Detect button press from CLLocationManager Authorization alert - iphone

I am detecting whether the user has accepted the request to use location services in my app, I have a toggle switch in the UI that is dependent on this acceptance. The first time they toggle the switch (on) the request to use location is triggered. I want to know which button they press in that alert. (accept or decline) Right now I'm just toggling it off and making the user press it again (then detect which option they picked).
It is kind of sloppy that way, so I'd like to know if there is a way to detect this specific alert or can't that be done since it is triggered by the OS, not the application? I haven't tried it yet, but was thinking I could use the UIAlertView delegate methods for just generic button presses, but was hoping for something more specific.
UPDATE
I was able to get this working by just registering a notification when I trigger the location request (and the authorization prompt is shown). The application is placed in an inactive state (much like pulling down the notification bar). I just trigger a notification when the application becomes active and I'm able to just query the authorization status there and update my UI. I hope this helps anyone else down the line if they want to handle the authorization status on the fly.

There is no way to intercept the alert. There is, however, a method on CLLocationManagerDelegate method called didChangeAuthorizationStatus. That's probably the closest you can get to intercepting the alert.

There is no way to know explicitly which button the user selects since, as you've said, this alert comes from the OS. You can however, find out if location services has been enabled for your app, and know that way. Use a method such as this:
-(BOOL)locationServicesIsEnabled
{
if (![CLLocationManager locationServicesEnabled] || ![CLLocationManager authorizationStatus])
return NO;
return YES;
}

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And when pressing buttons at the same time, at the same moment touches begin and end, app crash after parsing requests.
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This problem with the UIResponder object is very usual. However, your problem description is not clear and your implementation seems not so good.
Here, to resolve this quick touch event problem:
Your solution is debouncing the action event of UIButton.
Debouncing also helps to prevent multiple executions when a user mistakenly pressed a button (or any UIResponder object) multiple times so quickly that even the UI was not blocked till then. Following article may guide you more regarding the same:
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Thanks in advance.
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in my app I need to create a bunch of UIAlertView popups expecting user to respond to each of them at some moment of time. By definition UIAlertView is non modal, i.e. the logic of my app continues to execute after making them. When the app would go into background would the popups be automatically saved? It looks like when user responds by clicking the button, correct popup responds even after app goes into bkgr and comes back. Does it mean that the UIAlertView popup ptrs are preserved during save/restore, ie can be reused after restore, OR, there is some mangling done to support clickedButtonByIndex:alert referring to correct popup?
Thanks. Victor
UIAlertView inherits from UIView, as does say a scroll view. These user interface elements are all "saved" when your app goes into the background, and are not mangled in some way. When your app comes back into the foreground all your UI elements work the same.
FYI, this behavior has changed in iOS 4 (in the unlikely event that you're trying to support pre iOS 4): See the "Important" note in the "Overview" section of the UIAlertView documentation.
But, yes, your app is preserved, unless iOS has to shut it down, in which case all bets are off.

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