How to add an action to a UIAlertView button using Swift iOS

Question

I want to add another button other than the "OK" button which should just dismiss the alert. I want the other button to call a certain function.

var logInErrorAlert: UIAlertView = UIAlertView()
logInErrorAlert.title = "Ooops"
logInErrorAlert.message = "Unable to log in."
logInErrorAlert.addButtonWithTitle("Ok")

How do I add another button to this alert, and then allow it to call a function once clicks so lets say we want the new button to call:

 retry()

Answer 1

The Swifty way is to use the new UIAlertController and closures:

    // Create the alert controller
    let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Title", message: "Message", preferredStyle: .Alert)

    // Create the actions
    let okAction = UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default) {
        UIAlertAction in
        NSLog("OK Pressed")
    }
    let cancelAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Cancel) {
        UIAlertAction in
        NSLog("Cancel Pressed")
    }

    // Add the actions
    alertController.addAction(okAction)
    alertController.addAction(cancelAction)

    // Present the controller
    self.presentViewController(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)

Swift 3:

    // Create the alert controller
    let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Title", message: "Message", preferredStyle: .alert)

    // Create the actions
    let okAction = UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: UIAlertActionStyle.default) {
        UIAlertAction in
        NSLog("OK Pressed")
    }
    let cancelAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: UIAlertActionStyle.cancel) {
        UIAlertAction in
        NSLog("Cancel Pressed")
    }

    // Add the actions
    alertController.addAction(okAction)
    alertController.addAction(cancelAction)

    // Present the controller
    self.present(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)

Answer 2

func showAlertAction(title: String, message: String){
    let alert = UIAlertController(title: title, message: message, preferredStyle: UIAlertController.Style.alert)
    alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Ok", style: UIAlertAction.Style.default, handler: {(action:UIAlertAction!) in
        print("Action")
    }))
    alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: UIAlertAction.Style.default, handler: nil))
    self.present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
}

Answer 3

UIAlertViews use a delegate to communicate with you, the client.

You add a second button, and you create an object to receive the delegate messages from the view:

class LogInErrorDelegate : UIAlertViewDelegate {

    init {}

    // not sure of the prototype of this, you should look it up
    func alertView(view :UIAlertView, clickedButtonAtIndex :Integer) -> Void {
        switch clickedButtonAtIndex {
            case 0: 
               userClickedOK() // er something
            case 1:
               userClickedRetry()
              /* Don't use "retry" as a function name, it's a reserved word */

            default:
               userClickedRetry()
        }
    }

    /* implement rest of the delegate */
}
logInErrorAlert.addButtonWithTitle("Retry")

var myErrorDelegate = LogInErrorDelegate()
logInErrorAlert.delegate = myErrorDelegate

Answer 4

based on swift:

let alertCtr = UIAlertController(title:"Title", message:"Message", preferredStyle: .Alert)
let Cancel = AlertAction(title:"remove", style: .Default, handler: {(UIAlertAction) -> Void in })
let Remove = UIAlertAction(title:"remove", style: .Destructive, handler:{(UIAlertAction)-> Void 
    inself.colorLabel.hidden = true    
})
alertCtr.addAction(Cancel)
alertCtr.addAction(Remove)

self.presentViewController(alertCtr, animated:true, completion:nil)}

Answer 5

See my code:

 @IBAction func foundclicked(sender: AnyObject) {

            if (amountTF.text.isEmpty)
            {
                let alert = UIAlertView(title: "Oops! Empty Field", message: "Please enter the amount", delegate: nil, cancelButtonTitle: "OK")

                alert.show()
            }

            else {

            var alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Confirm Bid Amount", message: "Final Bid Amount : "+amountTF.text , preferredStyle: .Alert)
            var okAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Confirm", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default) {
                UIAlertAction in

                JHProgressHUD.sharedHUD.loaderColor = UIColor.redColor()
                        JHProgressHUD.sharedHUD.showInView(self.view, withHeader: "Amount registering" , andFooter: "Loading")
                }
            var cancelAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Cancel) {
                UIAlertAction in

                alertController .removeFromParentViewController()
            }
                            alertController.addAction(okAction)
                            alertController.addAction(cancelAction)

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

            }

        }

Answer 6

Swift 3.0 Version of Jake's Answer

// Create the alert controller

let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Alert!", message: "There is no items for the current user", preferredStyle: .alert)

            // Create the actions
            let okAction = UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: UIAlertActionStyle.default) {
                UIAlertAction in
                NSLog("OK Pressed")
            }
            let cancelAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: UIAlertActionStyle.cancel) {
                UIAlertAction in
                NSLog("Cancel Pressed")
            }

            // Add the actions
            alertController.addAction(okAction)
            alertController.addAction(cancelAction)

            // Present the controller
            self.present(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)

Answer 7

Swift 4 Update

        // Create the alert controller
        let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Title", message: "Message", preferredStyle: .alert)

        // Create the actions
        let okAction = UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: UIAlertActionStyle.default) {
            UIAlertAction in
            NSLog("OK Pressed")
        }
        let cancelAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: UIAlertActionStyle.cancel) {
            UIAlertAction in
            NSLog("Cancel Pressed")
        }

        // Add the actions
        alertController.addAction(okAction)
        alertController.addAction(cancelAction)

        // Present the controller
        self.present(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)