Alerts & Pickers by dillidon

Advanced usage of UIAlertController and pickers based on it: Telegram, Contacts, Location, PhotoLibrary, Country, Phone Code, Currency, Date...

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Verdict 37/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 2/5 setup difficulty

Self-host Alerts & Pickers on hetzner CAX11 for $4.13/mo.

Health score
37 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
2 /5
Docker + read README
GitHub stars
5.8k
708 forks

About Alerts & Pickers

From the project's README at github.com/dillidon/alerts-and-pickers. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.

Advanced usage of native UIAlertController with TextField, TextView, DatePicker, PickerView, TableView, CollectionView and MapView. Features [x] Custom pickers based on UITextField, UITextView, UIDatePicker, UIPickerView, UITableView, UICollectionView and MKMapView. [x] Example using a Storyboard. [x] Easy contentViewController placement. [x] Attributed title label and message label. [x] Button customization: image and title color. [x] Understandable action button placement. [x] Easy presentation. [x] Pure Swift 4. Usage New Alert

```swift let alert = UIAlertController(style: .alert, title: "Title", message: "Message") // or let alert

Health score breakdown

6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.

activity
52
maturity
30
community
14
security
70
sustainability
23
adoption
34

Adoption signals

Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.

SignalValueSource
GitHub stars 5.8k github.com/dillidon/alerts-and-pickers
GitHub forks 708 github.com/dillidon/alerts-and-pickers

Release & maintenance

Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.

Project age8.3 yearssince Jan 2018
Last commit2.2 years agoFeb 18, 2024

Self-hosting cost across providers

Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.

ProviderPlanSpecsMonthly
hetzner CAX11 2c · 4GB · 40GB $4.13 USD Deploy →
vultr VC2 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5 USD Deploy →
linode Nanode 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5.12 USD Deploy →
digitalocean Basic Regular 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $6 USD Deploy →

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Spin up a hetzner CAX11 (4GB RAM, 40GB disk) for $4.13/mo and follow the project's official install docs.

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