How to use UIAlertController to replace UIActionSheet?

Question

I am maintaining an old iOS project which based on SDK 6.0.

A method on this project called

-(void) showComboBox:(UIView*)view:withOptions:(NSDictiona

Answer 1

While it may look very simple, there is a nasty issue with using UIAlertController. It is memory leaks prone. In order to test if you have the issue, just put a breakpoint at your view controller's dealloc method and see if it's deallocated properly.

I was looking for a solution for quite some time and here is how I use an alert controller in my app.

+ (void)alertWithPresenting:(UIViewController *)presenting title:(NSString *)title
                       text:(NSString *)text buttons:(NSArray *)buttons
                    handler:(void (^)(UIAlertAction *action, NSUInteger index))handler
{
        UIAlertController *alert = [UIAlertController
                                    alertControllerWithTitle:title message:text
                                    preferredStyle:UIAlertControllerStyleAlert];
        __weak __typeof(alert) weakAlert = alert;
        for (NSString *title in buttons) {
                UIAlertActionStyle style = UIAlertActionStyleDefault;
                if ([title isEqualToString:[L10n cancelButton]])
                        style = UIAlertActionStyleCancel;
                else if ([title isEqualToString:[L10n deleteButton]])
                        style = UIAlertActionStyleDestructive;
                else if ([title isEqualToString:[L10n archiveButton]])
                        style = UIAlertActionStyleDestructive;

                UIAlertAction *action = [UIAlertAction actionWithTitle:title style:style handler:^(UIAlertAction *action) {
                        if (handler != nil)
                                handler(action, [buttons indexOfObject:action.title]);
                        [weakAlert dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
                }];
                [alert addAction:action];
        }
        [presenting presentViewController:alert animated:YES completion:nil];
}

This is not all. Here is an example of how you use it in your view controller. In my case its tableview with search, so presenting controller may be different.

- (void) deleteCases:(NSArray *)selectedRows
{
        NSString *text = NSLocalizedStringWithDefaultValue(@"cases.delete.alert.text",
                                                           @"Localizable",  [NSBundle mainBundle],
                                                           @"Deleted cases cannot be restored. Continue with delete?",
                                                           @"Delete alert text");
        NSString *title = NSLocalizedStringWithDefaultValue(@"cases.delete.alert.title",
                                                            @"Localizable",  [NSBundle mainBundle],
                                                            @"Delete cases", @"Detete alert title");
        UIViewController *presenting = self.searchController.active ? self.searchController : self;
        __weak __typeof(presenting) weakPresenting = presenting;
        __weak __typeof(self) weakSelf = self;
        [YourClassName alertWithPresenting:weakPresenting title:title text:text
                                   buttons:@[[L10n deleteButton], [L10n cancelButton]]
                                   handler:^(UIAlertAction *action, NSUInteger index)
        {
                if (action.style == UIAlertActionStyleDestructive) {
                        __typeof(weakSelf) strongSelf = weakSelf;
                        // Perform your actions using @strongSelf
                }
         }];
}