UIAlertView/UIAlertController iOS 7 and iOS 8 compatibility

Question

I am using Swift to write an app and I need to show an alert. The app must be iOS 7 and iOS 8 compatible. Since UIAlertView has been replaced with UIAlert

Answer 1

If your using both iOS 7- UIAlertView and iOS 8+ UIAlertController as described above, and you want your UIAlertController blocks to call your UIAlertView's delegate (e.g. MyController) alertView:didDismissWithButtonIndex method to continue processing the results, here is an example of how to do that:

if ([UIAlertController class]) {
    MyController * __weak mySelf = self;

    UIAlertController *alertController = [UIAlertController
        alertControllerWithTitle:alertTitle
        message:alertMessage
        preferredStyle:UIAlertControllerStyleAlert];

    UIAlertAction *cancelAction = [UIAlertAction
        actionWithTitle:alertCancel
        style:UIAlertActionStyleCancel
        handler:^(UIAlertAction *action)
            {
            [mySelf alertView:nil didDismissWithButtonIndex:0];
            }
    ];

...

This uses Apple's recommendation for capturing self in a block: Avoid Strong Reference Cycles when Capturing self

Of course, this method assumes you only have one UIAlertView in the controller and therefore pass nil as its value to the delegate method. Otherwise, you'd need to instantiate (and tag) a "fake" UIAlertView to pass to alertView:didDismissWithButtonIndex.