Strange problem when using Banner Ads & Interstitial Ads

Unity Services
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So I’ve decided to ad Banner Ads to the main menu of my app, and one other scene. When I load the other scenes where I dont want banners to appear (90% of the app) I am using a line of code to hide the banner ads as such:

public void LoadRefTables()
{
SceneManager.LoadScene(“RefTables”);
Advertisement.Banner.Hide();
}

So basically my app is a Question/Testing app, and once you’ve finished answering the questions it displays an interstitial video ad before displaying your final score.

The issue: When banner ads are enabled (using the script in the Unity Ads integration guide) then the interstitial video ad is NOT INTERACTABLE in the Unity Editor - i.e. I can’t close or skip the video ad to get to the final score screen.

I have no idea why that would be, but it would appear that there is a hidden banner ad ontop of the interstitial video ad making it non-interactable - just my guess. Can someone tell me how to work around this? Is there a way to properly destroy the banner ad instead of just hiding it?

I haven’t tested it by building to my device yet, so in the interim ive just commented out the banner initialisation.

2

This should work with no issues when you build to a device. The banner placeholder shown inside the editor doesn’t reflect how live banners function.

3

Hi - yes when building to the device it works fine. However in the editor it doesn’t and that prevents me from being able to test the app end-to-end with commenting out the banner code. Its minor, but perhaps one to add to the backlog to sort out?

4

You’re right, it’s not an ideal situation. In the meantime, you can use platform-dependent compilation to make your banner code only run on live builds and not in the editor: