UIAlertController custom font, size, color

Question

I am using new UIAlertController for showing alerts. I have this code:

// nil titles break alert interface on iOS 8.0, so we\'ll be using empty strings
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Answer 1

A bit clunky, but this works for me right now to set background and text colors. I found it here.

UIView * firstView = alertController.view.subviews.firstObject;
    UIView * nextView = firstView.subviews.firstObject;
    nextView.backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor];

Answer 2

Solution/Hack for iOS9

    UIAlertController *alertController = [UIAlertController alertControllerWithTitle:@"Test Error" message:@"This is a test" preferredStyle:UIAlertControllerStyleAlert];

    UIAlertAction *cancelAction = [UIAlertAction actionWithTitle:@"Cancel" style:UIAlertActionStyleCancel handler:^(UIAlertAction *action) {
        NSLog(@"Alert View Displayed");
 [[[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] window] setTintColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
    }];

    [alertController addAction:cancelAction];
    [[[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] window] setTintColor:[UIColor blackColor]];
    [self presentViewController:alertController animated:YES completion:^{
        NSLog(@"View Controller Displayed");
    }];

Answer 3

A Swift translation of the @dupuis2387 answer. Worked out the syntax to set the UIAlertController title's color and font via KVC using the attributedTitle key.

let message = "Some message goes here."
let alertController = UIAlertController(
    title: "", // This gets overridden below.
    message: message,
    preferredStyle: .Alert
)
let okAction = UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: .Cancel) { _ -> Void in
}
alertController.addAction(okAction)

let fontAwesomeHeart = "\u{f004}"
let fontAwesomeFont = UIFont(name: "FontAwesome", size: 17)!
let customTitle:NSString = "I \(fontAwesomeHeart) Swift" // Use NSString, which lets you call rangeOfString()
let systemBoldAttributes:[String : AnyObject] = [ 
    // setting the attributed title wipes out the default bold font,
    // so we need to reconstruct it.
    NSFontAttributeName : UIFont.boldSystemFontOfSize(17)
]
let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: customTitle as String, attributes:systemBoldAttributes)
let fontAwesomeAttributes = [
    NSFontAttributeName: fontAwesomeFont,
    NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.redColor()
]
let matchRange = customTitle.rangeOfString(fontAwesomeHeart)
attributedString.addAttributes(fontAwesomeAttributes, range: matchRange)
alertController.setValue(attributedString, forKey: "attributedTitle")

self.presentViewController(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)

Answer 4

Use UIAppearance protocol. Do more hacks with appearanceFont to change font for UIAlertAction.

Create a category for UILabel

UILabel+FontAppearance.h

@interface UILabel (FontAppearance)

@property (nonatomic, copy) UIFont * appearanceFont UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR;

@end

UILabel+FontAppearance.m

@implementation UILabel (FontAppearance)

- (void)setAppearanceFont:(UIFont *)font
{
    if (self.tag == 1001) {
        return;
    }

    BOOL isBold = (self.font.fontDescriptor.symbolicTraits & UIFontDescriptorTraitBold);
    const CGFloat* colors = CGColorGetComponents(self.textColor.CGColor);

    if (self.font.pointSize == 14) {
        // set font for UIAlertController title
        self.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:11];
    } else if (self.font.pointSize == 13) {
        // set font for UIAlertController message
        self.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:11];
    } else if (isBold) {
        // set font for UIAlertAction with UIAlertActionStyleCancel
        self.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:12];
    } else if ((*colors) == 1) {
        // set font for UIAlertAction with UIAlertActionStyleDestructive
        self.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:13];
    } else {
        // set font for UIAlertAction with UIAlertActionStyleDefault
        self.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:14];
    }
    self.tag = 1001;
}

- (UIFont *)appearanceFont
{
    return self.font;
}

@end

Usage:

add

[[UILabel appearanceWhenContainedIn:UIAlertController.class, nil] setAppearanceFont:nil];

in AppDelegate.m to make it work for all UIAlertController.

Answer 5

For iOS 9.0 and above use this code in app delegate

[[UIView appearanceWhenContainedInInstancesOfClasses:@[[UIAlertController class]]] setTintColor:[UIColor redColor]];

Answer 6

To change the color of one button like CANCEL to the red color you can use this style property called UIAlertActionStyle.destructive :

let prompt = UIAlertController.init(title: "Reset Password", message: "Enter Your E-mail :", preferredStyle: .alert)
        let okAction = UIAlertAction.init(title: "Submit", style: .default) { (action) in
              //your code
}

let cancelAction = UIAlertAction.init(title: "Cancel", style: UIAlertActionStyle.destructive) { (action) in
                //your code
        }
        prompt.addTextField(configurationHandler: nil)
        prompt.addAction(okAction)
        prompt.addAction(cancelAction)
        present(prompt, animated: true, completion: nil);