Check if a UIAlertView is showing

Question

I have a method that posts HTTP data and displays a UIAlertView if there is an error. If I have multiple HTTP post I will show multiple UIAlertView for every error.

Answer 1

Swift:

func showAlert(withTitle title: String, message: String, viewController: UIViewController) {
    if viewController.presentedViewController == nil { // Prevent multiple alerts at the same time
        let localizedTitle = NSLocalizedString(title, comment: "")
        let localizedMessage = NSLocalizedString(message, comment: "")
        let alert = UIAlertController(title: localizedTitle, message: localizedMessage, preferredStyle: .Alert)
        let action = UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: .Default, handler: nil)
        alert.addAction(action)

        viewController.presentViewController(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
    }
}

Answer 2

+ (BOOL)checkAlertExist {

    for (UIWindow* window in [UIApplication sharedApplication].windows) {
        if ([window.rootViewController.presentedViewController isKindOfClass:[UIAlertController class]]) {
            return YES;
        }
    }
    return NO;
}

Answer 3

If you can control the other alert views, check the visible property for each of them.

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In iOS 6 or before, when an alert appears, it will be moved to a _UIAlertOverlayWindow. Therefore, a pretty fragile method is to iterate through all windows and check if there's any UIAlertView subviews.

for (UIWindow* window in [UIApplication sharedApplication].windows) {
  NSArray* subviews = window.subviews;
  if ([subviews count] > 0)
    if ([[subviews objectAtIndex:0] isKindOfClass:[UIAlertView class]])
      return YES;
}
return NO;

This is undocumented as it depends on internal view hierarchy, although Apple cannot complain about this. A more reliable but even more undocumented method is to check if [_UIAlertManager visibleAlert] is nil.

These methods can't check if a UIAlertView from SpringBoard is shown.

Answer 4

Why not just check the visible property, maintained by the UIAlertView class?

if (_alert) //alert is a retained property
{
    self.alert = [[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Your Title"
                                             message:@"Your message" 
                                            delegate:self
                                   cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel"
                                   otherButtonTitles:@"OK"] autorelease];
}
if (!_alert.visible)
{
    [_alert show];
}