Swift UIAlertController -> ActionSheet iPad iOS8 Crashes

currently i'm running into big trouble with my ActionSheet. On iPhone it works great, but on iPad it only crashes

I create a new project with only one button

import UIKit

extension ViewController : UIActionSheetDelegate {
    
    func actionSheet(actionSheet: UIActionSheet, didDismissWithButtonIndex buttonIndex: Int) {
        
        if actionSheet.tag == 0 {
            if buttonIndex == 1 {
                // doing something for "product page"
            } else if (buttonIndex == 2) {
                // doing something for "video"
            }
        }
    }
    
}

class ViewController: UIViewController, UIActionSheetDelegate {
    @IBAction func test(sender: AnyObject) {
        
        let systemVersion: NSInteger = (UIDevice.currentDevice().systemVersion as NSString).integerValue
        if systemVersion < 8 {
            // iOS7:
            let action:UIActionSheet = UIActionSheet(title: "Change Map Type", delegate: self, cancelButtonTitle: "Back", destructiveButtonTitle: nil, otherButtonTitles: "Product Page", "Video")
            action.tag = 0
            action.showInView(self.view)
        } else {
            // iOS8:
            let alertController: UIAlertController = UIAlertController(title: "Change Map Type", message: nil, preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.ActionSheet)
            let cancelAction: UIAlertAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Back", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Cancel, handler: nil)
            let button1action: UIAlertAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Product Page", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: { (action: UIAlertAction!) -> () in
                // doing something for "product page"
            })
            let button2action: UIAlertAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Video", style: UIAlertActionStyle.Default, handler: { (action: UIAlertAction!) -> () in
                // doing something for "video"
            })
            alertController.addAction(cancelAction)
            alertController.addAction(button1action)
            alertController.addAction(button2action)
            
            self.presentViewController(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)
        }
    }

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
    }

}

As i said on the iphone it works, but if i click the button on iPad the App crashes with

> 2014-09-25 14:54:52.784 test[9541:1970048] *** Terminating app due to > uncaught exception 'NSGenericException', reason: 'Your application has > presented a UIAlertController () of > style UIAlertControllerStyleActionSheet. The modalPresentationStyle of > a UIAlertController with this style is UIModalPresentationPopover. You > must provide location information for this popover through the alert > controller's popoverPresentationController. You must provide either a > sourceView and sourceRect or a barButtonItem. If this information is > not known when you present the alert controller, you may provide it in > the UIPopoverPresentationControllerDelegate method > -prepareForPopoverPresentation.' > *** First throw call stack: ( 0 CoreFoundation 0x00613df6 __exceptionPreprocess + 182 1 libobjc.A.dylib
> 0x01fdaa97 objc_exception_throw + 44 2 UIKit
> 0x0164da37 -[UIPopoverPresentationController > presentationTransitionWillBegin] + 3086 3 UIKit
> 0x00f54f75 __71-[UIPresentationController > _initViewHierarchyForPresentationSuperview:]_block_invoke + 1666 4 UIKit 0x00f53554 > __56-[UIPresentationController runTransitionForCurrentState]_block_invoke + 226 5 UIKit
> 0x00f8721b __40+[UIViewController _scheduleTransition:]_block_invoke + > 18 6 UIKit 0x00e4d62e > ___afterCACommitHandler_block_invoke + 15 7 UIKit 0x00e4d5d9 _applyBlockToCFArrayCopiedToStack + 415 8 UIKit
> 0x00e4d3ee _afterCACommitHandler + 545 9 CoreFoundation
> 0x00536fbe > CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION + 30 10 CoreFoundation 0x00536f00 __CFRunLoopDoObservers > + 400 11 CoreFoundation 0x0052c93a __CFRunLoopRun + 1226 12 CoreFoundation 0x0052c1ab CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 443 13 CoreFoundation
> 0x0052bfdb CFRunLoopRunInMode + 123 14 GraphicsServices
> 0x0438424f GSEventRunModal + 192 15 GraphicsServices
> 0x0438408c GSEventRun + 104 16 UIKit
> 0x00e23e16 UIApplicationMain + 1526 17 test
> 0x00085e9e top_level_code + 78 18 test
> 0x00085edb main + 43 19 libdyld.dylib
> 0x0273eac9 start + 1 20 ???
> 0x00000001 0x0 + 1 ) libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught > exception of type NSException

Project can be found at https://www.dropbox.com/s/54jqd8nsc67ll5g/test.zip?dl=0 for download and try.

The error message is telling you that you need to give the alert controller's popoverPresentationController a location so that it can position itself properly. This is easy to do -- just check to see if there's a popover controller and add the sender as the source.

If your button is a UIBarButtonItem:

if let popoverController = alertController.popoverPresentationController {
    popoverController.barButtonItem = sender
}
self.presentViewController(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)

Otherwise:

if let popoverController = alertController.popoverPresentationController {
    popoverController.sourceView = sender
    popoverController.sourceRect = sender.bounds
}
self.presentViewController(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)

try this

alertController.popoverPresentationController?.sourceView = self.view

If you want to present it in the centre with no arrows on iPads [Swift 3+]:

    if let popoverController = alertController.popoverPresentationController {
        popoverController.sourceView = self.view
        popoverController.sourceRect = CGRect(x: self.view.bounds.midX, y: self.view.bounds.midY, width: 0, height: 0)
        popoverController.permittedArrowDirections = []
    }
    self.present(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)

Nate Cook is totally right however I would do it so I detect if it is iPad or iPhone.

This is for barButtonItem:

if ( UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiom.pad ){
            
            if let currentPopoverpresentioncontroller = alertController.popoverPresentationController{
                currentPopoverpresentioncontroller.barButtonItem = sender as! UIBarButtonItem
                currentPopoverpresentioncontroller.permittedArrowDirections = UIPopoverArrowDirection.down;
                self.present(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)
            }
        }else{
            self.present(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)
        }

var actionSheet = UIAlertController(title: "Please Select Camera or Photo Library", message: "", preferredStyle: .actionSheet)

if ( UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiom.pad ){
    actionSheet = UIAlertController(title: "Please Select Camera or Photo Library", message: "", preferredStyle: .alert)
}

actionSheet.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Upload a Photo", style: .default, handler: { (UIAlertAction) in
    self.openPhotoLibrary()
}))
actionSheet.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Take a Photo", style: .default, handler: { (UIAlertAction) in
    self.openCamera()
}))
actionSheet.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .cancel, handler: nil))
self.present(actionSheet, animated: true, completion: nil)

If someone uses sender : UITapGestureRecognizer this might be helpful.

@objc func popupSettings(sender : UITapGestureRecognizer) {
    .....
    if let popoverPresentationController = alert.popoverPresentationController {
        popoverPresentationController.sourceView = self.view
        popoverPresentationController.sourceRect = CGRect(origin: sender.location(in: self.view), size: CGSize(width: 1.0, height: 1.0))
    }
    self.present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
}

If you want show your alert in center and no arrow, I tryed this, it works on iOS 11.2

swift 4.2 version:

let actionSheet = UIAlertController ......
if ( UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiom.pad ){
        
        if let currentPopoverpresentioncontroller = actionSheet.popoverPresentationController{
            currentPopoverpresentioncontroller.permittedArrowDirections = []
            currentPopoverpresentioncontroller.sourceRect = CGRect(x: (self.view.bounds.midX), y: (self.view.bounds.midY), width: 0, height: 0)
            currentPopoverpresentioncontroller.sourceView = self.view
            self.present(actionSheet, animated: true, completion: nil)
        }
    }else{
        self.present(actionSheet, animated: true, completion: nil)
    }

Objective C version:

UIAlertController* actionSheet 
if (UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad) {
    NSArray *empty;
    UIPopoverPresentationController *currentPopOverPresentationController = [actionSheet popoverPresentationController];
    currentPopOverPresentationController.permittedArrowDirections = empty;
    currentPopOverPresentationController.sourceRect = CGRectMake(CGRectGetMidX(self.view.bounds), CGRectGetMidY(self.view.bounds), 0, 0);
    currentPopOverPresentationController.sourceView = self.view;
    
    [self presentViewController:actionSheet animated:YES completion:nil];
}else{
    [self presentViewController:actionSheet animated:YES completion:nil];
}

To follow up on Nate Cook's answer. If your button is a UIBarButtonItem it may be necessary to perform casting on sender.

if let popoverController = alertController.popoverPresentationController {
    popoverController.barButtonItem = sender as! UIBarButtonItem
}
self.presentViewController(alertController, animated: true, completion: nil)