How would I create a UIAlertView in Swift?
From the UIAlertView
class:
// UIAlertView is deprecated. Use UIAlertController with a preferredStyle of UIAlertControllerStyleAlert instead
On iOS 8, you can do this:
let alert = UIAlertController(title: "Alert", message: "Message", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert)
alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Click", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: nil))
self.presentViewController(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
Now UIAlertController
is a single class for creating and interacting with what we knew as UIAlertView
s and UIActionSheet
s on iOS 8.
Edit: To handle actions:
alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: .Default, handler: { action in
switch action.style{
case .Default:
print("default")
case .Cancel:
print("cancel")
case .Destructive:
print("destructive")
}
}}))
Edit for Swift 3:
let alert = UIAlertController(title: "Alert", message: "Message", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.alert)
alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Click", style: UIAlertActionStyle.default, handler: nil))
self.present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
Edit for Swift 4.x:
let alert = UIAlertController(title: "Alert", message: "Message", preferredStyle: .alert)
alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: .default, handler: { action in
switch action.style{
case .default:
print("default")
case .cancel:
print("cancel")
case .destructive:
print("destructive")
}
}))
self.present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
One Button
class ViewController: UIViewController {
@IBAction func showAlertButtonTapped(_ sender: UIButton) {
// create the alert
let alert = UIAlertController(title: "My Title", message: "This is my message.", preferredStyle: UIAlertController.Style.alert)
// add an action (button)
alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: UIAlertAction.Style.default, handler: nil))
// show the alert
self.present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
}
Two Buttons
class ViewController: UIViewController {
@IBAction func showAlertButtonTapped(_ sender: UIButton) {
// create the alert
let alert = UIAlertController(title: "UIAlertController", message: "Would you like to continue learning how to use iOS alerts?", preferredStyle: UIAlertController.Style.alert)
// add the actions (buttons)
alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Continue", style: UIAlertAction.Style.default, handler: nil))
alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: UIAlertAction.Style.cancel, handler: nil))
// show the alert
self.present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
}
Three Buttons
class ViewController: UIViewController {
@IBAction func showAlertButtonTapped(_ sender: UIButton) {
// create the alert
let alert = UIAlertController(title: "Notice", message: "Lauching this missile will destroy the entire universe. Is this what you intended to do?", preferredStyle: UIAlertController.Style.alert)
// add the actions (buttons)
alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Remind Me Tomorrow", style: UIAlertAction.Style.default, handler: nil))
alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: UIAlertAction.Style.cancel, handler: nil))
alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Launch the Missile", style: UIAlertAction.Style.destructive, handler: nil))
// show the alert
self.present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
}
Handling Button Taps
The handler
was nil
in the above examples. You can replace nil
with a closure to do something when the user taps a button. For example:
alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Launch the Missile", style: UIAlertAction.Style.destructive, handler: { action in
// do something like...
self.launchMissile()
}))
Notes
- Multiple buttons do not necessarily need to use different
UIAlertAction.Style
types. They could all be.default
. - For more than three buttons consider using an Action Sheet. The setup is very similar. Here is an example.