Correct way to show iAd Banner View at the bottom of the screen

Question

I want to show iAd Banner View at the bottom of the screen. Also I want to hide it before the first bannerViewDidLoadAd and after bannerView:didFailToReceiveAdWithError methods calls and restore it after any further bannerViewDidLoadAd method calls. What is the correct way to achieve such behavior?

This is what I've tried:

• Add iAd Banner View to the view controller via interface builder in XCode and choose view contoller as the delegate of this view

• Add the following functions to the view contoller's implementation -- https://gist.github.com/ellneal/1082499

• Add the calls to this methods to the bannerViewDidLoadAd and bannerView:didFailToReceiveAdWithError:

  - (void)bannerViewDidLoadAd:(ADBannerView *)banner
  {
      [self showBannerView:banner animated:YES];
  }
  
  - (void)bannerView:(ADBannerView *)banner didFailToReceiveAdWithError:(NSError *)error
  {
      [self hideBannerView:banner animated:YES];
  }
  

In this case I see a blank screen instead of ad before bannerViewDidLoadAd method was called and the iAd Banner View doesn't appear again when the connection established again (I think that it's because of removeFromSuperview method call). How can I fix it? Maybe there is a more correct way to achieve such behavior?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If possible, you should consider using setCanDisplayAds: on your view controller. See Apple's documentation.

Import iAd and set the property on your root view controller, or on the content view controller you wish to display ads at the bottom of.