How To Add Delay Before Presenting Second Alert View - ios

Question

Im displaying two Alert Views one after another in succession with the following:
-IBAction
UIAlertView* alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"Alert" message:#"my message" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:#"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil];
[alert setDelegate:self];
[alert show];
}
- (void)didPresentAlertView:(UIAlertView *)alertView
{
[alertView setTitle:#"My new title"];
[alertView setMessage:#"My new message"];
}
The transition from the first Alert View to the second is so fast the user would not have time to read the fist message. Could someone advise how to add a delay between the Alerts. I Think I need to implement an NSTimer but implementing this is where I could use some advice.

Answer 1

I would suggest using dispatch_after, which can be inlined:
double delayInSeconds = 2.0;
dispatch_time_t popTime = dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, delayInSeconds * NSEC_PER_SEC);
dispatch_after(popTime, dispatch_get_main_queue(), ^(void){
// code to be executed on the main queue after delay
});

Answer 2

Try this simple method:
- (void)alertView
{
UIAlertView * alertView = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:#"Get Ready!" message:nil delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:nil otherButtonTitles:nil];
[alertView show];
[self performSelector:#selector(dismissStartAlert:) withObject:alertView afterDelay:5];
}
-(void)dismissStartAlert:(UIAlertView *)alertView
{
[alertView dismissWithClickedButtonIndex:0 animated:YES];
[alertView setTitle:#"My new title"];
[alertView setMessage:#"My new message"];
[alert show];
}