Adding TextField to UIAlertView

Question

I need to add a TextField to an UIAlertView. I understand that apple discourage this approach. So is there any library that i could make use of to add

Answer 1

Try something like this:

UIAlertView *alert = [[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Title"
                                                 message:@"\n\n"
                                                delegate:self
                                       cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel"
                                       otherButtonTitles:@"Save", nil] autorelease];
CGRect rect = {12, 60, 260, 25};
UITextField *dirField = [[[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:rect] autorelease];
dirField.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
[dirField becomeFirstResponder];
[alert addSubview:dirField];

[alert show];

Answer 2

Unfortunately the only official API for this is iOS 5 and up, it's a property called alertViewStyle which can be set to the following parameters:

UIAlertViewStyleDefault
UIAlertViewStyleSecureTextInput
UIAlertViewStylePlainTextInput
UIAlertViewStyleLoginAndPasswordInput

UIAlertViewStylePlainTextInput being the one you want.

Messing with the view hierarchy as described above is strongly discouraged by Apple.

Answer 3

adding to answer from 'Shmidt', the code to capture text entered in UIAlertView is pasted below (thank you 'Wayne Hartman' Getting text from UIAlertView)

- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex {
    if (buttonIndex == 1) {
        self.userNumber = [alertView textFieldAtIndex:0].text;
        if (self.userNumber) {
            // user enetered value
            NSLog(@"self.userNumber: %@",self.userNumber);
        } else {
            NSLog(@"null");
        }

    }
}

Answer 4

first of All Add UIAlertViewDelegate into ViewController.h File like

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface UIViewController : UITableViewController<UIAlertViewDelegate>

@end

and than Add Below Code where you wants to alert Display,

UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Title"
                                            message:@"Message"
                                           delegate:self
                                  cancelButtonTitle:@"Done"
                                  otherButtonTitles:nil];
alert.alertViewStyle = UIAlertViewStylePlainTextInput;
[alert show];

and it's delegate method which returns what input of UItextField

-(void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex
{
NSLog(@"%@", [alertView textFieldAtIndex:0].text);
}

Answer 5

As of iOS 8 UIAlertView has been deprecated in favor of UIAlertController, which adds support for adding UITextFields using the method:

- (void)addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler:(void (^)(UITextField *textField))configurationHandler;

See this answer for an example.

Answer 6

refer this... http://iosdevelopertips.com/undocumented/alert-with-textfields.html this is private api and if you use it for app in appstore it might get rejected but it is fine for enterprise development.