Change Text Color of Items in UIActionSheet - iOS 8

Question

I had been using following code to change text color of items which I add in UIActionSheet.:

- (void)willPresentActionSheet:(UIActionSheet *)actionSheet {
    for (UIView *subview in actionSheet.subviews) {
        if ([subview isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]]) {
            UIButton *button = (UIButton *)subview;
            [button setTitleColor:[UIColor blackColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
        }
    }
}

It works fine in iOS7, but in iOS8 the above code doesn't change the text color of items.

Now my question is how to change the text color of items which I add in UIActionSheet using iOS8??

Additional Info:
I added breakpoint to see whether following lines from the above code get executed or not:

UIButton *button = (UIButton *)subview;
[button setTitleColor:[UIColor blackColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

These lines do not get executed. So, if([subview isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]]) is always false for all items of actionSheet.subviews. So what I think is that the view heirarchy of UIActionSheet has been changed.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24154889/change-text-color-of-items-in-uiactionsheet-ios-8

Answer 1

There's an easy way if you still want to use UIActionSheet instead of UIAlertController in order to support older iOS versions.

UIActionSheet actually uses UIAlertController in iOS 8, and it has a private property _alertController.

SEL selector = NSSelectorFromString(@"_alertController");
if ([actionSheet respondsToSelector:selector])
{
    UIAlertController *alertController = [actionSheet valueForKey:@"_alertController"];
    if ([alertController isKindOfClass:[UIAlertController class]])
    {
        alertController.view.tintColor = [UIColor blueColor];
    }
}
else
{
    // use other methods for iOS 7 or older.
}

For Swift Below code should works

let alertAction = UIAlertAction(title: "XXX", style: .default) { (action) in

     }

    alertAction.setValue(UIColor.red, forKey: "titleTextColor")