UIAlertController custom font, size, color

Question

I am using new UIAlertController for showing alerts. I have this code:

// nil titles break alert interface on iOS 8.0, so we\'ll be using empty strings
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Answer 1

A Swift translation of the @dupuis2387 answer. Worked out the syntax to set the UIAlertController title's color and font via KVC using the attributedTitle key.

let message = "Some message goes here."
let alertController = UIAlertController(
    title: "", // This gets overridden below.
    message: message,
    preferredStyle: .Alert
)
let okAction = UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: .Cancel) { _ -> Void in
}
alertController.addAction(okAction)

let fontAwesomeHeart = "\u{f004}"
let fontAwesomeFont = UIFont(name: "FontAwesome", size: 17)!
let customTitle:NSString = "I \(fontAwesomeHeart) Swift" // Use NSString, which lets you call rangeOfString()
let systemBoldAttributes:[String : AnyObject] = [ 
    // setting the attributed title wipes out the default bold font,
    // so we need to reconstruct it.
    NSFontAttributeName : UIFont.boldSystemFontOfSize(17)
]
let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: customTitle as String, attributes:systemBoldAttributes)
let fontAwesomeAttributes = [
    NSFontAttributeName: fontAwesomeFont,
    NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.redColor()
]
let matchRange = customTitle.rangeOfString(fontAwesomeHeart)
attributedString.addAttributes(fontAwesomeAttributes, range: matchRange)
alertController.setValue(attributedString, forKey: "attributedTitle")

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