Help with iAds

Unity Engine
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1

Hi all,

I’m using the code below to display iAds at the top of my screen and disable them when it detects the ‘End iAds’ gameobject.

But I am having a couple of problems:

  1. If a banner doesn’t load, the app crashes when it tries to banner.Hide();
  2. When the test banner does load and it tries to refresh, if it does not receive a refreshed ad i just get a white banner across the
    top of my screen. and the banner.Hide(); command doesn’t remove it.
pragma strict
private var banner : ADBannerView = null;

function Start () {

		banner = new ADBannerView();
        banner.autoSize = true;
        banner.autoPosition = ADPosition.Top;
        StartCoroutine(ShowBanner());
}

function ShowBanner () {
    yield WaitForSeconds (2.0f);
    StartCoroutine(ShowBanner2());
    }
   
function ShowBanner2() {
    while (!banner.loaded  banner.error == null)
        yield;
        
    if (banner.error == null)
        banner.Show();
    else banner = null;
}

function Update () {

if (GameObject.Find("End iAds") != null)
	{
		banner.Hide();
	}
}

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

2

For issue #1 you could just check banner.loaded first like in your ShowBanner2 function (by the way, seems to me you could merge ShowBanner and ShowBanner2). For issue #2, I submitted a bug report for that last year, but you could submit another one and see if it gets more attention.

3

Thanks for the info!

4

By the way, issue #2 is why I’m still using the prime31 iAd plugin.

5

just fyi
for 4.3 (yeah, i know it is not quite around the corner) we rewrote iAD completely and greatly simplified script API. Sure, both points are solved 8)

6

iAds have been around for years why has it taken so long to sort out?, a bug report was submitted a year ago.

7

Changed the Update function to this in the end, seems to be working.

function Update () {

if (banner.error)
	{
	banner.Hide();
	StartCoroutine(ShowBanner2());     //immediately tries to load banner again
	}

else{

if (GameObject.Find("End iAds") != null)
	{
		if (banner.loaded)
		{
			banner.Hide();
		}
	}