v0.4

The addSubview is not available in UIAlertView in iOS7 any more. The view hierarchy for this class is private and must not be modified.

As a solution, this class creates an iOS7-style dialog which you can extend with any UIViews or buttons. The animations and the looks are copied too and no images or other resources are needed.

As simple as adding the following files to your project:

• CustomIOS7AlertView.h
• CustomIOS7AlertView.m

1. Create the UIView object. (Passing the whole parent view, because some calculations are needed: the dialog comes in the middle etc.)

   CustomIOS7AlertView *alertView = [[CustomIOS7AlertView alloc] initWithParentView:self.view];
   

2. Add some custom content to the alert view (optional)

   UIView *customView ..;
   
   [alertView setContainerView:customView];
   

3. Display the dialog

   [alertView show];
   

• Close the dialog

  [alertView close];
  

• To add more buttons, pass a list of titles

  [alertView setButtonTitles:[NSMutableArray arrayWithObjects:@"Button1", @"Button2", @"Button3", nil]];
  

• You can remove all buttons by passing nil

  [alertView setButtonTitles:NULL];
  

• You can enable or disable the iOS7 parallax effects on the alert view

  [alertView setUseMotionEffects:TRUE];
  

• Handle button clicks with a custom delegate

  First, set the delegate:

  [alertView setDelegate:self];
  

  Then add the delegate methods:

  - (void)customIOS7dialogButtonTouchUpInside: (CustomIOS7AlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex: (NSInteger)buttonIndex
  {
      NSLog(@"Button at position %d is clicked on alertView %d.", buttonIndex, [alertView tag]);
  }
  

This is a really quick implementation, and there are a few things missing:

• Better rotation support (works with landscape and portrait mode too, so the current best practise is to re-open the same dialog once the screen is rotated)
• Adding more buttons: they don't exactly match the look with that of on iOS7

@dingosky for his work on the parallax effects code.

Please feel free to push back anything you think is useful for the project.

License info is here for request. Please suggest a better one if you are familiar with copyright.

Copyright (c) 2013 Richard Dancsi

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