Hi all,
After finishing game in cocos2dx 2.2.2, I’ve been trying to add AdMob to my game.
I was able to add subview in AppController.mm and I would like to animate ads.
Moves out of screen when game play starts and come back up when game play ends.
I wrote simple animation code and now I am wondering how I could call these functions from CCLayer.
AppController.h
@interface AppController : NSObject <UIApplicationDelegate> {
UIWindow *window;
RootViewController *viewController;
GADBannerView * bannerView_;
}
AppController.mm
- (void) showAdView{
NSLog(@"[AppController]: showAdView");
[UIView animateWithDuration:1.0 animations:^ {
CGRect screenRect = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds];
CGFloat screenHeight = screenRect.size.height;
// Final frame of ad should be docked to bottom of screen
bannerView_.frame = CGRectMake(0,
screenHeight-bannerView_.bounds.size.height,
bannerView_.bounds.size.width,
bannerView_.bounds.size.height);
}];
}
I found some similar posts, and I think I am suppose to use something like SimpleAudioEngine. If so I must have objc.m objc.h cpp.mm cpp.h. I am uncertain what files to hustle with.
Can some one help me out here? I believe there must be simple solution but I am lost in translation.
Thank you!!!
Gene
For what I understood, you need a wrapper C++ class around a ObjectiveC object.
I used this approach for GameCenter, using this amazing post as an example:
Basically you create a C++ class (.h/.mm) in Classes and an Objective-C class (.h/.m) in the iOS folder of your project.
The C++ class is called like
MyClass *class = new MyClass();
class->showAdView();
This C++ version of showAdView is defined into MyClass.mm (.mm holds both C++ and Objective-C code) and should call something like
[[AppController shared] showAdView];
and return.
The trick is to write (in the Objective-C class .m) the shared method to get the shared instance of the Objective-C object you are looking for, something like:
+ (GameCenterIos*)shared
{
@synchronized(self) {
if (instance == nil) {
instance = [[self alloc] init];
[instance registerForAuthenticationNotification];
}
}
return instance;
}
Take a look at the links, the guy who wrote those is way better than me 
Hope this helps! And feel free to correct me if I wrote anything wrong!
Davide Jones
@davidejones88
do you know how to hide and show admob banner in different scene?
I added codes to appcontroller.mm, but i would like to dynamically show the ad or not.
how to achieve it?
davidejones88 THank you!!!
I am digging these right now and soon to be available. Let me finish testing all and share code.
Thanks!!!
@getarobo
Hi getarobo, can’t wait to see your code…
Hi,.
@davidejones88
I finally got it work! Thank you davidejones88 again for pointer!
@fingeraction
GADBannerView inherits UIView and added to RootViewControleler through addSubview. So AdMob is independent from any CCLayer (if I am understanding it right, GADBannerView will be static and re-rendered not so often while cocos2dx view will be rendered often).
Here is my simple summary of how it added AdMob to RootViewControl.mm and how I used wrapper to call Objective C functions from CCScene.
Objective C : singleton class that handles adding animation and animating AdMob
// AdMobObject.m : use this to add, show, hide GADBannerView
#import "AdMobObject.h"
#import "RootViewController.h"
#import "GADBannerView.h"
@implementation AdMobObject
static AdMobObject* instance;
+ (AdMobObject *) shared{
@synchronized(self){
if( instance == nil ){
instance = [[self alloc] init];
}
}
return instance;
}
- (void) setViewController:(RootViewController *)vc{
viewController = vc;
}
- (void) addAdMob{
NSLog(@"----------addAdMob");
bannerView_ = [[GADBannerView alloc] initWithAdSize:kGADAdSizeSmartBannerPortrait];
CGRect screenRect = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds];
CGFloat screenHeight = screenRect.size.height;
[bannerView_ setFrame:CGRectMake(0,
screenHeight - bannerView_.bounds.size.height ,
bannerView_.bounds.size.width,
bannerView_.bounds.size.height)];
bannerView_.adUnitID = @"YOUR-ADMOB-ID";
bannerView_.rootViewController = viewController;
[viewController.view addSubview:bannerView_];
GADRequest *request = [GADRequest request];
// For testing
request.testDevices = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"YOUR-DEVICE-ID", nil];
[bannerView_ loadRequest:request];
}
- (void) showAdMob{
// SHOW SOME THING
}
- (void) hideAdMob{
// HIDE SOME THING
}
@end
//AdMobObject.h
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
@class RootViewController;
@class GADBannerView;
@interface AdMobObject : NSObject{
RootViewController * viewController;
GADBannerView * bannerView_;
}
- (void) setViewController:(RootViewController*)vc;
- (void) addAdMob;
- (void) showAdMob;
- (void) hideAdMob;
@end
Objective C++
// AdMobObjectCPP.mm : wrapper class that will call Objective-C functions
#include "AdMobObjectCPP.h"
#include "AdMobObject.h"
namespace gene {
void AdMobObjectCPP::showAdMob(){
[[AdMobObject shared] showAdMob];
}
void AdMobObjectCPP::hideAdMob(){
[[AdMobObject shared] hideAdMob];
}
}
C Header
// AdMobObjectCPP.h
namespace gene {
class AdMobObjectCPP{
public:
void showAdMob();
void hideAdMob();
};
}
YourScene.cpp
...
//when you want to hide ad
gene::AdMobObjectCPP * admob = new gene::AdMobObjectCPP();
admob->hideAdMob();
...
I hope this helps!
GG
@getarobo
Very well done! This code could be very useful to many people! Thanks for sharing with us
@getarobo
Hi getarobo, thanks for sharing.
I am interested with how to implement those two functions. Could you please advise?
- (void) showAdMob{
// SHOW SOME THING
}
- (void) hideAdMob{
// HIDE SOME THING
}
I got the error saying:
Must set the rootViewController property of GADBannerView before calling loadRequest
when I used your above code to implement mine.
@getarobo
just wondering where did you call this method?
- (void) setViewController:(RootViewController *)vc{
viewController = vc;
}
@davidejones88
Finally there are no error in console, but…ad banner never show…
unless I put the codes in Appcontroller.mm, but in that case, I couldn’t change the position of the banner.
sad…stuck on this almost a week now.
@cocos2dx wrote:
@getarobo
Hi getarobo, thanks for sharing.
I am interested with how to implement those two functions. Could you please advise?
- (void) showAdMob{
// SHOW SOME THING
}
- (void) hideAdMob{
// HIDE SOME THING
}
This will animate(linear move) AdMob to bottom of the screen
- (void) showAdMob{
NSLog(@"[AppController]: showAdView");
[UIView animateWithDuration:1.0 animations:^ {
CGRect screenRect = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds];
CGFloat screenHeight = screenRect.size.height;
// Final frame of ad should be docked to bottom of screenqq
bannerView_.frame = CGRectMake(0,
screenHeight-bannerView_.bounds.size.height,
bannerView_.bounds.size.width,
bannerView_.bounds.size.height);
}];
}
@cocos2dx wrote:
@getarobo
just wondering where did you call this method?
- (void) setViewController:(RootViewController *)vc{
viewController = vc;
}
At AppController.mm, in function (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
add right before cocos2d::CCApplication::sharedApplication()->run();
Make sure your viewController is initialized before you initialize AdMobObject
// adMob
adMobObject_ = [AdMobObject shared];
[adMobObject_ setViewController:viewController];
[adMobObject_ addAdMob];
Hope this helps
GG
Finally there are no error in console, but…ad banner never show…