When the focus in a particluar rect of the screen , it need to show up a message and need to hide automatically . Whether alertview will be flexible or any other way is there to implement the stuffs in iPhone and iPad .
You can use timer to close alert after some time, for example:
[[NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:2
target:self
selector:@selector(closeAlert:)
userInfo:nil
repeats:NO] retain];
For more information look here: NSTimer Class Reference