Spritekit Supporting iAd

Question

I have been looking everywhere on the web for tutorials on how to include iad banners in my spritekit game. For example I looked at this: Swift SpriteKit iAd but I got some errors, probaly due to the new swift 2 and swift 1. But could you explain what to do to include IAD in my spritekit game. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Make sure you have this code in your GameViewController. I just tested this out and it works for landscape and portrait mode.

 class GameViewController: UIViewController, ADBannerViewDelegate {

//--------------------
//-----iAd Banner-----
//--------------------
var SH = UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.height
let transition = SKTransition.fadeWithDuration(0)
var UIiAd: ADBannerView = ADBannerView()

override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
    let BV = UIiAd.bounds.height
    UIiAd.delegate = self
    UIiAd.frame = CGRectMake(0, SH + BV, 0, 0)
    self.view.addSubview(UIiAd)
}

override func viewWillDisappear(animated: Bool) {
    UIiAd.delegate = nil
    UIiAd.removeFromSuperview()
}

func bannerViewDidLoadAd(banner: ADBannerView!) {
    UIView.beginAnimations(nil, context: nil)
    UIView.setAnimationDuration(0.5) // Time it takes the animation to complete
    UIiAd.alpha = 1 // Fade in the animation
    UIView.commitAnimations()
}

func bannerView(banner: ADBannerView!, didFailToReceiveAdWithError error: NSError!) {
    UIView.beginAnimations(nil, context: nil)
    UIView.setAnimationDuration(0.5)
    UIiAd.alpha = 0
    UIView.commitAnimations()
}

func showBannerAd() {
    UIiAd.hidden = false
    let BV = UIiAd.bounds.height

    UIView.beginAnimations(nil, context: nil)
    UIView.setAnimationDuration(0.5) // Time it takes the animation to complete
    UIiAd.frame = CGRectMake(0, SH - BV, UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.width, 0)
    UIView.commitAnimations()
}

func hideBannerAd() {
    UIiAd.hidden = true
    let BV = UIiAd.bounds.height

    UIView.beginAnimations(nil, context: nil)
    UIView.setAnimationDuration(0.5) // Time it takes the animation to complete
    UIiAd.frame = CGRectMake(0, SH + BV, UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.width, 0) //Beginning position of the ad
    UIView.commitAnimations()
}



//--------------------
//-----View Loads-----
//--------------------
override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    //iAd Control
    self.UIiAd.hidden = true
    self.UIiAd.alpha = 0
    NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: #selector(GameViewController.hideBannerAd), name: "hideadsID", object: nil)
    NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: #selector(GameViewController.showBannerAd), name: "showadsID", object: nil)
}

Add the following outside your class declarations. It doesn't matter what class you go to, as long as it's global so you can access them from any game scene.

 //-------------
 //-----Ads-----
 //-------------
 func showAds() {
     NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().postNotificationName("showadsID", object: nil)
 }
 func hideAds() {
     NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().postNotificationName("hideadsID", object: nil)
 }

And then whenever you want to show ads in the specific scene or whenever, just call the "showAds()" function or "hideAds()" to hide them.