UIAlertView with a textfield not popping up keyboard in iOS 8 [duplicate]

Question

I have a UIAlertView with a textfield inside (UIAlertViewStylePlainTextInput) that automatically pops up a keyboard in iOS 7. However, when I upgraded to iOS 8, the keyboard didn't automatically popup and instead I would have to tap on the textfield to get the keyboard to popup. Is there anyway to restore that automatic keyboard popup to the UIAlertView textfield when I call it?

 UIAlertView * alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"" message:@"The amount?" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel" otherButtonTitles:@"Ok", nil];
    alert.alertViewStyle = UIAlertViewStylePlainTextInput;
    UITextField * alertTextField = [alert textFieldAtIndex:0];
    alertTextField.keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeNumberPad;
    [alertTextField setTextAlignment:NSTextAlignmentCenter];
    [alert show];
    [alert release];

Update: [alertTextField becomeFirstResponder]; does not work nor does

 [[alert textFieldAtIndex:0] setDelegate:self];
 [[alert textFieldAtIndex:0] becomeFirstResponder];

Also, there is a textfield flashing indicator inside the textview, which is problematic because there is no actual keyboard that pops up automatically until the user taps on the textfield itself.

Answer 1

I had to unselect "Connect Hardware Keyboard" in the iOS Simulator Hardware->Keyboard menu options for running in iOS 8.