I need to know what this UI component is called ? It looks like an Alert but has textfeilds and buttons in it ?
1.) What is this UIComponent called ?
2.) Is there any video tutorial which shows how to implement this ? (If so link) or any tutorials that discuss the implementation of this
It's UIAlertView
Here is the tutorial to make custom UIAlertView
That is an Android component, there is no equivalent in iOS.
There is the UIAlertView, but you cannot edit text within it.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/UIKit/Reference/UIAlertView_Class/UIAlertView/UIAlertView.html#//apple_ref/occ/cl/UIAlertView
If you want to be able to let users edit text in the component, you have to create it from scratch, e.g. create a UIView and add a UITextView to it and some UIButtons and create the functionality to display/dismiss the component yourself.
AlertView
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"Title"
message:#"Message"
delegate:nil
cancelButtonTitle:#"Cancel"
otherButtonTitles:nil];
[alert show];
[alert release];
The component on iPhone is called a UIAlertView. You can add subviews in it to get text-fields, although this is not recommended by Apple - but you won't get rejected either. In iOS5, there are dedicated UIAlertView types for this. If you are building for iOS5, this is the method you should use.
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I've got a UIAlertView with 3 buttons displayed vertically by default in the UIAlertView. I'd like the top button to be bold/highlighted. From my understanding and testing, the 'cancel' button is the one that is highlighted. The problem is no matter how I set the cancel button, it is placed last in this row. I cannot get it to be the first button.
I've tried setting the cancel button explicitly
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:title
message:message
delegate:self
cancelButtonTitle:#"Top Button"
otherButtonTitles:#"Middle Button", #"Bottom Button", nil];
as well as setting the index of the cancel button
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:title
message:message
delegate:self
cancelButtonTitle:nil
otherButtonTitles:#"Top Button", #"Middle Button", #"Bottom Button", nil];
alert.cancelButtonIndex = 0;
This problem is actually caused by changes Apple made in iOS 7. Prior to iOS 7 we were able to access the subviews of an UIAlertView by calling [alertView subviews]. But since iOS 7 doesn't give us access to any subviews ([alertView subviews].count will always return zero) we can't customize UIAlertViews the way we used to.
So the only way to achive your goal under iOS 7 is to build a custom view that looks like UIAlertView and then customize it as you like.
But if you're coding for an iOS version prior to iOS 7 than you could use this easy hack to access a button:
UIAlertView *alertView = [[UIAlertView alloc] init];
[alertView addButtonWithTitle:#"Yes"];
UIButton *yesButton = [alertView.subviews lastObject]; //is nil under iOS 7
This way you would get access to the first button. After that you can customize your UIAlertView as usual.
By the way: Apple did not only want to give all UIAlertViews the same design by changing the way we can customize them. The reason lies in HCI researches (Human-Computer-Interaction). People tend to think the bottom button is always the 'default' answer if that is the way it is implemented throughout all apps.
Also the bottom button is the only highlighted button in a UIAlertView. So its visual weight is stronger than the visual weight of the button with about the same amount of text. That's another factor why people tend to choose this one. And that is also the reason why the highlighted button never should cause disastrous and irreversible actions ('You wanna delete all your saved games' should always highlight the button 'Keep my saved games' and not the one telling 'Delete everything').
Therefore Apple always makes the Cancel Button the bottom one no matter in which order you added the buttons. So if your app doesn't make use of a fully custom interface and uses many User Interface Elements provided by Apple than I highly recommend you to not try to change that behavior and make the bottom button your 'default' button.
There is a customer alert view DTAlertView.
I hope it can help you.
I was wondering how to create and customize a UIAlert View Popup, like ones in popular games such as Angry Birds or Cut the Rope.
I just want to say can you please rate my game and have 3 options to choose from. I want to design it so the text font and color changes and the background color can change to a picture or something? Thanks in Advance! :)
If your UIAlert is short enough to fit without the inherent scroll bar of longer text, then this will work:
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"Title Here" message:#Message here..." delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:#"Okay" otherButtonTitles:nil];
((UILabel*)[[alert subviews] objectAtIndex:1]).textAlignment = UITextAlignmentLeft;
((UILabel*)[[alert subviews] objectAtIndex:1]).font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:12];
[alert show];
You should try subclassing UIAlertView using this tutorial. Such UIAlertViews can be achieved with either a subclass of UIAlertView or by creating a separate view all together that simulates the look and feel of a UIAlertView.
I display a UIAlertView above my cocos2d layer.
I release it after I how it.
Is it really gone? Do I have to somehow remove it from my UIView?
If you just do
UIAlertView* alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle...];
[alert show];
[alert release];
then there's no need to worry about it. However, if you set the alert's delegate to some object, make sure that object still exists when the user taps a button in the alert - otherwise your app will crash when the alert will try to call alertView:didDismissWithButtonIndex: delegate method.
Does anyone have any best practices, tips & tricks, or recommendations for how to create modal Alert Views with Cocoa Touch?
I like to think there is a way to make this difficult task trivial or at least easier.
You can use something like this:
void AlertWithMessage(NSString *message)
{
/* open an alert with an OK button */
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"Name of the Application"
message:message
delegate:nil
cancelButtonTitle:#"OK"
otherButtonTitles: nil];
[alert show];
[alert release];
}
I just use UIAlertView to display modal alerts. What additional functionality are you looking for?
Check out the UICatalog sample code from Apple. It shows the usage of both Alerts and Sheets on the phone.
I'm looking for the class name of the popup/message windows on the iPhone (it's a blueish window that comes up when you have a missed call, or a message comes in for example.)
The class is called UIAlertView. From the documentation:
Use the UIAlertView class to display an alert message to the user. An alert view functions similar to but differs in appearance from an action sheet (an instance of UIActionSheet).
Use the properties and methods defined in this class to set the title, message, and delegate of an alert view and configure the buttons. You must set a delegate if you add custom buttons. The delegate should conform to the UIAlertViewDelegate protocol. Use the show method to display an alert view once it is configured.
The examples you gave (missed call or incoming text message) are system level alerts that pop up over any application. That functionality is not available through the SDK. lajos's answer does provide the correct way to display an alert, but it is worth remembering you can only do this within your application. You cannot pop up an alert over another app because the SDK currently prohibits an app from running in the background.
Further to this response, UIAlertView is indeed the way to do this and the code you want is:
UIAlertView *alert = [[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"Message" message:nil delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:#"OK" otherButtonTitles: nil] autorelease];
[alert show];
Here the alert box will popup with the message "Message" and have a single button titled "OK" which will close the popup when clicked. Check the documentation for other things you can do (more buttons etc).