use UIAppearance methods for customizing UIAlertView
I know that UIAlertView conforms to UIAppearance and UIAppearanceContainer . But how do I use UIAppearance to customize/style UIAlertView ? I am not able to find it over the net. You can't use UIAppearance to customise UIAlertView . UIAlertView only shows as having UIAppearance because UIView conforms to UIAppearance and UIAlertView is a subclass of UIView . It doesn't actually implement it though. If you want to use UIAlertView functionality, modally view, etc... you can subclass it. Here an example: http://www.albertopasca.it/whiletrue/2012/07/objective-c-modal-view-navigation-tabbar