[ios] change text of button and disable button in iOS

How do you change the text of the button and disable a button in iOS?

SWIFT 4 with extension

set:

// set button label for all states
extension UIButton {
    public func setAllStatesTitle(_ newTitle: String){
        self.setTitle(newTitle, for: .normal)
        self.setTitle(newTitle, for: .selected)
        self.setTitle(newTitle, for: .disabled)
    }
}

and use:

yourBtn.setAllStatesTitle("btn title")

Assuming that the button is a UIButton:

UIButton *button = …;
[button setEnabled:NO]; // disables
[button setTitle:@"Foo" forState:UIControlStateNormal]; // sets text

See the documentation for UIButton.

If somebody, who is looking for a solution in Swift, landed here, it would be:

myButton.isEnabled = false // disables
myButton.setTitle("myTitle", for: .normal) // sets text

Documentation: isEnabled, setTitle.

Older code:

myButton.enabled = false // disables
myButton.setTitle("myTitle", forState: UIControlState.Normal) // sets text

If you want to change the title as a response to being tapped you can try this inside the IBAction method of the button in your view controller delegate. This toggles a voice chat on and off. Setting up the voice chat is not covered here!

- (IBAction)startChat:(id)sender {
UIButton *chatButton = (UIButton*)sender;
if (!voiceChat.active) {
    UIAlertController* alert = [UIAlertController alertControllerWithTitle:@"Voice Chat"
                                                                   message:@"Voice Chat will become live. Please be careful with feedback if your friend is nearby."
                                                            preferredStyle:UIAlertControllerStyleAlert];
    UIAlertAction* defaultAction = [UIAlertAction actionWithTitle:@"OK" style:UIAlertActionStyleDefault
                                                          handler:^(UIAlertAction * action) {}];
    [alert addAction:defaultAction];
    [self presentViewController:alert animated:YES completion:nil];
    [voiceChat start];
    voiceChat.active = YES;
    [chatButton setTitle:@"Stop Chat" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
}
else {
    [voiceChat stop];
    UIAlertController* alert = [UIAlertController alertControllerWithTitle:@"Voice Chat"
                                                                   message:@"Voice Chat is closed"
                                                            preferredStyle:UIAlertControllerStyleAlert];
    UIAlertAction* defaultAction = [UIAlertAction actionWithTitle:@"OK" style:UIAlertActionStyleDefault
                                                          handler:^(UIAlertAction * action) {}];

    [alert addAction:defaultAction];
    [self presentViewController:alert animated:YES completion:nil];
    voiceChat.active = NO;
    [chatButton setTitle:@"Chat" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
}

}

voiceChat is specific to voice chat of course, but you can use your ow local boolean property to control the switch.

[myButton setTitle: @"myTitle" forState: UIControlStateNormal];

Use UIControlStateNormal to set your title.

There are couple of states that UIbuttons provide, you can have a look:

[myButton setTitle: @"myTitle" forState: UIControlStateApplication];
[myButton setTitle: @"myTitle" forState: UIControlStateHighlighted];
[myButton setTitle: @"myTitle" forState: UIControlStateReserved];
[myButton setTitle: @"myTitle" forState: UIControlStateSelected];
[myButton setTitle: @"myTitle" forState: UIControlStateDisabled];

In Swift 3, you can simply change the title of a button by:

button.setTitle("Title", for: .normal)

and you disable the button by:

button.isEnabled = false

.normal is the same as UIControlState.normal because the type is inferred.

To Change Button title:

[mybtn setTitle:@"My Button" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[mybtn setTitleColor:[UIColor blueColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

For Disable:

[mybtn setEnabled:NO];