How to add TextField to UIAlertController in Swift

Question

I am trying to show a UIAlertController with a UITextView. When I add the line:

    //Add text field
    alertController.addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler { (textField) -> Void in
    }        

I get a Runtime error:

fatal error: unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value

    let alertController: UIAlertController = UIAlertController(title: "Find image", message: "Search for image", preferredStyle: .Alert)

    //cancel button
    let cancelAction: UIAlertAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .Cancel) { action -> Void in
        //cancel code
    }
    alertController.addAction(cancelAction)

    //Create an optional action
    let nextAction: UIAlertAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Search", style: .Default) { action -> Void in
        let text = (alertController.textFields?.first as! UITextField).text
        println("You entered \(text)")
    }
    alertController.addAction(nextAction)

    //Add text field
    alertController.addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler { (textField) -> Void in
        textField.textColor = UIColor.greenColor()
    }
    //Present the AlertController
    presentViewController(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)

This is presented inside my ViewController via an IBAction.

I have downloaded the code from here and it works fine. I copied and pasted that method into my code and it breaks. The presence of self on the last line has no impact.

Solution 1

Swift 5.1

alert.addTextField { (textField) in
    textField.placeholder = "Enter First Name"
}

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Use this code, I am running this code in my app successfully.

@IBAction func addButtonClicked(sender : AnyObject){
    let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Add New Name", message: "", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert)
    alertController.addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler { (textField : UITextField!) -> Void in
        textField.placeholder = "Enter Second Name"
    }
    let saveAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Save", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: { alert -> Void in
        let firstTextField = alertController.textFields![0] as UITextField
        let secondTextField = alertController.textFields![1] as UITextField
    })
    let cancelAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: {
        (action : UIAlertAction!) -> Void in })
    alertController.addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler { (textField : UITextField!) -> Void in
        textField.placeholder = "Enter First Name"
    }
    
    alertController.addAction(saveAction)
    alertController.addAction(cancelAction)
    
    self.presentViewController(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)
}

Edited: Swift 3.0 version

@IBAction func addButtonClicked(_ sender: UIButton){
    let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Add New Name", message: "", preferredStyle: .alert)
    alertController.addTextField { (textField : UITextField!) -> Void in
        textField.placeholder = "Enter Second Name"
    }
    let saveAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Save", style: .default, handler: { alert -> Void in
        let firstTextField = alertController.textFields![0] as UITextField
        let secondTextField = alertController.textFields![1] as UITextField
        print("firstName \(firstTextField.text), secondName \(secondTextField.text)")
    })
    let cancelAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .default, handler: { (action : UIAlertAction!) -> Void in })
    alertController.addTextField { (textField : UITextField!) -> Void in
        textField.placeholder = "Enter First Name"
    }

    alertController.addAction(saveAction)
    alertController.addAction(cancelAction)
    
    self.present(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)
}

Solution 2

To add a text field in Swift 3.0:

let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Title", message: "", preferredStyle: .alert)
alertController.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Save", style: .default, handler: { alert -> Void in
    let textField = alertController.textFields![0] as UITextField
    // do something with textField
}))
alertController.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .cancel, handler: nil))
alertController.addTextField(configurationHandler: {(textField : UITextField!) -> Void in
    textField.placeholder = "Search"
})   
self.present(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)

Solution 3

Solution:

Swift 4.2

Try the following lines and see if it works:

let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Add New Name", message: "", preferredStyle: .alert)

alertController.addTextField { (textField : UITextField!) -> Void in
    textField.placeholder = "Enter Second Name"
}

let saveAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Save", style: .default, handler: { alert -> Void in
    let firstTextField = alertController.textFields![0] as UITextField
    let secondTextField = alertController.textFields![1] as UITextField
})

let cancelAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .default, handler: nil )

alertController.addTextField { (textField : UITextField!) -> Void in
    textField.placeholder = "Enter First Name"
}

alertController.addAction(saveAction)
alertController.addAction(cancelAction)

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

Hope it helps.

Solution 4

So I started checking to see what could possibly have been different in my code to the working code. I noticed that my ViewController extends

UITextFieldDelegate

Which apparently means that I need to set the delegate of any child UITextView:

alertController.addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler { (textField) -> Void in
    searchTextField = textField
    searchTextField?.delegate = self //REQUIRED
    searchTextField?.placeholder = "Enter your search terms"
}

Solution 5

How to add textField to AlertView? Let's keep it short and simple.

This works for Swift 3.0 and above.

var nameField: UITextField?
let alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Add Number", message: nil, preferredStyle: .alert)
// Add textfield to alert view
alertController.addTextField { (textField) in
    nameField = textField
}

First, you instantiate an object of UIAlertController and then you add a text field to it by accessing addTextField member of UIAlertController class.

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Comments

[benc]

UITextField, rather than UITextView ?

[benc]

Is the order of the two alertController.addTextField correct? It seems like "Second Name" would appear above "First Name".

[Phontaine Judd]

This is what I was looking for. I wanted to restrict characters within the text field inside the alert controller. I like your idea of declaring the textField outside the controller. That way I can use textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange. Really good idea. Thanks!