B4i Library iAdMob

Latest version: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/firebase-admob-v3-00.144798/#content

iAdMob v1.10 adds support for interstitial ads (full screen ads).

In order to show an interstitial ad you need to first request an ad and wait for the Ready event.
If Success is true then there is an ad ready to be displayed. You can then call iad.Show(Page) to show it.
You can also call iad.RequestAd again to request a new ad.

Note that you can show test ads by calling:

iad.SetTestDevices(Array("121212121212")) 'id that is displayed in the logs

The ready event:

Sub iad_Ready (Success As Boolean)
   If Success Then
     Log("iad is ready.")
     iad.Show(Page1)
   Else
     Log("Failed to load full screen ad: " & LastException)
   End If
End Sub

Note that you can show the ad after this event. This event only means that there is an ad ready to be displayed.

Library installation

iAdMob is an internal library now. It is preinstalled with the IDE.

If you are using a local Mac builder you need to download the new SDK and copy GoogleMobileAds.framework to the Libs folder: www.b4x.com/b4i/files/libGoogleAdMobAds.a.zip

Update:

Starting from Google Maps Ads SDK v7.42.0 it is required to add these lines:

#PlistExtra: <key>GADIsAdManagerApp</key><true/>
#AdditionalLib: libsqlite3.dylib
#AdditionalLib: libz.dylib
#AdditionalLib: WebKit.framework

 

[fishwolf]

Sorry, last question

can i capture the interstitial event, in particular a event when the intestitial is closed or go to in timeout ?

 

[Erel]

Check the Page_Appear event. It might be raised when ad is dismissed (I haven't checked it).

 

[fishwolf]

Some interstitial cannot be close, if i click on "x" icon, doesn't close.
Why?

 

[ilan]

Some interstitial cannot be close, if i click on "x" icon, doesn't close.
Why?

are u trying it in debug mode? sometimes it happend to me too but i think its only taking a little bit more to load the ad and after about 3-4 sec the x button works again

i had now issue in release mode ..

 

[fishwolf]

no, i release mode.

sometimes, the interstistial hide about 30 seconds.

 

[Erel]

The close button is handled by Google SDK.

You can use this code in a timer tick event to close the ad:

Dim no As NativeObject = page1
 no.RunMethod("dismissViewControllerAnimated:completion:", Array(True, Null))

 

[ilan]

do you have also the code that perform a tap

 

[fishwolf]

do you have also the code that perform an ad tap

how to get a event for a general tap?

 

[ilan]

it was a joke, i dont think its possible to perform a click...

 

[capisx]

You need to download Google AdMob: https://developers.google.com/mobile-ads-sdk/download

Then copy libGoogleAdMobAds.a to the Libs folder (on the Mac computer!).

Hi Erel,
Where i can find libGoogleAdMobAds.a file? I've already download the admob sdk for IOS v7.0.0 (googlemobileadssdkios.zip) but there is no such file in it.

 

[Erel]

I've updated post #15 with a new link: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/iadmob.47319/#post-300345

 

[quimacama]

My first app with iadmob was rejected because is for kids below 8 years old. Apple says there is no parental gatway for the ads. I have to detect touch event when user click on ads, so when user click on that ads, first show a parental control. I find this link with the solution
https://developers.google.com/mobile-ads-sdk/docs/admob/ios/ad-events
https://developers.google.com/mobile-ads-sdk/docs/admob/ios/ad-events

I can do this with b4i library? How?

 

[Erel]

Which event from this link are you looking for?

 

[Pendrush]

Can you update iAdMOb SDK in libGoogleAdMobAds.a
Message from log

<Google:HTML> You are currently using version 6.12.2 of the SDK, which doesn't officially support iOS 8. Please consider updating your SDK to the most recent sdk version, 7.0.0, to get iOS 8 support, including a fix for smart banner rendering in landscape mode. The latest SDK can be downloaded from http://goo.gl/iGzfsP. A full list of release notes is available at https://developers.google.com/mobile-ads-sdk/docs/admob/ios/rel-notes.

 

[Erel]

Done. Make sure to download the latest version of this library (1.20). Note that you may need to restart the IDE after updating the library.

 

[Hypnos]

Hi Erel,

I can't find the .xml file from the zip file (library 1.20) in #1 ?

 

[Pendrush]

Erel, can you check .zip from #1 xml is still missing.

 

[Erel]

Oops... Fixed.

 

[Pendrush]

on local mac builder i get this error

ld: warning: ignoring file ../../Libs/GoogleMobileAds.framework/GoogleMobileAds, file was built for unsupported file format ( 0x56 0x65 0x72 0x73 0x69 0x6F 0x6E 0x73 0x2F 0x43 0x75 0x72 0x72 0x65 0x6E 0x74 ) which is not the architecture being linked (armv7): ../../Libs/GoogleMobileAds.framework/GoogleMobileAds
Undefined symbols for architecture armv7:
"_OBJC_CLASS_$_GADBannerView", referenced from:
objc-class-ref in libiAdMob.a(B4IAdView.o)
"_OBJC_CLASS_$_GADInterstitial", referenced from:
objc-class-ref in libiAdMob.a(B4IAdView.o)
"_OBJC_CLASS_$_GADRequest", referenced from:
objc-class-ref in libiAdMob.a(B4IAdView.o)
"_kGADAdSizeBanner", referenced from:
-[B4IAdView SIZE_BANNER] in libiAdMob.a(B4IAdView.o)
"_kGADAdSizeFullBanner", referenced from:
-[B4IAdView SIZE_FULL_BANNER] in libiAdMob.a(B4IAdView.o)
"_kGADAdSizeLargeBanner", referenced from:
-[B4IAdView SIZE_LARGE_BANNER] in libiAdMob.a(B4IAdView.o)
"_kGADAdSizeLeaderboard", referenced from:
-[B4IAdView SIZE_LEADERBOARD] in libiAdMob.a(B4IAdView.o)
"_kGADAdSizeSmartBannerLandscape", referenced from:
-[B4IAdView SIZE_SMART_BANNER_LANDSCAPE] in libiAdMob.a(B4IAdView.o)
"_kGADAdSizeSmartBannerPortrait", referenced from:
-[B4IAdView SIZE_SMART_BANNER_PORTRAIT] in libiAdMob.a(B4IAdView.o)
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture armv7
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)


Error: ** BUILD FAILED **


The following build commands failed:
Ld Payload/xxxx.app/xxxx normal armv7
(1 failure)

When I copy file from \b4iBuild\Libs\GoogleMobileAds.framework\Versions\A\GoogleMobileAds to \b4iBuild\Libs\GoogleMobileAds.framework\ and overwrite file with same name (file on second path have this content "Versions/Current/GoogleMobileAds") and 32 bytes in size, my build is success.
I'm unable to make it compile in other way.
Is this OK?

 

[Erel]

I also got this error when I first deployed the new framework. It happened because I've unzipped the SDK on a Windows machine. Apparently it broke something in the framework.

Once I unzipped it on the Mac computer directly it worked.