I have created a ContactUsViewController
.
In this controller the user will select a option from a pickerView
and then type a message in a textView
and press the Send Email button.
When they press the button, it creates a MFMailComposeViewController
so they can send the email. Now, when the email is either Sent, Saved, Cancelled or Failed, the MFMailComposeViewController
closes as they are back in my app. I want an alert to then appear to give them an update, on what ever just happened. I have originally set this up using a UIAlertView, and have placed this code in the fun mailComposeController
function, see below:
func mailComposeController(controller: MFMailComposeViewController, didFinishWithResult result: MFMailComposeResult, error: NSError?) {
switch result.rawValue {
case MFMailComposeResultCancelled.rawValue:
NSLog("Email cancelled")
case MFMailComposeResultSaved.rawValue:
NSLog("Email saved")
let sendMailErrorAlert = UIAlertView(title: "Email saved", message: "Your email has been saved in Mail.", delegate: self, cancelButtonTitle: "OK")
sendMailErrorAlert.show()
case MFMailComposeResultSent.rawValue:
NSLog("Email sent")
let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "test", message: "test", preferredStyle: .Alert)
let okButton = UIAlertAction(title: "Okay", style: .Default, handler: nil)
alertController.addAction(okButton)
presentViewController(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)
case MFMailComposeResultFailed.rawValue:
NSLog("Email failed: %@", [error!.localizedDescription])
let sendMailErrorAlert = UIAlertView(title: "Oops!", message: "Looks like something went wrong, and the email couldn't send. Please try again later.", delegate: self, cancelButtonTitle: "OK")
sendMailErrorAlert.show()
default:
break
}
As you can see, I have used the UIAlertView
for Email Saved and Email failed. This works absolutely fine, and shows my alert as expected.
I recently read that UIAlertView
is depreciated since iOS 8, and that we should now use UIAlertController
. Therefore I tried creating the same thing using the UIAlertController
, which you can see for the Email Sent section. However, this doesn't seem to work, it just doesn't show any alert. It does print this error into the logs:
Warning: Attempt to present <UIAlertController: 0x126c50d30> on <XXXX.ContactUsViewController: 0x1269cda70> whose view is not in the window hierarchy!
But I'm not really sure what this is saying, or more importantly, how to fix it.
My questions are:
UIAlertView
?UIAlerController
appear after I have returned from the Mail app?Thanks in advance.
Adding Action Buttons to Alert Dialog To create an action button that the user can tap on, we will need to create a new instance of an UIAlertAction class and add it to our alert object. To add one more button to UIAlertController simply create a new UIAlertAction object and add it to the alert.
var alertView = UIAlertView(); alertView.
I needed an actionSheet rather than an alert, and due to my specific circumstances, none of the solutions here worked. If your UIAlertController isn't showing, an alternative way to do this is to always put it as the topmost window (in Swift 4):
func topmostController() -> UIViewController? {
if var topController = UIApplication.shared.keyWindow?.rootViewController {
while let presentedViewController = topController.presentedViewController {
topController = presentedViewController
}
return topController
}
return nil
}
// Now put up the menu
let menu=UIAlertController(title: nil, message: nil, preferredStyle: .actionSheet)
menu.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Test", style: .default, handler: {_ in self.doTest()} ))
menu.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .cancel, handler: {_ in self.doCancel()} ))
topmostController()?.present(menu, animated: true, completion: nil)
This displays the window regardless of your view controller stack.
I was facing the same problem now after presenting an alert in DispachQueue.main.async{}, code is working fine.
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