How to add TextField to UIAlertController in Swift

Question

I am trying to show a UIAlertController with a UITextView. When I add the line:

    //Add text field
    alertController.addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler { (textField) -> Void in
    }        

I get a Runtime error:

fatal error: unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value

    let alertController: UIAlertController = UIAlertController(title: "Find image", message: "Search for image", preferredStyle: .Alert)

    //cancel button
    let cancelAction: UIAlertAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .Cancel) { action -> Void in
        //cancel code
    }
    alertController.addAction(cancelAction)

    //Create an optional action
    let nextAction: UIAlertAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Search", style: .Default) { action -> Void in
        let text = (alertController.textFields?.first as! UITextField).text
        println("You entered \(text)")
    }
    alertController.addAction(nextAction)

    //Add text field
    alertController.addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler { (textField) -> Void in
        textField.textColor = UIColor.greenColor()
    }
    //Present the AlertController
    presentViewController(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)

This is presented inside my ViewController via an IBAction.

I have downloaded the code from here and it works fine. I copied and pasted that method into my code and it breaks. The presence of self on the last line has no impact.

Answer 1

Swift 4

alert.addTextField(configurationHandler: { (textField) in
    textField.placeholder = "Enter First Name"
})

---

Use this code, I am running this code in my app successfully.

@IBAction func addButtonClicked(sender : AnyObject){
    let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Add New Name", message: "", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert)
    alertController.addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler { (textField : UITextField!) -> Void in
        textField.placeholder = "Enter Second Name"
    }
    let saveAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Save", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: { alert -> Void in
        let firstTextField = alertController.textFields![0] as UITextField
        let secondTextField = alertController.textFields![1] as UITextField
    })
    let cancelAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: {
        (action : UIAlertAction!) -> Void in })
    alertController.addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler { (textField : UITextField!) -> Void in
        textField.placeholder = "Enter First Name"
    }

    alertController.addAction(saveAction)
    alertController.addAction(cancelAction)

    self.presentViewController(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)
}

Edited: Swift 3.0 version

@IBAction func addButtonClicked(_ sender: UIButton){
    let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Add New Name", message: "", preferredStyle: .alert)
    alertController.addTextField { (textField : UITextField!) -> Void in
        textField.placeholder = "Enter Second Name"
    }
    let saveAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Save", style: .default, handler: { alert -> Void in
        let firstTextField = alertController.textFields![0] as UITextField
        let secondTextField = alertController.textFields![1] as UITextField
        print("firstName \(firstTextField.text), secondName \(secondTextField.text)")
    })
    let cancelAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .default, handler: { (action : UIAlertAction!) -> Void in })
    alertController.addTextField { (textField : UITextField!) -> Void in
        textField.placeholder = "Enter First Name"
    }

    alertController.addAction(saveAction)
    alertController.addAction(cancelAction)

    self.present(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)
}

Answer 2

To add a text field in Swift 3.0:

let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Title", message: "", preferredStyle: .alert)
alertController.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Save", style: .default, handler: { alert -> Void in
    let textField = alertController.textFields![0] as UITextField
    // do something with textField
}))
alertController.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .cancel, handler: nil))
alertController.addTextField(configurationHandler: {(textField : UITextField!) -> Void in
    textField.placeholder = "Search"
})   
self.present(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)

Answer 3

So I started checking to see what could possibly have been different in my code to the working code. I noticed that my ViewController extends

UITextFieldDelegate

Which apparently means that I need to set the delegate of any child UITextView:

alertController.addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler { (textField) -> Void in
        searchTextField = textField
        searchTextField?.delegate = self //REQUIRED
        searchTextField?.placeholder = "Enter your search terms"
}

Answer 4

How to add textField to AlertView? Let's keep it short and simple.

This works for Swift 3.0 and above.

var nameField: UITextField?
let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Add Number", message: nil, preferredStyle: .alert)
// Add textfield to alert view
alertController.addTextField { (textField) in
    nameField = textField
}

First, you instantiate an object of UIAlertController and then you add a text field to it by accessing addTextField member of UIAlertController class.

Answer 5

Solution:

Swift 4.2

Try the following lines and see if it works:

let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Add New Name", message: "", preferredStyle: .alert)

alertController.addTextField { (textField : UITextField!) -> Void in
    textField.placeholder = "Enter Second Name"
}
let saveAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Save", style: .default, handler: { alert -> Void in
let firstTextField = alertController.textFields![0] as UITextField
let secondTextField = alertController.textFields![1] as UITextField
    })
let cancelAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .default, handler: {
(action : UIAlertAction!) -> Void in })
alertController.addTextField { (textField : UITextField!) -> Void in
    textField.placeholder = "Enter First Name"
}

alertController.addAction(saveAction)
alertController.addAction(cancelAction)

self.present(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)

Hope it helps.

Answer 6

In Swift 4.2 and Xcode 10.1

Alert with two Textfields and Read TextField text data and present alert on top of all views.

func alertWithTF(title: String, message: String) {
    //Step : 1
    let alert = UIAlertController(title: title, message: message, preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.alert)

    //Step : 2
    alert.addAction (UIAlertAction(title: "Save", style: .default) { (alertAction) in
        let textField = alert.textFields![0]
        let textField2 = alert.textFields![1]
        if textField.text != "" {
            //Read textfield data
            print(textField.text!)
            print("TF 1 : \(textField.text!)")
        } else {
            print("TF 1 is Empty...")
        }
        if textField2.text != "" {
            //Read textfield data
            print(textField2.text!)
            print("TF 2 : \(textField2.text!)")
        } else {
            print("TF 2 is Empty...")
        }
    })

    //Step : 3
    //For first TF
    alert.addTextField { (textField) in
        textField.placeholder = "Enter your first name"
        textField.textColor = .red
    }
    //For second TF
    alert.addTextField { (textField) in
        textField.placeholder = "Enter your last name"
        textField.textColor = .blue
    }

    //Cancel action
    alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .default) { (alertAction) in })
   self.present(alert, animated:true, completion: nil)

}

If you want to present aleert on top of all views.

Here from above code remove this last line self.present(alert, animated:true, completion: nil) and add below code.

//Present alert on top of all views.
let alertWindow = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
alertWindow.rootViewController = UIViewController()
alertWindow.windowLevel = UIWindowLevelAlert + 1

alertWindow.makeKeyAndVisible()

alertWindow.rootViewController?.present(alert, animated:true, completion: nil)

Now call like this

alertWithTF(title: "This is title", message: "This is message")

Answer 7

For Swift 4.0, You can use this sample of code succesfully tested in my project:

@IBAction func withdrawTapped(_ sender: UIButton) {

  let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Token withdraw", message: "", preferredStyle: .alert)

  let withdrawAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Withdraw", style: .default) { (aciton) in

    let text = alertController.textFields!.first!.text!

    if !text.isEmpty {
      self.presentAlert(
        title: "Succesful", 
        message: "You made request for withdraw \(textField.text) tokens")
    }
  }

  let cancelAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .cancel) { (action) in
  }

  alertController.addTextField { (textField) in
    textField.placeholder = "999"
    textField.keyboardType = .decimalPad
  }

  alertController.addAction(withdrawAction)
  alertController.addAction(cancelAction)

  self.present(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)
}

Answer 8

To add alertController with one textField (Swift 5)

func openAlert(){
    let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Title", message: "", preferredStyle: .alert)
    alertController.addTextField { (textField : UITextField!) -> Void in
        textField.placeholder = "Enter name"
    }

    let saveAction = UIAlertAction(title: kAlertConfirm, style: .default, handler: { alert -> Void in
        if let textField = alertController.textFields?[0] {
            if textField.text!.count > 0 {
                print("Text :: \(textField.text ?? "")")
            }
        }
    })

    let cancelAction = UIAlertAction(title: kAlertCancel, style: .default, handler: {
        (action : UIAlertAction!) -> Void in })

    alertController.addAction(cancelAction)
    alertController.addAction(saveAction)

    alertController.preferredAction = saveAction

    self.present(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)
}

Answer 9

Great answer a slight modification to show how the textfield can be used:

func addRow (row: Int, bodin: String, flag: Int) {
    let alertController = UIAlertController(title: bodin, message: "", preferredStyle: .alert)
    alertController.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Save", style: .default, handler: {
        alert -> Void in
        _ = alertController.textFields![0] as UITextField

    }))
    alertController.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .cancel, handler: nil))

    alertController.addTextField(configurationHandler: {(textField : UITextField!) -> Void in
        switch flag {
        case 0:
            textField.keyboardType = UIKeyboardType.phonePad
            textField.placeholder = "Enter Number"
        case 1:
            textField.keyboardType = UIKeyboardType.emailAddress
            textField.placeholder = "Enter Email"
        default:
            break
        }

    })

Answer 10

add TextField to UIAlertController and TextField text Display on UILabel in Swift

let alert = UIAlertController(title: "Alert", message: "", preferredStyle: .alert)

alert.addTextField { (textField) in
textField.placeholder = "First Name"
}
alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: .default, handler: { [weak alert] (_) in
let textField = alert?.textFields![0]
self.label.text = textField?.text  }))

self.present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)