iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

Displaying User Alerts

In this section, you are going to learn about user alerts and the different ways of configuring and displaying them. User alerts can provide your application with a better user experience, so you will use them fairly often.

Alerts are often used to warn users that an important action is about to happen and perhaps give them the opportunity to cancel that action. When you want to display an alert, you create an instance of UIAlertController with a preferred style. The two available styles are UIAlertControllerStyle.ActionSheet and UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert (Figure 10.9). The .ActionSheet style is used to present the user with a list of actions from which to choose. The .Alert type is used to display critical ...