How to customize UIAlertView? Will Apple approve it?

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I am using a custom UIAlertView with UITextField to get password from the user.

I have been told that this custom view may cause my App to get reject by Apple; is that correct? If so, what is the appropriate replacement for my custom control?

@Nick Weaver: Back in the first stages of my project, I was looking for a Custom UIAlertView With Password UITextField, the forum submitter pointed that this may be against APPLE policy because the user might think this is the Wifi dialog for network password. — Ahmad Kayyali, Apr 19 '11 at 13:59
Ah I see, interesting. Anyway, why don't you present a modal view which does differ from the look and feel of those UIAlertViews used by Apple. — Nick Weaver, Apr 19 '11 at 14:03
@Nick Weaver: thanks for the suggestion,I will try those Custom views that has been tested and working on real applications now. — Ahmad Kayyali, Apr 20 '11 at 06:14

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 19 '11 at 13:44

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You can add a textfield to your UIAlertView

UIAlertView *alertView = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"title" message:@"msg" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel" otherButtonTitles:nil];
UITextField *txtField = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(12.0, 45.0, 260.0, 25.0)];
[alertView addSubview:txtField];
[alertView show];
[alertView release];

answered Apr 19 '11 at 13:44

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Thank you very much for the post, i am having ZERO problems doing that, my concerns are is that against apple policy for posting iPhone Application. – Ahmad Kayyali Apr 19 '11 at 13:56

score 4 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 06 '12 at 06:59

See my blog post of doing this and its perfectly accepted code by apple. I added this in some of my apps and they all got accepted. So use it without fear!!

Here is the code you can use :

UIAlertView *myAlertView = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Your title here!" message:@"this gets covered" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel" otherButtonTitles:@"OK", nil];
UITextField *myTextField = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(12.0, 45.0, 260.0, 25.0)];
[myTextField setBackgroundColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
[myAlertView addSubview:myTextField];
CGAffineTransform myTransform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(0.0, 130.0);
[myAlertView setTransform:myTransform];
[myAlertView show];
[myAlertView release];

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 19 '11 at 14:24

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Check below blog tutorial for the complete solution.

http://junecloud.com/journal/code/displaying-a-password-or-text-entry-prompt-on-the-iphone.html?cmd=success#comment3870

answered Apr 19 '11 at 14:24

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 13 '12 at 08:49

Quoting from the class reference

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.

The last sentence appears to me that they don't want developers modifying the views.

score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Jul 07 '12 at 00:29

I think there is a better way to solve this. Here is the code snippet

UIAlertView *passwordAlert = [[UIAlertView alloc]                                       
                              initWithTitle:@"Enter Password" message:@""
                              delegate:self 
                              cancelButtonTitle:nil                    
                              otherButtonTitles:@"Submit", nil];

passwordAlert.alertViewStyle = UIAlertViewStyleSecureTextInput;

(You can find related implementations in prodeveloper blog)

But this works fine on iOS 5.0 and above only. Please make a note of it. And Apple will certainly approve it.

score 1 · Answer 6 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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If you're concerned about rejection, you can always roll your own view that has animations similar to a UIAlertView. Check this question out here:

How can I customize an iOS alert view?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Feb 29 '12 at 11:34

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iOS 5 now supports this natively. Check out UIAlertView's alertViewStyle property.

answered Feb 29 '12 at 11:34

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thank you, I am aware of this new feature, I already switched to it. – Ahmad Kayyali Feb 29 '12 at 13:14

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered May 24 '12 at 09:25

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Ya Apple approve the customization of UIAlertview. From iOS 5.0 apple gives alertview type to take credential input.

Here I listed a custom alertview which is able to work on older ios version and orientation custom alertview

thanks,

Naveen Shan

answered May 24 '12 at 09:25

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