How to display temporary popup message on iPhone/iPad/iOS

Question

I\'d like to display a temporary message on the iPhone/iPad displaying confirmation of an action, or some quick status about some background activity.

Is there a st

Answer 1

Create a class that inherits from UIAlertView. In your constructor just call [super init] and then add any view you want as a subview. You can even design this view in Interface Builder. Something like this:

- (id)initWithMessage:(NSString *)message dismissAfter:(NSTimeInterval)interval
{
  if ((self = [super init]))
  {
     CustomView * customView = [[[CustomView alloc] init] autorelease]; // or load from NIB
     [self addSubview:customView];
     [self performSelector:@selector(dismissAfterDelay) withObject:nil afterDelay:interval];
  }
  return self;
}

- (void)dismissAfterDelay
{
  [self dismissWithClickedButtonIndex:0 animated:YES]; 
}

To display your custom alert view just init it, and call show as with a regular UIAlertView.

CustomAlertView * cav = [[CustomAlertView alloc] initWithMessage:@"Doing Something];
[cav show];
[cav release];

As an nice side-effect, when you present this view the background will darken and you will get the nice wobbly animation for any alert view.