Prevent an UIAlertView from closing on PositiveButton click - xamarin

Question

I am developing mobile application using Xamarin.Forms. I have requirement of getting input in the dialog box. So, i have used UIAlertView for getting text input as like below.
I need to prevent an UIAlertView from closing on button click. I need to retain the UIAlertView dialog box even after the action initiated.
Can anyone please help me on this?
Regards,
Karthikeyan

Answer 1

You could create a custom UIView for this using a Xib file, however if you have no objection to the dialog closing and reopening should it encounter a validation issue then the following would work fine.
EDIT: Adjusted to allow you to pass back the validation message, as the primary message on the UIAlertView.
private string message = string.Empty();
public void recursiveDialog()
{
string input = string.Empty();
if(message == string.Empty()) { message = "Please enter the view name"}
var alert = UIAlertController.Create ("Save View", message, UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert);
alert.AddTextField ((field) => {
field.Placeholder = "view name";});
alert.AddAction (UIAlertAction.Create ("Cancel", UIAlertActionStyle.Cancel, null));
alert.AddAction (UIAlertAction.Create ("Save", UIAlertActionStyle.Default, action => {
input = alert.TextFields[0].Text
}));
if (alert.PopoverPresentationController != null)
alert.PopoverPresentationController.BarButtonItem = myItem;
PresentViewController (alert, animated: true,
action => {
// when a dialog is selected and returns, run validation
if(input == [whatever you want to use to validate it against])
{
// it failed because it already exists for example so change our message
message = "That view name already exists, try again.";
// already exists, so re-run method.
recursiveDialog();
}
else
{
// doesn't alread exist so carry on with whatever you want to do with the name provided.
// clear your message variable
message = string.Empty();
}
});
}