Question

I want a quick input from a user. I know I can put a UITextField in UIAlertView but it’s sort of a “hack”. Is there an official/alternative way to do this?

It’s pretty surprising that there’s no control for such a typical scenario.

Thanks

UPDATE:
Tried EGOTextFieldAlertView but here’s the result:

and code:

   EGOTextFieldAlertView *alert = [[EGOTextFieldAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Enter the group name" 
                                                                        message:nil 
                                                                       delegate:self 
                                                              cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel" 
                                                              otherButtonTitles:@"OK", nil];
    [alert addTextFieldWithLabel:@"Name"];
    [alert show];
    [alert release];

Answer 1

If you’re willing to require iOS 5 then it’s no longer a hack. UIAlertView now has a alertViewStyle property which, when set to UIAlertViewStylePlainTextInput, adds a single text field to the alert that you can retrieve with -[UIAlertView textFieldAtIndex:].

If you still require 4.3 or earlier, then no, there’s no official way to do this and it really is a big “hack” that’s on par with calling SPI.