Cant dismiss UIAlertView, buttons not clickable - ios

Question

I have the following code where i show a MBProgress view and then run code in a separate thread. I then get a handle to the main thread and dismiss the spinner which works and then i show a UIAlertView. The UIAlertView loads fine however i can not click any of the buttons. If the alert view is outside of the dispatch block it works fine. Any ideas?
[MBProgressHUD showHUDAddedTo:self.view animated:YES];
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue( DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_LOW, 0), ^{
// Do something...
GamePlayManager *gameManager = [GamePlayManager alloc];
Session *sess = [Session sharedInstance];
//Add the last actor to the end of the list
NSMutableDictionary *connections = sess.connections;
[connections setObject:sess.secondActor forKey:[NSString stringWithFormat:#"%d",kLastFieldtag]];
BOOL result = [gameManager areAnswersCorrect:sess.connections startingActor:sess.firstActor endingActor:sess.secondActor];
NSString *display = #"Sorry incorrect. Please recheck your answers.";
UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"Result"
message:display
delegate:self
cancelButtonTitle:#"Cancel"
otherButtonTitles:#"OK", nil];
if (result)
{
display = #"You are correct! You Won!";
if (sess.isMutiplayerGame)
{
[_gameCenterController endGame];
[self showGameOverScreen:YES isMultiplayer:YES];
}
else
{
[self showGameOverScreen:YES isMultiplayer:NO];
}
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
[MBProgressHUD hideHUDForView:self.view animated:YES];
[alert show];
});
}
else
{
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
[MBProgressHUD hideHUDForView:self.view animated:YES];
[alert show];
});
}
});

Answer 1

This is likely an issue caused by a clash between the MBProgressHUD's animation and the UIAlertView's animation.
I've never used MBProgressHUD, but looking at the code on GitHub it seems they've already solved your problem. MBProgressHUD has a completionBlock property.
Code like this should work: (Warning: Untested)
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^{
[MBProgressHUD HUDForView:self.view].completionBlock = ^{
[alert show];
};
[MBProgressHUD hideHUDForView:self.view animated:YES];
});
MBProgressHUD fires its completionBlock after the view has finished its animation, so there should no longer be a conflict.
As a side note the MBProgressHUD method:
- (void)showAnimated:(BOOL)animated
whileExecutingBlock:(dispatch_block_t)block
onQueue:(dispatch_queue_t)queue
completionBlock:(MBProgressHUDCompletionBlock)completion;
seems like it would be a better fit for your code.

Answer 2

Declare the alert view outside the threads with block:
__block UIAlertView *alert;