UIActionSheet customization using private API

Question

I need to add images on action sheet buttons so I used following code

UIActionSheet *actionSheetObject = [[UIActionSheet alloc] initWithTitle:@"Follow Us" delegate:self cancelButtonTitle:kCancel destructiveButtonTitle:nil otherButtonTitles:@"Twitter",@"Facebook",@"Blog",@"LinkedIn",nil];
[[[actionSheetObject valueForKey:@"_buttons"] objectAtIndex:0] setImage:[UIImage imageFromBundle:@"TwitterIcon"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[[[actionSheetObject valueForKey:@"_buttons"] objectAtIndex:1] setImage:[UIImage imageFromBundle:@"FacebookIcon"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[[[actionSheetObject valueForKey:@"_buttons"] objectAtIndex:2] setImage:[UIImage imageFromBundle:@"BlogIcon"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[[[actionSheetObject valueForKey:@"_buttons"] objectAtIndex:3] setImage:[UIImage imageFromBundle:@"LinkedInIcon"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[actionSheetObject showInView:self.view];

OutPut

But My question is it the correct way to achieve this? Means Apple will accept my app on appstore?

Answer 1

99.9% is that Apple will accept this, because compiler will not detect no warnings about this, but there is other problem, Apple can change the name of variables in the UIActionSheet, I mean, this code is risky, but definitely will work and pass the Apple validations.

Answer 2

Don't use private API's, if you want to put your app on AppStore. Apple will reject the app's that use private API's.

According to UIActionSheet Documentation:

UIActionSheet is not designed to be subclassed, nor should you add views to its hierarchy. If you need to present a sheet with more customization than provided by the UIActionSheet API, you can create your own and present it modally with presentViewController:animated:completion:.

As an alternative way you can use a customized UIView with these UIButtons. When it is displayed, you can disable the touch events of parent view, so that it will act same like action-sheet.

Here is an example: Display a custom UIView like a UIActionSheet