How to change Background of alert ? and can we change its position? - iphone

Question

How to change Background of alert? and can we change its position?
I mean is it possible to display it up or down?
Is there any sample code available?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You cannot through any Apple supported API methods. The advised way of customizing look and feel of a UIAlertView is to create your own.

Answer 2

From the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines:
You can specify the text, the number
of buttons, and the button contents in
an alert, but you can’t customize the
background appearance of the alert
itself.
Unless you have a very good reason for wanting to customize the background color or other properties of the alert, don't do it. Your application will clash with the rest of the system, and may be rejected for violating the above-mentioned human interface guidelines. Again, from the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines:
Because users are accustomed to the
appearance and behavior of these
views, it’s important to use them
consistently and correctly in your
application.

Answer 3

U can change the color.But i do no about position.Create CustomAlert which inherits from Alert.In drawRect: u can specify color u want in CGContextSetRGBFillColor method.
Here is implementation.
#implementation CustomAlert
- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame {
if (self = [super initWithFrame:frame]) {
// Initialization code
}
return self;
}
// Method which will draw the actual view
- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect {
CGContextRef context=UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
UIColor *color = [UIColor purpleColor];
const CGFloat *arr= CGColorGetComponents(color.CGColor);
CGContextSetRGBStrokeColor(context,0, 0, 0, 1.0);
CGContextSetRGBFillColor(context, arr[0], arr[1], arr[2], 0.85);
CGContextSetLineWidth(context, 1.0);
addRoundedRectToPath(context, rect);
// Drawing final path
CGContextDrawPath(context, kCGPathFill);
}
- (void)dealloc {
[super dealloc];
}
#end
static void addRoundedRectToPath(CGContextRef context, CGRect rect){
CGFloat radius = 10;
CGFloat minx = CGRectGetMinX(rect), midx = CGRectGetMidX(rect), maxx = CGRectGetMaxX(rect);
CGFloat miny = CGRectGetMinY(rect), midy = CGRectGetMidY(rect), maxy = CGRectGetMaxY(rect);
CGContextMoveToPoint(context, minx, midy);
// Add an arc through 2 to 3
CGContextAddArcToPoint(context, minx, miny, midx, miny, radius);
// Add an arc through 4 to 5
CGContextAddArcToPoint(context, maxx, miny, maxx, midy, radius);
// Add an arc through 6 to 7
CGContextAddArcToPoint(context, maxx, maxy, midx, maxy, radius);
// Add an arc through 8 to 9
CGContextAddArcToPoint(context, minx, maxy, minx, midy, radius);
CGContextClosePath(context);
}