Displaying and handling alerts

One Button

Swift

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    @IBAction func showAlertButtonTapped(sender: UIButton) {
        
        // create the alert
        let alert = UIAlertController(title: "My Title", message: "This is my message.", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert)
        
        // add an action (button)
        alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: nil))

        // show the alert
        self.presentViewController(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
    }
}

Two Buttons

Swift

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    @IBAction func showAlertButtonTapped(sender: UIButton) {
        
        // create the alert
        let alert = UIAlertController(title: "UIAlertController", message: "Would you like to continue learning how to use iOS alerts?", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert)
        
        // add the actions (buttons)
        alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Continue", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: nil))
        alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Cancel, handler: nil))
        
        // show the alert
        self.presentViewController(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
    }
}

Three Buttons

Swift

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    @IBAction func showAlertButtonTapped(sender: UIButton) {
        
        // create the alert
        let alert = UIAlertController(title: "Notice", message: "Lauching this missile will destroy the entire universe. Is this what you intended to do?", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert)
        
        // add the actions (buttons)
        alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Remind Me Tomorrow", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: nil))
        alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Cancel, handler: nil))
        alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Launch the Missile", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Destructive, handler: nil))
        
        // show the alert
        self.presentViewController(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
    }
}

Handling Button Taps

The handler was nil in the above examples. You can replace nil with a closure to do something when the user taps a button, like the example below:

Swift

alert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Launch the Missile", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Destructive, handler: { action in
    
    // do something like...
    self.launchMissile()
    
}))

Notes

Multiple buttons do not necessarily need to use different UIAlertActionStyle types. They could all be .Default.
For more than three buttons consider using an Action Sheet. The setup is very similar. Here is an example.

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