How to make a UIAlert button press advance to next Storyboard? - ios

Question

I'm quite new to Swift (and coding in general) and to this website.
I'm having a little bit of an issue now. In my app, I have an alert when a timer reaches 0. In that alert, there are 2 buttons. One says "Share" and the other says "Continue". I want to make it such that when a user taps "Continue", the next Storyboard will be shown to them. As of now, whatever button I press will dismiss the alert, but stay on the same Storyboard. (It also prints to the console which button I pressed, but of course that's just for me to see).
How do I go about doing this? Here is my code, in case anyone wants to know.
let alert = UIAlertController(title: "Time's Up!", message: "What would you like to do now?", preferredStyle: .Alert)
let firstAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Continue", style: .Default) { (alert: UIAlertAction!) -> Void in
NSLog("You pressed button one")
}
let secondAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Share", style: .Default) { (alert: UIAlertAction!) -> Void in
NSLog("You pressed button two")
}
alert.addAction(firstAction)
alert.addAction(secondAction)
presentViewController(alert, animated: true, completion:nil)

Answer 1

Try with this:
// Create the alert controller
var alertController = UIAlertController(title: "Title", message: "Message", preferredStyle: .Alert)
// Create the actions
var okAction = UIAlertAction(title: "OK", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default) {
UIAlertAction in
NSLog("OK Pressed")
let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "MyStoryboardName", bundle: nil)
let vc = storyboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("someViewController") as UIViewController
self.presentViewController(vc, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
var cancelAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Cancel) {
UIAlertAction in
NSLog("Cancel Pressed")
//do whatever you want here
}
// Add the actions
alertController.addAction(okAction)
alertController.addAction(cancelAction)
// Present the controller
self.presentViewController(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)
If you haven't already set your ViewControllerIdentifier:
You need to set the Identifier value that you can find on the right column

Answer 2

Here is the code that might help you. When you create a AlertController with actions, you can provide the actions and style of the button when you define them. In code below action is in the closure (Block) and style is defined as .Default or .Cancel
let alert = UIAlertController(title: "Time's Up!", message: "What would you like to do now?", preferredStyle: .Alert)
let firstAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Continue", style: .Default) { (alert: UIAlertAction!) -> Void in
// Action when you press button goes here
print("Here you show next storyboard item.")
// Code to push new ViewController. For example :
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(newVCInstance, animated: true)
}
let secondAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Share", style: .Default) { (alert: UIAlertAction!) -> Void in
print("Here you share things.")
// Code to share things.
}
let thirdAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: . Cancel) { (alert: UIAlertAction!) -> Void in
print("Just dismissing the Alert Controller.")
}
alert.addAction(firstAction)
alert.addAction(secondAction)
alert.addAction(thirdAction)
presentViewController(alert, animated: true, completion:nil)