What's a simple way to get a text input popup dialog box on an iPhone

Question

I want to get the user name. A simple text input dialog box. Any simple way to do this?

Answer 1

Building on John Riselvato's answer, to retrieve the string back from the UIAlertView...

alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Submit", style: UIAlertAction.Style.default) { (action : UIAlertAction) in
            guard let message = alert.textFields?.first?.text else {
                return
            }
            // Text Field Response Handling Here
        })

Answer 2

I would use a UIAlertView with a UITextField subview. You can either add the text field manually or, in iOS 5, use one of the new methods.

Answer 3

Just wanted to add an important piece of information that I believe was left out perhaps with the assumption that the ones seeking answers might already know. This problem happens a lot and I too found myself stuck when I tried to implement the viewAlert method for the buttons of the UIAlertView message. To do this you need to 1st add the delegate class which may look something like this:

@interface YourViewController : UIViewController <UIAlertViewDelegate>

Also you can find a very helpful tutorial here!

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

To make sure you get the call backs after the user enters text, set the delegate inside the configuration handler. textField.delegate = self

Swift 3 & 4 (iOS 10 - 11):

let alert = UIAlertController(title: "Alert", message: "Message", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.alert)
alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Click", style: UIAlertActionStyle.default, handler: nil))
alert.addTextField(configurationHandler: {(textField: UITextField!) in
    textField.placeholder = "Enter text:"
    textField.isSecureTextEntry = true // for password input
})
self.present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)

In Swift (iOS 8-10):

override func viewDidAppear(animated: Bool) {
    var alert = UIAlertController(title: "Alert", message: "Message", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert)
    alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Click", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: nil))
    alert.addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler({(textField: UITextField!) in
        textField.placeholder = "Enter text:"
        textField.secureTextEntry = true
        })
    self.presentViewController(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
}

In Objective-C (iOS 8):

- (void) viewDidLoad 
{
    UIAlertController *alert = [UIAlertController alertControllerWithTitle:@"Alert" message:@"Message" preferredStyle:UIAlertControllerStyleAlert];
    [alert addAction:[UIAlertAction actionWithTitle:@"Click" style:UIAlertActionStyleDefault handler:nil]];
    [alert addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler:^(UITextField *textField) {
        textField.placeholder = @"Enter text:";
        textField.secureTextEntry = YES;
    }];
    [self presentViewController:alert animated:YES completion:nil];
}

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FOR iOS 5-7:

UIAlertView * alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Alert" message:@"INPUT BELOW" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Hide" otherButtonTitles:nil];
alert.alertViewStyle = UIAlertViewStylePlainTextInput;
[alert show];

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NOTE: Below doesn't work with iOS 7 (iOS 4 - 6 Works)

Just to add another version.

- (void)viewDidLoad{

    UIAlertView* alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Preset Saving..." message:@"Describe the Preset\n\n\n" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel" otherButtonTitles:@"Ok", nil];
    UITextField *textField = [[UITextField alloc] init];
    [textField setBackgroundColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
    textField.delegate = self;
    textField.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleLine;
    textField.frame = CGRectMake(15, 75, 255, 30);
    textField.placeholder = @"Preset Name";
    textField.keyboardAppearance = UIKeyboardAppearanceAlert;
    [textField becomeFirstResponder];
    [alert addSubview:textField];

}

then I call [alert show]; when I want it.

The method that goes along

- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex {         
    NSString* detailString = textField.text;
    NSLog(@"String is: %@", detailString); //Put it on the debugger
    if ([textField.text length] <= 0 || buttonIndex == 0){ 
        return; //If cancel or 0 length string the string doesn't matter
    }
    if (buttonIndex == 1) {
        ...

    }
}

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Answer 5

UIAlertview *alt = [[UIAlertView alloc]initWithTitle:@"\n\n\n" message:nil delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:nil otherButtonTitles:@"OK", nil];

UILabel *lbl1 = [[UILabel alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(25,17, 100, 30)];
lbl1.text=@"User Name";

UILabel *lbl2 = [[UILabel alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(25, 60, 80, 30)];
lbl2.text = @"Password";

UITextField *username=[[UITextField alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(130, 17, 130, 30)];
UITextField *password=[[UITextField alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(130, 60, 130, 30)];

lbl1.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
lbl2.textColor = [UIColor whiteColor];

[lbl1 setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
[lbl2 setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];

username.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect;
password.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect;

[alt addSubview:lbl1];
[alt addSubview:lbl2];
[alt addSubview:username];
[alt addSubview:password];

[alt show];

Answer 6

Swift 3:

let alert = UIAlertController(title: "Alert", message: "Message", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.alert)
alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Click", style: UIAlertActionStyle.default, handler: nil))
alert.addTextField(configurationHandler: {(textField: UITextField!) in
     textField.placeholder = "Enter text:"
})

self.present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)