How to call iads in Codea code?

General
1

Hi all!

I have finally gotten iAds almost working. The Xcode part is done, but I am running into a couple problems with the Lua code side.

When I call the iAd with showAdFromTop() and run the build, I get a message at the bottom in Xcode saying “showBannerViewAnimated: Unable to display banner, no ads loaded.”

Do I need to set up iAds on my apple dev account set up in xcode with the bundle ID before the ads will work? Or do I need to do more in Codea than just call showAdFromTop()?

Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

2

I’m assuming you’ve checked out the tutorials at http://codeatuts.blogspot.com.au/

3

After messing with it more, the show ads is working, but I had the showAdFromTop() in the draw() function and it was getting called 60 times per second, which is what was throwing it off.

I put the showAdFromTop() into the function that changed gameState and it worked perfect.

Once I figure this all out I’m going to write an up to date in depth tutorial on how to implement iAds into your universal project.

For anyone curious, and for future reference for myself here is the lua code that works as universal and iAds showing in the try again screen:


displayMode(FULLSCREEN)
supportedOrientations(PORTRAIT_ANY)
function setup()
    ast={}
    ship=readImage("Space Art:Red Ship")
    asteroid=readImage("Space Art:Asteroid Large")
    bg=readImage("SpaceCute:Background")
    astFreq=1.5
    astSpeed=-HEIGHT/114
    score=0 -- starting score
    timer=0
    rectMode(CENTER)
    if readLocalData("HS")== nil then
        saveLocalData("HS", 0)
    end
    music("A Hero's Quest:Battle",true,.5)
    gameState=0
    font("Futura-CondensedExtraBold")
    fontSize(HEIGHT/16)
    fill(0, 255, 0, 255)
    shipX=WIDTH/2
    shipY=HEIGHT/4
end
function spawn()
    table.insert(ast,vec2(math.random(WIDTH/8,WIDTH-WIDTH/8),HEIGHT+HEIGHT/8))
end
function draw()
    if gameState==0 then
        sprite(bg,WIDTH/2,HEIGHT/2,WIDTH,HEIGHT)
        text("PLAY",WIDTH/2,HEIGHT/2)
        if CurrentTouch.state==BEGAN then
            if CurrentTouch.x>WIDTH/2-WIDTH/3 and CurrentTouch.x<WIDTH/2+WIDTH/3
            and CurrentTouch.y>HEIGHT/2-HEIGHT/8 and
            CurrentTouch.y<HEIGHT/2+HEIGHT/8 then
                gameState=1
            end
        end
    end
    if gameState==1 then
        sprite(bg,WIDTH/2,HEIGHT/2,WIDTH,HEIGHT)
        pushStyle()
        text("Score: "..score, WIDTH/2, HEIGHT/1.2)
        popStyle()
    for a,b in pairs(ast) do
        sprite(asteroid,b.x,b.y,WIDTH/4,HEIGHT/4)
        b.y=b.y+astSpeed
    end
    timer=timer+DeltaTime
    if timer>astFreq then
        spawn()
        spawn()
        spawn()
        timer=0 
        end
    for a,b in pairs(ast) do
        if b.y<-HEIGHT/8 then
            table.remove(ast,a)
            score=score+10
        end
    end
    if CurrentTouch.x <= WIDTH / 2 and CurrentTouch.state ~= ENDED and 
        CurrentTouch.state ~= CANCELLED then
            shipX=shipX-WIDTH/64
        end
    if CurrentTouch.x>WIDTH/2 and CurrentTouch.state ~= ENDED and 
        CurrentTouch.state ~= CANCELLED then
            shipX=shipX+WIDTH/64
        end
    sprite(ship,shipX,shipY,WIDTH/12,HEIGHT/10.67)
    for a,b in pairs(ast) do
            if b.y-HEIGHT/10.667<=shipY+HEIGHT/21.33 and
            b.y+HEIGHT/6.4>=shipY-HEIGHT/21.33 and
            b.x-WIDTH/8<=shipX+WIDTH/24 and b.x+WIDTH/8>=shipX-WIDTH/24 then
                gameState=2
                showAdFromTop()
            end
        end
    if shipX-WIDTH/24<0 or shipX+WIDTH/24>WIDTH then
            gameState=2
            showAdFromTop()
        end
    end
    if gameState==2 then
        sprite(bg,WIDTH/2,HEIGHT/2,WIDTH,HEIGHT)
        text("RETRY",WIDTH/2,HEIGHT/4)
        if score > readLocalData("HS") then
            saveLocalData("HS", score)
            end
        text("Score: "..score, WIDTH/2,HEIGHT/1.2)
        text("HighScore: "..readLocalData("HS"),WIDTH/2,HEIGHT/2)
        if CurrentTouch.state==BEGAN then
            if CurrentTouch.x>WIDTH/2-WIDTH/7.68 and 
            CurrentTouch.x<WIDTH/2+WIDTH/7.68
            and CurrentTouch.y>HEIGHT/4-HEIGHT/16 and 
                CurrentTouch.y<HEIGHT/4+HEIGHT/16 then
                score=0
                gameState=0
                hideAd()
                shipX=WIDTH/2
                for i,t in pairs(ast) do ast[i]= nil
                end
            end
        end
    end
end