UIAlertWrapper

UIAlertWrapper makes using Alert Views and Action Sheets easier by presenting a simple API for both iOS 7 & 8 and both iPads and iPhones.

Why

With iOS 8 presenting Alert Views and Action Sheets just got a lot more complicated. Because while iOS 8 has a nice new interface for presenting them, iOS 7 doesn't. So if your supporting multiple devices and multiple iOS version your code can quickly turn into something like this:

class MultipleCodePathsViewController: UIViewController, UIAlertViewDelegate, UIActionSheetDelegate {

    @IBAction func presentAlert(sender: AnyObject) {
        if isiOS8 {
            // Use UIAlertController
            
            // UIAlertController Alert callbacks
        } else {
            // Use UIAlertView
        }
    }
    
    @IBAction func presentActionSheet(sender: AnyObject) {
        if isiOS8 {
            // Use UIAlertController
            
            // UIAlertController Action Sheet callbacks
        } else {
            // Use UIActionSheet
        }
        
        if isiPad {
            // Present popover
        } else {
            // Present modally
        }
    }
    
    // iOS 7 Alert Delegate
    func alertView(alertView: UIAlertView!, clickedButtonAtIndex buttonIndex: Int) {
        // UIAlertView callbacks
    }
    
    // iOS 7 Action Sheet Delegate
    func actionSheet(actionSheet: UIActionSheet!, clickedButtonAtIndex buttonIndex: Int) {
        // UIActionSheet callbacks
    }
}

Whoa, that got ugly fast. Let's turn this ugly duckling into a swan using UIAlertWrapper.

class SingleCodePathViewController: UIViewController {

	@IBAction func presentAlert(sender: AnyObject) {
        UIAlertWrapper.presentAlert(title: "Alert Title",
            message: "Alert message",
            cancelButtonTitle: "Cancel",
            otherButtonTitles: ["OK"])
            { (buttonIndex) -> () in
                // Alert View callbacks
        }
    }

    @IBAction func presentActionSheet(sender: AnyObject) {
        UIAlertWrapper.presentActionSheet(title: "Button Alert",
            cancelButtonTitle: "Cancel",
            destructiveButtonTitle: "Delete",
            otherButtonTitles: ["Do Stuff"],
            frame: sender.frame)
            { (buttonIndex) -> () in
                // Action Sheet callbacks
        }
    }
}

That's it. No multiple code paths. No more managing delegates and callbacks. Let UIAlertWrapper handle those for you, you have better things to spend your time on.

Use

UIAlertWrapper has three methods:

presentActionSheet(title, cancelButtonTitle, destructiveButtonTitle, otherButtonTitles, frame, clickedButtonAtIndex)

For presenting Action Sheets from a Frame.

presentActionSheet(title, cancelButtonTitle, destructiveButtonTitle, otherButtonTitles, barButtonItem, clickedButtonAtIndex)

For presenting Action Sheets from a Bar Button Item.

presentAlert(title, message, cancelButtonTitle, otherButtonTitles, clickedButtonAtIndex)

For presenting Alerts.

All of these methods will handling displaying the proper format for the proper device. (Popovers for iPads and modally for iPhones.)

Example Project

Included is an example project that shows how to use UIAlertWrapper to present Action Sheets and Alert Views on both iOS 7 & 8 and both iPads and iPhones.

License

Usage is provided under the MIT License.
Copyright (c) 2014 Vernier Software & Technology. All rights reserved.