UITextField in UIAlertView alternative?

Question

I want a quick input from a user. I know I can put a UITextField in UIAlertView but it\'s sort of a \"hack\". Is there an official/alternative way to do this?

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Answer 1

If you're willing to require iOS 5 then it's no longer a hack. UIAlertView now has a alertViewStyle property which, when set to UIAlertViewStylePlainTextInput, adds a single text field to the alert that you can retrieve with -[UIAlertView textFieldAtIndex:].

If you still require 4.3 or earlier, then no, there's no official way to do this and it really is a big "hack" that's on par with calling SPI.