How would I create a UIAlertView in Swift?

Question

I have been working to create a UIAlertView in Swift, but for some reason I can't get the statement right because I'm getting this error:

Could not find an overload for 'init' that accepts the supplied arguments

Here is how I have it written:

let button2Alert: UIAlertView = UIAlertView(title: "Title", message: "message",
                     delegate: self, cancelButtonTitle: "OK", otherButtonTitles: nil)

Then to call it I'm using:

button2Alert.show()

As of right now it is crashing and I just can't seem to get the syntax right.

Answer 1

Below is the reusable code for alert view and action sheet, Just write one line to show alert anywhere in application

class AlertView{

    static func show(title:String? = nil,message:String?,preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle = .alert,buttons:[String] = ["Ok"],completionHandler:@escaping (String)->Void){
        let alert = UIAlertController(title: title, message: message, preferredStyle: preferredStyle)

        for button in buttons{

            var style = UIAlertActionStyle.default
            let buttonText = button.lowercased().replacingOccurrences(of: " ", with: "")
            if buttonText == "cancel"{
                style = .cancel
            }
            let action = UIAlertAction(title: button, style: style) { (_) in
                completionHandler(button)
            }
            alert.addAction(action)
        }

        DispatchQueue.main.async {
            if let app = UIApplication.shared.delegate as? AppDelegate, let rootViewController = app.window?.rootViewController {
                rootViewController.present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
            }

        }
    }
}

Usage :

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
        AlertView.show(title: "Alert", message: "Are you sure ?", preferredStyle: .alert, buttons: ["Yes","No"]) { (button) in
            print(button)
        }
    }

}

Answer 2

You can create a UIAlert using the standard constructor, but the 'legacy' one seems to not work:

let alert = UIAlertView()
alert.title = "Alert"
alert.message = "Here's a message"
alert.addButtonWithTitle("Understood")
alert.show()

Answer 3

try This. Put Bellow Code In Button.

let alert = UIAlertController(title: "Your_Title_Text", message: "Your_MSG", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.alert)
alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Your_Text", style: UIAlertActionStyle.default, handler: nil))
self.present(alert, animated:true, completion: nil)

Answer 4

@IBAction func Alert(sender: UIButton) {

    var alertView:UIAlertView = UIAlertView()
    alertView.title = "Alert!"
    alertView.message = "Message"
    alertView.delegate = self
    alertView.addButtonWithTitle("OK")

    alertView.show()

}

Try this

Answer 5

Here is a pretty simple function of AlertView in Swift :

class func globalAlertYesNo(msg: String) {
        let alertView = UNAlertView(title: "Title", message: msg)

        alertView.messageAlignment = NSTextAlignment.Center
        alertView.buttonAlignment  = UNButtonAlignment.Horizontal

        alertView.addButton("Yes", action: {

            print("Yes action")

        })

        alertView.addButton("No", action: {

            print("No action")

        })

        alertView.show()

    }

You have to pass message as a String where you use this function.

Answer 6

If you're targeting iOS 7 and 8, you need something like this to make sure you're using the right method for each version, because UIAlertView is deprecated in iOS 8, but UIAlertController is not available in iOS 7:

func alert(title: String, message: String) {
    if let getModernAlert: AnyClass = NSClassFromString("UIAlertController") { // iOS 8
        let myAlert: UIAlertController = UIAlertController(title: title, message: message, preferredStyle: .Alert)
        myAlert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: .Default, handler: nil))
        self.presentViewController(myAlert, animated: true, completion: nil)
    } else { // iOS 7
        let alert: UIAlertView = UIAlertView()
        alert.delegate = self

        alert.title = title
        alert.message = message
        alert.addButtonWithTitle("OK")

        alert.show()
    }
}