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iOS Development: Adding Greystripe ads to my app via AdWhirl is causing a crash

One of my free apps is making enough ad requests to cause really low fill rates, so I decided to add another ad network alongside iAd and Admob to my app. With AdWhirl, this is a very easy process. You drop the Greystripe SDK folder into XCode and enable the Greystripe adapter in the AdWhirl code. That's it! Unfortunately, it's crashing :)

The Greystripe ad banner loads fine, but as soon as it tries to dealloc, it crashes in the following code in the AdWhirlAdapterGreystrip.m file...

- (void)dealloc {
  [innerContainer release];   //<--Crash here
  [outerContainer release];
  [super dealloc];
}

I don't know the AdWhirl SDK code at all and, before I dive into it, I was hoping someone else has seen this or can give me some ideas of where to look.

Thanks so much for your wisdom!

Solution

  • The current release version of our adapter has a bug in the new stopBeingDelegate method, which as Bastian says, results in a bad release.

    To solve this just comment out:

    [GSAdView adViewForSlotNamed:kGSBannerSlotName delegate:nil];

    from the stopBeingDelegate method in AdWhirlAdapterGreystripe.m

    This is also reported in google code. If you have a chance please "star" this issue, so AdWhirl will merge this fix into the release.

    Full disclosure: I work for Greystripe ;)