change text of button and disable button in iOS

Question

How do you change the text of the button and disable a button in iOS?

Answer 1

If you want to change the title as a response to being tapped you can try this inside the IBAction method of the button in your view controller delegate. This toggles a voice chat on and off. Setting up the voice chat is not covered here!

- (IBAction)startChat:(id)sender {
UIButton *chatButton = (UIButton*)sender;
if (!voiceChat.active) {
    UIAlertController* alert = [UIAlertController alertControllerWithTitle:@"Voice Chat"
                                                                   message:@"Voice Chat will become live. Please be careful with feedback if your friend is nearby."
                                                            preferredStyle:UIAlertControllerStyleAlert];
    UIAlertAction* defaultAction = [UIAlertAction actionWithTitle:@"OK" style:UIAlertActionStyleDefault
                                                          handler:^(UIAlertAction * action) {}];
    [alert addAction:defaultAction];
    [self presentViewController:alert animated:YES completion:nil];
    [voiceChat start];
    voiceChat.active = YES;
    [chatButton setTitle:@"Stop Chat" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
}
else {
    [voiceChat stop];
    UIAlertController* alert = [UIAlertController alertControllerWithTitle:@"Voice Chat"
                                                                   message:@"Voice Chat is closed"
                                                            preferredStyle:UIAlertControllerStyleAlert];
    UIAlertAction* defaultAction = [UIAlertAction actionWithTitle:@"OK" style:UIAlertActionStyleDefault
                                                          handler:^(UIAlertAction * action) {}];

    [alert addAction:defaultAction];
    [self presentViewController:alert animated:YES completion:nil];
    voiceChat.active = NO;
    [chatButton setTitle:@"Chat" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
}

}

voiceChat is specific to voice chat of course, but you can use your ow local boolean property to control the switch.