The answer is
In Xamarin and C#:
var alert = new UIAlertView ("Your title", "Your description", null, "Cancel", new [] {"OK"});
alert.AlertViewStyle = UIAlertViewStyle.PlainTextInput;
alert.Clicked += (s, b) => {
var title = alert.ButtonTitle(b.ButtonIndex);
if (title == "OK") {
var text = alert.GetTextField(0).Text;
...
}
};
alert.Show();
I would use a UIAlertView with a UITextField subview. You can either add the text field manually or, in iOS 5, use one of the new methods.
Try this Swift code in a UIViewController -
func doAlertControllerDemo() {
var inputTextField: UITextField?;
let passwordPrompt = UIAlertController(title: "Enter Password", message: "You have selected to enter your passwod.", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert);
passwordPrompt.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: { (action) -> Void in
// Now do whatever you want with inputTextField (remember to unwrap the optional)
let entryStr : String = (inputTextField?.text)! ;
print("BOOM! I received '\(entryStr)'");
self.doAlertViewDemo(); //do again!
}));
passwordPrompt.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: { (action) -> Void in
print("done");
}));
passwordPrompt.addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler({(textField: UITextField!) in
textField.placeholder = "Password"
textField.secureTextEntry = false /* true here for pswd entry */
inputTextField = textField
});
self.presentViewController(passwordPrompt, animated: true, completion: nil);
return;
}
Tested out Warkst's third code snippet--worked great, except I changed it to be default input type instead of numeric:
UIAlertView * alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Hello!" message:@"Please enter your name:" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Continue" otherButtonTitles:nil];
alert.alertViewStyle = UIAlertViewStylePlainTextInput;
UITextField * alertTextField = [alert textFieldAtIndex:0];
alertTextField.keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeDefault;
alertTextField.placeholder = @"Enter your name";
[alert show];
Add views to a UIAlertView like this. In iOS 5 there are some "magic" things that do it for you (but that's all under NDA).
Building on John Riselvato's answer, to retrieve the string back from the UIAlertView...
alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Submit", style: UIAlertAction.Style.default) { (action : UIAlertAction) in
guard let message = alert.textFields?.first?.text else {
return
}
// Text Field Response Handling Here
})
Since IOS 9.0 use UIAlertController:
UIAlertController* alert = [UIAlertController alertControllerWithTitle:@"My Alert"
message:@"This is an alert."
preferredStyle:UIAlertControllerStyleAlert];
UIAlertAction* defaultAction = [UIAlertAction actionWithTitle:@"OK" style:UIAlertActionStyleDefault
handler:^(UIAlertAction * action) {
//use alert.textFields[0].text
}];
UIAlertAction* cancelAction = [UIAlertAction actionWithTitle:@"Cancel" style:UIAlertActionStyleDefault
handler:^(UIAlertAction * action) {
//cancel action
}];
[alert addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler:^(UITextField * _Nonnull textField) {
// A block for configuring the text field prior to displaying the alert
}];
[alert addAction:defaultAction];
[alert addAction:cancelAction];
[self presentViewController:alert animated:YES completion:nil];
Just wanted to add an important piece of information that I believe was left out perhaps with the assumption that the ones seeking answers might already know. This problem happens a lot and I too found myself stuck when I tried to implement the viewAlert method for the buttons of the UIAlertView message. To do this you need to 1st add the delegate class which may look something like this:
@interface YourViewController : UIViewController <UIAlertViewDelegate>
Also you can find a very helpful tutorial here!
Hope this helps.
To make sure you get the call backs after the user enters text, set the delegate inside the configuration handler. textField.delegate = self
Swift 3 & 4 (iOS 10 - 11):
let alert = UIAlertController(title: "Alert", message: "Message", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.alert)
alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Click", style: UIAlertActionStyle.default, handler: nil))
alert.addTextField(configurationHandler: {(textField: UITextField!) in
textField.placeholder = "Enter text:"
textField.isSecureTextEntry = true // for password input
})
self.present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
In Swift (iOS 8-10):
override func viewDidAppear(animated: Bool) {
var alert = UIAlertController(title: "Alert", message: "Message", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert)
alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Click", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: nil))
alert.addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler({(textField: UITextField!) in
textField.placeholder = "Enter text:"
textField.secureTextEntry = true
})
self.presentViewController(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
In Objective-C (iOS 8):
- (void) viewDidLoad
{
UIAlertController *alert = [UIAlertController alertControllerWithTitle:@"Alert" message:@"Message" preferredStyle:UIAlertControllerStyleAlert];
[alert addAction:[UIAlertAction actionWithTitle:@"Click" style:UIAlertActionStyleDefault handler:nil]];
[alert addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler:^(UITextField *textField) {
textField.placeholder = @"Enter text:";
textField.secureTextEntry = YES;
}];
[self presentViewController:alert animated:YES completion:nil];
}
FOR iOS 5-7:
UIAlertView * alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Alert" message:@"INPUT BELOW" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Hide" otherButtonTitles:nil];
alert.alertViewStyle = UIAlertViewStylePlainTextInput;
[alert show];
NOTE: Below doesn't work with iOS 7 (iOS 4 - 6 Works)
Just to add another version.
- (void)viewDidLoad{
UIAlertView* alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Preset Saving..." message:@"Describe the Preset\n\n\n" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel" otherButtonTitles:@"Ok", nil];
UITextField *textField = [[UITextField alloc] init];
[textField setBackgroundColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
textField.delegate = self;
textField.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleLine;
textField.frame = CGRectMake(15, 75, 255, 30);
textField.placeholder = @"Preset Name";
textField.keyboardAppearance = UIKeyboardAppearanceAlert;
[textField becomeFirstResponder];
[alert addSubview:textField];
}
then I call [alert show]; when I want it.
The method that goes along
- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex {
NSString* detailString = textField.text;
NSLog(@"String is: %@", detailString); //Put it on the debugger
if ([textField.text length] <= 0 || buttonIndex == 0){
return; //If cancel or 0 length string the string doesn't matter
}
if (buttonIndex == 1) {
...
}
}
Swift 3:
let alert = UIAlertController(title: "Alert", message: "Message", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.alert)
alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Click", style: UIAlertActionStyle.default, handler: nil))
alert.addTextField(configurationHandler: {(textField: UITextField!) in
textField.placeholder = "Enter text:"
})
self.present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
UIAlertview *alt = [[UIAlertView alloc]initWithTitle:@"\n\n\n" message:nil delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:nil otherButtonTitles:@"OK", nil];
UILabel *lbl1 = [[UILabel alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(25,17, 100, 30)];
lbl1.text=@"User Name";
UILabel *lbl2 = [[UILabel alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(25, 60, 80, 30)];
lbl2.text = @"Password";
UITextField *username=[[UITextField alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(130, 17, 130, 30)];
UITextField *password=[[UITextField alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(130, 60, 130, 30)];
lbl1.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
lbl2.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
[lbl1 setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
[lbl2 setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
username.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect;
password.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect;
[alt addSubview:lbl1];
[alt addSubview:lbl2];
[alt addSubview:username];
[alt addSubview:password];
[alt show];
Source: Stackoverflow.com