Question

using the debugger I’ve ensured [alertView show]; is being called, but the dialog is not viewable, what else do I need to do to get it to show?

- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didReceiveRemoteNotification:(NSDictionary *)userInfo
{
    if( [[userInfo objectForKey:@"aps"] objectForKey:@"alert"] != NULL)
    {
        NSString *msg = [[userInfo objectForKey:@"aps"] objectForKey:@"alert"];
        if(msg != nil) {
            UIAlertView *alertView = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Usage Alert"
            message:msg  delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel" otherButtonTitles:@"Ok", nil];
            [alertView show];
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

Sorry everyone, this turned out to be an issue with my compiler/xCode not actually recognizing the code I had put in or something along those lines, the environment was broken.