UIAlertView Shows two times - ios

Question

Hope you are all doing good.
Where is my problem is concern one UIAlertView shows twice while executing the code. I have written it within -(void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated as shown following
-(void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
//Finding city Name from coordinate
UIAlertView * alertForCoordinate=[[UIAlertView alloc]initWithTitle:#"Coordinate" message:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"latitude==>%f\nlongitude==>%f",self.userLocation.coordinate.latitude,self.userLocation.coordinate.longitude] delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:#"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil,nil];
[alertForCoordinate show];
[SVGeocoder reverseGeocode:CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(self.userLocation.coordinate.latitude, self.userLocation.coordinate.longitude)
completion:^(NSArray *placemarks, NSHTTPURLResponse *urlResponse, NSError *error)
{
if (placemarks.count>0)
{
CLPlacemark * placemark=[placemarks objectAtIndex:0];
currentLocationUpcoming =[placemark locality];
UIAlertView * alert=[[UIAlertView alloc]initWithTitle:#"Location" message:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"currentLocation==>%#",currentLocationUpcoming] delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:#"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil, nil];
[alert show];
[self.eventsTableView reloadData];
}
}];
}
As view appears First UIAlertView gets call and dismiss automatically then second gets call When I tap OK button of second alert and again first UIAlertView appears . I am struggling with it since last 4 hours and some of the answer put here also not intended the context in which I am working. Can anybody suggest me where I am wrong.
Thanks

Answer 1

You don't actually have the first UIAlertView showing twice - the animation just makes it look like this because you are showing two UIAlertViews in a row. You're probably seeing Alert 1-> Alert 2-> tap OK on Alert 2 -> Alert 1. This is because the UIAlertViews stack up if multiple are shown.
Think of it this way: Alert 1 shows first but animates for only a very brief period until it is interrupted by Alert 2 showing. Dismissing Alert 2 animates Alert 1 onscreen again, and even though it is still the same alert, it looks like it is showing twice.
Try this simple test case:
-(void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
[[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"Alert #1" message: delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:#"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil] show];
[[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"Alert #2" message: delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:#"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil] show];
}
You will see "Alert #1" for a fraction of a second, then "Alert #2" will remain onscreen. Tapping OK on "Alert #2" will show "Alert #1" again because it was below Alert #2 on the stack.

Answer 2

Your second alert overlaping the first one, and after dismissing second alert, the first one reappears on screen.
-(void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
UIAlertView * alertForCoordinate=[[UIAlertView alloc]initWithTitle:#"Coordinate" message:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"latitude==>%f\nlongitude==>%f",self.userLocation.coordinate.latitude,self.userLocation.coordinate.longitude] delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:#"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil,nil];
alertForCoordinate.tag = 1;
[alertForCoordinate show];
}
- (void)alertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView clickedButtonAtIndex:(NSInteger)buttonIndex {
if (buttonIndex == 0 && alertView.tag == 1) {
[SVGeocoder reverseGeocode:CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(self.userLocation.coordinate.latitude, self.userLocation.coordinate.longitude)
completion:^(NSArray *placemarks, NSHTTPURLResponse *urlResponse, NSError *error)
{
if (placemarks.count>0)
{
CLPlacemark * placemark=[placemarks objectAtIndex:0];
currentLocationUpcoming =[placemark locality];
/*****************Second Alert******************/
UIAlertView * alert=[[UIAlertView alloc]initWithTitle:#"Location" message:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"currentLocation==>%#",currentLocationUpcoming] delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:#"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil, nil];
[alert show];
[self.eventsTableView reloadData];
}
}];
}
}

Answer 3

i had same issue "UIAlertView Shows two times", but in my case it was because of coding error with long press gesture recognizer (different than original question, but may be useful for other folks that google uialertview showing twice). inside method to handle long press, i called method to show UIAlertView. my mistake was not recalling that handle long press method gets called twice each time user long presses (once for press and hold down, once when user releases their finger). the correct code recognizes gesture state (code below).
-(IBAction)handleHoldOnContact:(UILongPressGestureRecognizer*)sender {
if (sender.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan){
// NSLog(#"UIGestureRecognizerStateBegan hold");
//Do Whatever You want on Began of Gesture
// ...
} else if (sender.state == UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded) {
// NSLog(#"UIGestureRecognizerStateEnded release");
//Do Whatever You want on End of Gesture
// ...
}
}

Answer 4

I too get the same issue. To overcome this problem, i done the following things. Get the alertview as global variable. And then,
if(!alertForCoordinate){
alertForCoordinate=[[UIAlertView alloc]initWithTitle:#"Coordinate" message:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"latitude==>%f\nlongitude==>%f",self.userLocation.coordinate.latitude,self.userLocation.coordinate.longitude] delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:#"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil,nil];
[alertForCoordinate show];
}
After that, when you clicking "OK" button from the Alertview. set that to nil. Like the following,
alertForCoordinate = nil;
Hope, this will help you.

Answer 5

It could be a case of duplicating a button, and therefore it's IBaction references, in main.storyboard.
I had a button that was styled perfectly in main.storyboard, so I alt drag duplicated it and attached a new IBaction to the viewController. I didn't realize it but when I tapped that new button it fired the IBaction for both the first button and the second button, because it was hooked up to both, as it was a duplicate of the first.
I right clicked the second button in main.storyboard, saw the reference to the IBaction from the first button AND the second, then deleted the reference to the first. Problem solved. What a nightmare. Hope this helps someone.