Enable UIAlertAction of UIAlertController only after input is validated

Question

I am using a UIAlertController to present a dialog with a UITextField and one UIAlertAction button labeled "Ok". How do I disable the button until a number of characters (say 5 characters) are input into the UITextField?

Answer 1

Add following property in your header file

@property(nonatomic, strong)UIAlertAction *okAction;   

then copy the following code in your viewDidLoad method of your ViewController

self.okAction = [UIAlertAction actionWithTitle:@"OK"
                                         style:UIAlertActionStyleDefault
                                       handler:nil];
self.okAction.enabled = NO;

UIAlertController *controller = [UIAlertController alertControllerWithTitle:nil
                                                                    message:@"Enter your text"
                                                             preferredStyle:UIAlertControllerStyleAlert];

[controller addTextFieldWithConfigurationHandler:^(UITextField *textField) {

    textField.delegate = self;
}];

[controller addAction:self.okAction];
[self presentViewController:controller animated:YES completion:nil];

Also implement the following UITextField delegate method in your Class

- (BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string{

    NSString *finalString = [textField.text stringByReplacingCharactersInRange:range withString:string];
   [self.okAction setEnabled:(finalString.length >= 5)];
   return YES;
}

This should work