];
[myAlertView show];
[myAlertView release];

Answer 5

Ya Apple approve the customization of UIAlertview. From iOS 5.0 apple gives alertview type to take credential input.

Here I listed a custom alertview which is able to work on older ios version and orientation custom alertview

thanks,

Naveen Shan

Answer 6

Check below blog tutorial for the complete solution.

http://junecloud.com/journal/code/displaying-a-password-or-text-entry-prompt-on-the-iphone.html?cmd=success#comment3870