How to show UIAlertController from Appdelegate

Question

I\'m working with PushNotification on iOS app. I would like to show a UIalertcontroller when the app receive a notification.

I try this code below in the AppDelegate

Answer 1

I have written a static class to make code reusable in swift 4, This class provied different methods for showing alerts.

        class AlertUtility: NSObject {

        static func showAlert(title: String!, message : String!, viewController: UIViewController) {
            let alert = UIAlertController(title: title, message: message ,preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.alert)

            alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: NSLocalizedString("OK", comment: "ok"), style: UIAlertActionStyle.cancel, handler: nil))

            viewController.present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
        }

        static func showAlertAutoDismiss(title: String!, message : String!) -> Void {
            //let appDelegate = UIApplication.shared.delegate as! AppDelegate

            // the alert view
            let alert = UIAlertController(title: title, message: message, preferredStyle: .alert)

            let topWindow = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
            topWindow.rootViewController = UIViewController()
            topWindow.windowLevel = UIWindowLevelAlert + 0.8

            topWindow.makeKeyAndVisible()
            topWindow.rootViewController?.present(alert, animated: true, completion: {})

            // change to desired number of seconds (in this case 5 seconds)
            let when = DispatchTime.now() + 1
            DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: when){
                // your code with delay
                alert.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
                topWindow.isHidden = true
            }
        }

        // Show alert view with call back
        static func showAlertWithCB(title: String, message: String, isConditional: Bool, viewController: UIViewController, completionBlock: @escaping (_: Bool) -> Void) {

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

            // Check whether it's conditional or not ('YES' 'NO, or just 'OK')
            if isConditional
            {
                alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: NSLocalizedString("yes", comment: ""), style: UIAlertActionStyle.default, handler: { (action: UIAlertAction) in
                    alert.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
                    completionBlock(true)
                }))

                alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: NSLocalizedString("no", comment: ""), style: UIAlertActionStyle.default, handler: { (action: UIAlertAction) in
                    alert.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
                    completionBlock(false)
                }))
            }
            else
            {
                alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: NSLocalizedString("OK", comment: "ok"), style: UIAlertActionStyle.default, handler: { (action: UIAlertAction) in
                    alert.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
                    completionBlock(true)
                }))
            }

            viewController.present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
        }

        static func showAlert(title: String!, message : String!) -> Void {
            //let appDelegate = UIApplication.shared.delegate as! AppDelegate

            // the alert view
            let alert = UIAlertController(title: title, message: message, preferredStyle: .alert)

            let topWindow = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
            topWindow.rootViewController = UIViewController()
            topWindow.windowLevel = UIWindowLevelAlert + 1
            topWindow.makeKeyAndVisible()
            topWindow.rootViewController?.present(alert, animated: true, completion: {})

            alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: NSLocalizedString("OK", comment: "ok"), style: UIAlertActionStyle.cancel, handler: {(_ action: UIAlertAction) -> Void in
                // continue your work
                // important to hide the window after work completed.
                // this also keeps a reference to the window until the action is invoked.
                topWindow.isHidden = true
            }))

        }

        static func showComingSoon(viewController: UIViewController) {
            let alert = UIAlertController(title: "", message: "Coming Soon", preferredStyle: .alert)

            viewController.present(alert, animated: true, completion: {})

            // change to desired number of seconds (in this case 1 seconds)
            let when = DispatchTime.now() + 0.6
            DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: when){
                // your code with delay
                alert.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
            }
        }

        static func showGenericErrorMessageAlert(viewController: UIViewController) {
            let alert = UIAlertController(title: NSLocalizedString("error", comment: ""), message: NSLocalizedString("generic.error.message", comment: "") ,preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.alert)

            alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: NSLocalizedString("OK", comment: "ok"), style: UIAlertActionStyle.cancel, handler: nil))

            viewController.present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
        }

 static func showAlertWithTextField(viewController : UIViewController,completionBlock: @escaping (_: Bool, String) -> Void) {

        //1. Create the alert controller.
        let alert = UIAlertController(title: "Report Event?", message: "", preferredStyle: .alert)
        alert.view.tintColor = APP_ORANGE_COLOR
        //2. Add the text field. You can configure it however you need.
        //AlertUtility.addte
        alert.addTextField { (textField) in

            let heightConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: textField, attribute: .height, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: nil, attribute: .notAnAttribute, multiplier: 1, constant: 50)
            textField.addConstraint(heightConstraint)
            textField.placeholder = "Enter report reason here"
            textField.tintColor = APP_ORANGE_COLOR
            textField.autocapitalizationType = .sentences
        }

        // 3. Grab the value from the text field, and print it when the user clicks OK.
        alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .cancel, handler: { (_) in
            // Force unwrapping because we know it exists.
            completionBlock(true,"")
            //print("Text field: \(textField.text)")
        }))

        // 3. Grab the value from the text field, and print it when the user clicks OK.
        alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Submit", style: .default, handler: { [weak alert] (_) in
            let textField = alert?.textFields![0] // Force unwrapping because we know it exists.
            completionBlock(true,(textField?.text)!)
            //print("Text field: \(textField.text)")
        }))

        // 4. Present the alert.
        viewController.present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)

        let textField = alert.textFields![0]
        let v = UIView.init(frame: textField.frame)
        textField.addSubview(v)
        v.frame = textField.frame
        v.bounds = textField.bounds
        v.backgroundColor = APP_ORANGE_COLOR
        v.superview?.bringSubview(toFront: v)
       }

    }