Unable to add UITextField to UIAlertView on iOS7...works in iOS 6

The code below works on iOS6 (and before) but the UITextField does not display in iOS7...any ideas on how to get a UITextField to display in an UIAlterView in iOS7?

UIAlertView* dialog = [[UIAlertView alloc] init];
[dialog setDelegate:self];
[dialog setTitle:@"Enter ESC Score"];
[dialog setMessage:@" "];
[dialog addButtonWithTitle:@"Cancel"];
[dialog addButtonWithTitle:@"OK"];
dialog.tag = 5;

nameField = [[UITextField alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(20.0, 45.0, 245.0, 25.0)];
[nameField setKeyboardType:UIKeyboardTypeNumberPad];
[nameField becomeFirstResponder];
[nameField setBackgroundColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
[dialog addSubview:nameField];
CGAffineTransform moveUp = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(0.0, 0.0);
[dialog setTransform: moveUp];
[dialog show];
[dialog release];

[nameField release];

Code run for iOS6 displays this:

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same code in iOS7 displays this (notice how UITextField is missing and there is no keyboard):

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You can't easily alter the view hierarchy of a UIAlertView in iOS 7. (Nor should you; the documentation specifically tells you not to.) Head over to the developer forums to see a long discussion about it.

One alternative in your case is to set alert.alertViewStyle = UIAlertViewStylePlainTextInput; This will add a text field for you. You can access it in the UIAlertView delegate callback by using UITextField *textField = [alertView textFieldAtIndex:0];.


@Aaron Brager had the right solution. Additionally I added a line after his suggestion to default a Numeric Keypad.

UIAlertView* dialog = [[UIAlertView alloc] init];
[dialog setDelegate:self];
[dialog setTitle:@"Enter ESC Score"];
[dialog setMessage:@" "];
[dialog addButtonWithTitle:@"Cancel"];
[dialog addButtonWithTitle:@"OK"];
dialog.tag = 5;

dialog.alertViewStyle = UIAlertViewStylePlainTextInput;
[dialog textFieldAtIndex:0].keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeNumberPad;

CGAffineTransform moveUp = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(0.0, 0.0);
[dialog setTransform: moveUp];
[dialog show];
[dialog release];

UIAlertView *alertView = [[UIAlertView alloc]
                                  initWithTitle:@"Credit Card Number"
                                  message:@"Please enter your credit card number:"
                                  delegate:self
                                  cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel"
                                  otherButtonTitles:@"Ok", nil];
        [alertView setAlertViewStyle:UIAlertViewStylePlainTextInput];
        /* Display a numerical keypad for this text field */
        UITextField *textField = [alertView textFieldAtIndex:0];
        textField.keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeNumberPad;

[alertView show];

Just working as charm

Two UITextField in UIAlertView for all version of iOS

-(IBAction) showAlertView {

    UIAlertView *alert;  
    UITextField *callForwardNumber;
    UItextField *callForwardCondition;

    alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Enter Phone Number & Rule"
                                   message:@""
                                  delegate:self
                         cancelButtonTitle:@"Cancel"
                         otherButtonTitles:@"Save", nil];

    //alert.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(0, 110);

    callForwardNumber = [[UITextField alloc] init];
    callForwardNumber.keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeNumberPad;
    callForwardNumber.text = [R.prefs objectForKey:@"fwd_number"];
    callForwardNumber.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect;
    callForwardNumber.delegate = self;
    callForwardNumber.tag = 1;

    callForwardCondition = [[UITextField alloc] init];
    callForwardCondition.text = callCondition;
    callForwardCondition.borderStyle = UITextBorderStyleRoundedRect;
    callForwardCondition.delegate = self;
    callForwardCondition.tag = 2;
    [callForwardCondition setKeyboardType:UIKeyboardTypeNumberPad];

if (floor(NSFoundationVersionNumber) > NSFoundationVersionNumber_iOS_6_1) {
    UIView* customAccessory = 
                   [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 250, 55)];
    callForwardNumber.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 245.0, 25.0);
    callForwardCondition.frame = CGRectMake(0, 30.0, 245.0, 25.0);
    [customAccessory addSubview:callForwardNumber];
    [customAccessory addSubview:callForwardCondition];
    [alert setValue:customAccessory forKey:@"accessoryView"];
    [alert show];
} else {
    alert.message = @"\n\n\n";
    [alert show];
    callForwardNumber.frame = CGRectMake(20.0, 45.0, 245.0, 25.0);
    callForwardCondition.frame = CGRectMake(20.0, 75.0, 245.0, 25.0);
    [alert addSubview:callForwardNumber];
    [alert addSubview:callForwardCondition];
}

}