So my app was rejected (it has been approved every other time i have put it in for review and I hadn't touched this code path in ages) or this line:
[myAlert addTextFieldWithValue:nil label:NSLocalizedString(#"Name",#"Name")];
Apparently addTextFieldWithValue:label:
is a private API...
so how are we supposed to put a UITextField inside an AlertView?
Can someone help?
Consider using a modal view controller, instead. No risk of app rejection.
You don't. Alert views are for displaying alerts only. Apple uses them to display text fields sometimes, but that's their prerogative (since they wrote the HI guidelines and all).
Find a different approach in your UI for prompting the user for data. This is a mobile platform, not a desktop. Using popups like this for information gathering on such a platform is usually inappropriate.
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I'm working on a custom app for a client and am still relatively new to iOS development. The app involves setting reminders and I'm using UILocalNotifications. Now from my research the action on the notification will always run the app but I'm really hoping someone can correct me on that. Also from what I've read you are limited to the 'View' or 'Close' options. Ideally I'd love to have 3 buttons on the notification and not have to open the app to perform an action.
I'd like a 'dismiss' option, 'snooze' option, and an 'ok' option that dismisses the notification but runs some code in the background.
I came across a notification related question where somebody suggested opening the app with a modal view and presenting the options from there. Possible, just not as clean, I guess.
Any other ideas or is this what I have to do to achieve my desired functionality? If that's the case is there a way to close the app after I've selected one of my options from the modal view?
Thanks in advance.
That is not possible, as the notification is not created by your app but by the system, so you can't customize the appearance of the notification. (also in iOS 5, the user can choose to display the notifications as banners instead of alerts, which would hide any other button than the view and close button, if that were to be possible).
Secondly there is no way to close your app, as iOS is a user centric system, where the user takes the decision on whether to open or close app, and not the app itself.
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.
In my app I want the user to type names into a UITextField (or equivalent) and then when they press return, it will put that word(s) in a blue bubble that's usually associated with tags. The cursor then moves to the end where they can add more "tags".
This can be seen when adding contacts in the To, CC & BCC fields in the Mail app, and also when selecting contacts in the Messages app.
How is this done? Is it something that's provided in the UIKit or available somewhere else?
Many thanks,
Michael
Venmo just open sourced their token field.
https://github.com/venmo/VENTokenField.git
edited:
The equivalent control in desktop Cocoa is an NSTokenField, but there doesn't seem to be an equivalent for Cocoa Touch.
Since iOS 13 there exists UISearchTextField.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uisearchtextfield
You can see that component in action in the Photos App.
That should fit for many use cases. By removing the leftView you can also get rid of the search icon.
But be aware: You can‘t mix text and tokens at various positions.
From the docs:
Tokens always occur contiguously before any text in the search field.
Adding this here for reference:
Feel free to check out TaggerKit (a library I made), it's more or less what OP was talking about. You can basically add tags functionality to your app by just adding a view and a couple of properties.
I dont think you can do it with any built in functionality in the SDK, never seen such a feature. What you could do however is implement it yourself, have some custom blue button with some text over it, and when the user hits return you can have some code that takes the text and returns you the button that you need, shouldnt be too bad to implement
In my app I have two tabs. The first tab just controller with some functions.
The second tab has MapView with showUserLocation property YES.
As I know in general UIAlert message "app would like to use your current location" is displayed when app is launching, but in my raw app this message has time when I do the firs tap on my second tab.
Would you clarify me how can I manage this issue?
P.S.Sorry, but I didn't find any info about.
Thanks
It's actually better to only request location access when it's necessary. In many apps, some users might not even use the location-based features. Having it only pop up when they hit the second tab is perfectly fine.
In my app I want the user to type names into a UITextField (or equivalent) and then when they press return, it will put that word(s) in a blue bubble that's usually associated with tags. The cursor then moves to the end where they can add more "tags".
This can be seen when adding contacts in the To, CC & BCC fields in the Mail app, and also when selecting contacts in the Messages app.
How is this done? Is it something that's provided in the UIKit or available somewhere else?
Many thanks,
Michael
Venmo just open sourced their token field.
https://github.com/venmo/VENTokenField.git
edited:
The equivalent control in desktop Cocoa is an NSTokenField, but there doesn't seem to be an equivalent for Cocoa Touch.
Since iOS 13 there exists UISearchTextField.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uisearchtextfield
You can see that component in action in the Photos App.
That should fit for many use cases. By removing the leftView you can also get rid of the search icon.
But be aware: You can‘t mix text and tokens at various positions.
From the docs:
Tokens always occur contiguously before any text in the search field.
Adding this here for reference:
Feel free to check out TaggerKit (a library I made), it's more or less what OP was talking about. You can basically add tags functionality to your app by just adding a view and a couple of properties.
I dont think you can do it with any built in functionality in the SDK, never seen such a feature. What you could do however is implement it yourself, have some custom blue button with some text over it, and when the user hits return you can have some code that takes the text and returns you the button that you need, shouldnt be too bad to implement