A Bit of Trouble on Start

Unity Services
1

Hi all,
My application consist of one scene with an option of user to refresh the screen i simply call LoadScene again. I want to show ad on every 5th loading, it works fine on refresh screen . However it never works on a new app start up. It works on unity but it doesnt work on my android. Here is my code, any help would be great.

void Start () {
        Debug.Log (PlayerPrefs.GetInt ("ADNumber"));
        Advertisement.Initialize ("xxxxx", true);
        Invoke ("showAd", 1f); 

    }
   
    // Update is called once per frame
    public void showAd(){
        AdCounter=PlayerPrefs.GetInt("ADNumber");
        AdCounter++;
        if ((AdCounter / 5) * 5 == AdCounter) {  // or AdCounter %5==0 doesnt matter
            Advertisement.Show ();
        }
       
        PlayerPrefs.SetInt ("ADNumber", AdCounter);
        }
2

Could be that the user setting doesnt exist. Try providing a default value

AdCounter=PlayerPrefs.GetInt(“ADNumber” , 0);

3

The problem is splash screen i think. When I called the ads after 3 seconds it worked right after splash screen.
Somehow I need to check when the app is opening and Invoke the ad after 3 seconds,
and on refresh screen i will invoke the ad after 0.5 seconds. Because popping up the ad late after refresh is not very user friendly.

James thanks for your reply, but setting AdCounter to 0 on every start method would never show any ads., I am not calling showAd() method from anywhere else except the start of this script.

4

You misunderstand my code.

Its saying, get me this UserPref, but if it doesn’t exist (because why would it first time) give me a default value.

If you’re still having trouble, I would look at attaching the debugger to your droid and reading the Debug.Log output

adb logcat -s Unity

5

James please let others answer because your are not making sense to me.
Let me restate my question : How do I start my app right after splash screen?

6

Hello @firativerson ,

You should try a coroutine that checks if the ad is ready to show. Until than dont let the game to start.

public void showAd()
    {
        if(Advertisement.IsReady("defaultVideoAndPictureZone"))
        {
        AdCounter=PlayerPrefs.GetInt("ADNumber");
        AdCounter++;
        if ((AdCounter / 5) * 5 == AdCounter) {  // or AdCounter %5==0 doesnt matter
            Advertisement.Show ();
        }
        PlayerPrefs.SetInt ("ADNumber", AdCounter);
        }
        else
        {
            StartCoroutine(WaitandTryAgain());
        }
    }
   
    void IEnumerator WaitandTryAgain()
    {
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(1f);
        showAd();
    }

You can make a timeout variable for slower connections. At least your counter couldnt wasted like this.

Regards,

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awesome piece of code !!! thank you Salazar!!

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