Question about the upcomming ads support

MikeHart

I read on the roadmap that you will integrate support for ads. That is a very important feature. I wonder if you implement a more open way, so users can choose every ad provider they wish for can the user choose from a few selected ones?

Also will your solution provide some kind of mediation feature to be able to backfill an ad if the main provider doesn't deliver?

atilim

Hi,

In fact, one can easy integrate ads to the exported Xcode project Up to now, we've only tested admob but other solutions should work also.

MikeHart

I know you can do it this way. But I was more curious about what the support for ads will look like which you have mentioned in the roadmap.

About that workaround you mentioned; Would there be a way to control the ad visibility via LUA then?

atilim

We haven't decided what will the ad API will support. Placement, show and hide will be initially supported but I'm not sure what will we support more.

With the current workaround, there is not way to control the visibility.

gorkem

I'm thinking aloud - the API support should include the following:

- Initialize ad
- Show ad
- Hide ad
- Define backfill image
- Define intervals
- Ad coordinates (flexible: has predefined values like topleft, bottomright, etc)

MikeHart

With backfilling I ment use a different ad provider then. but posting house ads/images would be nice too.

elcanu

Hi,
how i can add my admob ads??
There's "no layouts" (Eclipse),no documentation :S.....

Is possible to make a custom layout with a 2 LinearLayouts, one for all the Giredos work and one for my ads??? (Or for make complementary code/layouts from eclipse)

atilim

Hi,

Yes, it's possible to modify the Activity class of exported project and add LinearLayout and admob.

elcanu

Thank you for the info.

Congratulations for the SDK.