Swift alert view with OK and Cancel: which button tapped?

Question

If you are using iOS8, you should be using UIAlertController — UIAlertView is deprecated.

Here is an example of how to use it:

var refreshAlert = UIAlertController(title: "Refresh", message: "All data will be lost.", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.Alert)

refreshAlert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Ok", style: .Default, handler: { (action: UIAlertAction!) in
  print("Handle Ok logic here")
  }))

refreshAlert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .Cancel, handler: { (action: UIAlertAction!) in
  print("Handle Cancel Logic here")
  }))

presentViewController(refreshAlert, animated: true, completion: nil)

As you can see the block handlers for the UIAlertAction handle the button presses. A great tutorial is here (although this tutorial is not written using swift):
http://hayageek.com/uialertcontroller-example-ios/

Swift 3 update:

let refreshAlert = UIAlertController(title: "Refresh", message: "All data will be lost.", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.alert)

refreshAlert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Ok", style: .default, handler: { (action: UIAlertAction!) in
    print("Handle Ok logic here")
}))

refreshAlert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .cancel, handler: { (action: UIAlertAction!) in
    print("Handle Cancel Logic here")
}))

present(refreshAlert, animated: true, completion: nil)

Swift 5 update:

let refreshAlert = UIAlertController(title: "Refresh", message: "All data will be lost.", preferredStyle: UIAlertControllerStyle.alert)

refreshAlert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Ok", style: .default, handler: { (action: UIAlertAction!) in
      print("Handle Ok logic here")
}))

refreshAlert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .cancel, handler: { (action: UIAlertAction!) in
      print("Handle Cancel Logic here")
}))

present(refreshAlert, animated: true, completion: nil)

Swift 5.3 update:

let refreshAlert = UIAlertController(title: "Refresh", message: "All data will be lost.", preferredStyle: UIAlertController.Style.alert)

refreshAlert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Ok", style: .default, handler: { (action: UIAlertAction!) in
      print("Handle Ok logic here")
}))

refreshAlert.addAction(UIAlertAction(title: "Cancel", style: .cancel, handler: { (action: UIAlertAction!) in
      print("Handle Cancel Logic here")
}))

present(refreshAlert, animated: true, completion: nil)

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