Which iAd Unity plugin do you think is better?

[AnomalusUndrdog]

We’re considering on putting iAds in our game and want to make use of either of the two plugins available: the one from Genesx by Jonaphin and the one from Prime31 Studios.

I am using Unity 3.0 iOS Basic and iOS SDK 4.1. I can upgrade to 4.2 if needed, though I really prefer to switch over only once 4.2 is out of beta.

Our game is targeted to support devices as old as the 1st generation iPhone.

Have any of you tried both? Which do you think is better?

Also, in our game, the GUI fades in and out, will the iAds also fade in/out together with the Unity GUI? Or are the ads displayed on top of Unity, and thereby won’t fade together with the GUI?

I also read this in the Apple developer website:

Prevent A Blank Ad Space From Appearing When Ads Are Not Available

If you have dedicated a section of your app for an iAd, it’s important to incorporate a banner view delegate that will handle common events, including errors. Having the proper delegate to handle errors maintains the visual experience customers have with ads in your app by preventing a blank banner from being displayed when ads are not available. In addition, if your app displays a blank banner when advertisements are not being displayed, your app will be returned to you by the App Review Team for modification before it can be posted to the App Store.

Read the Working with Banner Views section of the iAd Programming Guide for details on using the bannerView:didFailToReceiveAdWithError: method so that your banner view responds correctly when advertisements are not available. Registered Apple Developers can also watch the WWDC 2010 session video Integrating with iAd, which covers ad banner events in the Application Frameworks section of the presentation.

I’m not quite sure, but I think it means I should hide the iAd if no ads are available (i.e. no Internet connection). Do any of the iAd Unity plugins handle this for you? Or is it something I, as the user of the plugin, have to handle myself?

We’re also planning on incorporating OpenFeint, using version 2.7.5 and I heard there are problems with the Genesx iAd plugin and OpenFeint but that people are working on the situation. Please do notify me when there are up-to-date instructions on how to integrate both Jonaphin’s iAd plugin and OpenFeint together properly.

The Prime31 iAd plugin on the other hand, is said to be fully compatible with OpenFeint. Can anyone verify this?

[mikolo]

the iAd PlugIn GenesX is very easy to handle, but i had also a problem in working together with OF.
I read about following in an actuell thread http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/58692-Prime31-Unity-Plugins-Officially-Live! … but i didn`t tryed it yet.

"These are all true plugins that don’t use AppController categories which means they are fully compatible with OpenFeint. You only run into problems with the PlayerPref hack-type plugins (that are not really plugins at all as defined by Unity).

To use any of these plugins with OpenFeint simply rename the OpenFeint PostprocessBuildPlayer to PostprocessBuildPlayer_OpenFeint and you are good to go. "

Another thing i heared is to “weak” against a framework…???