Ads Interface

larf · September 2013

Has anyone got ads working on iOS?
I've been trying and I can get test ads and real ads to show up for AdMob on android.

I can only get test ads to show up on iOS though, no real ads.
If I attach an event listener it always gives the AD_DISMISSED event before it gieves me the AD_FAILED event.

Any ideas @ar2rsawseen or @MobAmuse

unlying · September 2013

@larf Admob works for me in ios, but without using adsinterface. With ads interface i can't publish a game.

larf · September 2013

@unlying Really? how did you get it to work? Did you use a different plugin or something?

ar2rsawseen · September 2013

from my side, just wanted to tell, that will release update for android soon and then jump to ios testing and fixing

larf · September 2013

@ar2rsawseen Sounds good. I'll look forward to it!

unlying · September 2013

@larf you can try this http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/comment/25018#Comment_25018

vitalitymobile · September 2013

Really? I make it works in my upcoming game after google to fix some bugs. It works perfectly on android and works fine on ios with some bugs. Still looking forward to stable version from @ar2rsawseen :P

unlying · September 2013

@vitalitymobile is your game published in apple appstore?

vitalitymobile · September 2013

@unlying I am coding IAP function and will submit it soon. But I glad to share with you some code that i make "walk around" :P (I spent a day to resolve it!)
Ah, or did you mean that apple do not allow to submit your game that using adsinterface?
By the way, as i said, still waiting for the stable version from @ar2rsawseen

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larf · September 2013

Thanks @unlying. I'll check that out. Are you able to use any event listeners for ad_loaded or ad_failed etc?

@vitalitymobile are you using ads interface in your AdsTest? What kind of trouble did you have to get it working? And how did you resolve it?

It will be awesome @ar2rsawseen get's ads interface to stable version. Looking forward to that

vitalitymobile · September 2013

@larf yes i am using ads interface plugin in AdsTest project. As i remember, I need to add -ObjC to Other Linker Flags (In build setting tab), and the plugin sometime show error exc_bad_access in setKey/getKey function so I always call admob:setKey() before call admob :showAd()

ar2rsawseen · September 2013

Updated Ads interface with lots of Android fixes, now will try out IOS side hopefully, there will be an update next wee on ios

larf · September 2013

@vitalitymobile That's interesting, I can see from your screen shot that you are recieving real ads. Have you tried it on a real iOS device, not the emulator? My mac is too old to run anything on the emulator so I always use a device to test.

I have the -ObjC flag and I always call setKey() before showAd() and I'm still not able to receive any real ads. I'll try your xcode project on and compare it to mine to see if I can find something you're doing different.

Edit: Actually I tried it on the simulator, works well enough for simple tests. I get the same result. Test ads only. Real ads fail.

larf · September 2013

I should mention that what I've been trying to do is build an iOS player with the ads interface, not an app for distribution. I'm not sure if that makes any difference.

vitalitymobile · September 2013

@larf I am only trying to build and test on emulator and then on real device, not in iOS gideros player.
But I think they are the same...
Bellow are screenshot that capture from real iphone 3gs device. So I think you should re-check your admob id (is this for iphone or android...) and maybe it takes sometime to active and serve ads!

larf · September 2013

@vitalitymobile I have no problem getting real ads with andoid. It's just iOS that I'm having a problem with.

I tried your AdsTest project on my mac and it worked! So there must be something I'm doing wrong in my xcode project. I'll see if I can figure it out Thanks!

ar2rsawseen · September 2013

@larf then it sounds it is something with your admob account, you probably need to specify that you want to use ios app and provide the key specific to your ios app

larf · September 2013

@ar2rsawseen Oh! Oops... I forgot that the ads are platform specific. Sorry for the trouble. It's working now

unlying · September 2013

@vitalitymobile Yes, apple will not allow to publish a game with current ads interface.

vitalitymobile · September 2013

@unlying what did apple say about the reason?

unlying · September 2013

smth like that:
"- Apps are not permitted to access the UDID and must not use the uniqueIdentifier method of UIDevice"

ar2rsawseen · September 2013

Yes yes, that is due to Admob support of I think ios 4 devices, will have to remove that

larf · September 2013

So admob will only be available for iOS 5 and newer then?

ar2rsawseen · September 2013

Most probably, but will try to test it
Lots of frameworks, like Flurry and many ad frameworks became backwards incompatible because of sudden change in Apple thoughts of restricting UDID usage.

So most probably AdMob will not be the only one

larf · September 2013

That sucks. It means that if we want to monetize our apps with ads we basically have to drop support for devices older that iPhone 3gs. But, I guess when Gideros adopts OpenGL ES 2.0 we would have to do that anyway.

ar2rsawseen · September 2013

Yes you are right, and Apple wishes for developers to stop supporting, so users of old devices should upgrade faster to newer once

But on the other hand, ios5 > version distribution is around 0.5%
http://david-smith.org/iosversionstats/

larf · September 2013

Yeah, Apple wants everyone to buy a new device every year or two it seems. Google doesn't seem to care as much about device sales because they don't they don't produce devices like apple does.

Seeing that chart makes me feel much better about not supporting iOS 4 anymore. It looks like iOS 4 users are less that 1% on most iOS devices

ar2rsawseen · September 2013

Updated Ads Interface:
version 0.96
Android Tapjoy removed dailyrewards (deprecated)
Android updated Tapjoy SDK
IOS added Tapjoy support
IOS updated Admob SDK (IOS 7 compatible)
IOS removed UDID usage from Admob Interface
IOS updated InMobi SDK (IOS 7 compatible)
IOS updated HeyZap SDK (IOS 7 compatible)
IOS updated AdColony SDK (IOS 7 compatible)
Updated Gideros example project
Updated Ads Interface Usage Matrix

ar2rsawseen · September 2013

Now about Tapjoy rewards, so how does they actually work.
If they are like AdColony ones, where it is simply another ad type and you get notified of event when user finished the task and need to update the currency internally for some arbitrary amount (which you decided on your app side and is not passed through the event from) that is doable.
So anyone has any experience with TapJoy and can share?

unlying · October 2013

I notice that i have blank file, where you have a folder with Headers. How is it possible? What i'm doing wrong?

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