Adding TextField to UIAlertView

Question

I need to add a TextField to an UIAlertView. I understand that apple discourage this approach. So is there any library that i could make use of to add a TextField to a UIAlertView look-alike frame ?

Answer 1

For iOS5:

UIAlertView *av = [[UIAlertView alloc]initWithTitle:@"Title" message:@"Please enter someth" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel" otherButtonTitles:@"OK", nil];
av.alertViewStyle = UIAlertViewStylePlainTextInput;
[av textFieldAtIndex:0].delegate = self;
[av show];

Also, you 'll need to implement UITextFieldDelegate, UIAlertViewDelegate protocols.

Answer 2

Unfortunately the only official API for this is iOS 5 and up, it's a property called alertViewStyle which can be set to the following parameters:

UIAlertViewStyleDefault
UIAlertViewStyleSecureTextInput
UIAlertViewStylePlainTextInput
UIAlertViewStyleLoginAndPasswordInput

UIAlertViewStylePlainTextInput being the one you want.

Messing with the view hierarchy as described above is strongly discouraged by Apple.