UIAlertView addSubview in iOS7

Question

Adding some controls to UIAlertView was deprecated in iOS7 using addSubview method. As I know Apple promised to add contentView property.

iOS 7 is released now and I see that this property is not added. That is why I search for some custom solution with ability to add progress bar to this alertView. Something for example similar to TSAlertView, but more ready for using in iOS 7.

Answer 1

I wrote a full implementation of UIAlertView that mimics the complete UIAlertView API, but adds the contentView property we've all wanted for so long: SDCAlertView.

Answer 2

Here is a project on Github to add any UIView to an UIAlertView-looking dialog on iOS7.

(Copied from this StackOverflow thread.)

Answer 3

There wont be UIAlertView with custom views in iOS7, nor contentView which Apple changed its mind about, so addSubview is impossible now in UIAlertView.

A good alternative will be SVProgressHUD, according to many threads in Apple's forum.

Edit:

There is officially no addSubview nor subclassing for UIAlertView in iOS7.

The UIAlertView class is intended to be used as-is and does not support subclassing. The view hierarchy for this class is private and must not be modified.

Other good alternatives:

ios-custom-alertview by wimagguc

MZFormSheetController.

Answer 4

For IOS7

UIAlertView *alertView1 = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Enter Form Name" 
                                               message:@""
                                               delegate:self 
                                               cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel"
                                               otherButtonTitles:@"Ok", nil];
alertView1.alertViewStyle = UIAlertViewStyleSecureTextInput;
UITextField *myTextField = [alertView1 textFieldAtIndex:0];
[alertView1 setTag:555];
myTextField.keyboardType=UIKeyboardTypeAlphabet;

[alertView1 show];

Answer 5

For those who love simple and effective methods with out having to write lines of code. Here is a cool solution without using any other private frame works for adding subviews to ios 7 alert views,i.e.

[alertView setValue:imageView forKey:@"accessoryView"];

Sample code for better understanding,

UIImageView *imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(180, 10, 85, 50)];
UIImage *wonImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"image.png"];
[imageView setImage:wonImage];

//check if os version is 7 or above
if (floor(NSFoundationVersionNumber) > NSFoundationVersionNumber_iOS_6_1) {
      [alertView setValue:imageView forKey:@"accessoryView"];
}else{
      [alertView addSubview:imageView];
}

Hope it helps some one,thanks :)

Answer 6

You can find simple solution without extra classes here

It is based on setting accessoryView for ordinary UIAlertView.