Admob Native Advanced Not Clickable - ios

Question

I have created a custom View Class that inherits from GADNativeContentAdView Class. When I receive an advertisement and the delegate is called, I fill my custom view with the data as shown below.
Everything looks fine but the problem is that it is not clickable at all. I tried to set the actionbutton userinteraction to false, but still won't work.
I also tried to register using following:
-(void)registerAdView:(UIView *)adView
clickableAssetViews:(NSDictionary *)clickableAssetViews
nonclickableAssetViews:
(NSDictionary *)nonclickableAssetViews;
Any idea how to get it to work?
- (void)setNativeContent:(GADNativeContentAd *)nativeContent
{
self.nativeContentAd = nativeContent;
headlineLabel.text = nativeContent.headline;
bodyLabel.text = nativeContent.body;
advertiserImage.image = ((GADNativeAdImage *)nativeContent.images.firstObject).image;
[actionButton setTitle:nativeContent.callToAction forState:UIControlStateNormal];
if (nativeContent.logo && nativeContent.logo.image)
{
advertiserLogo.image = nativeContent.logo.image;
}
else
{
advertiserLogo.image = advertiserImage.image;
}
NSDictionary *clickableArea = #{GADNativeContentHeadlineAsset:headlineLabel, GADNativeContentImageAsset:advertiserImage, GADNativeContentCallToActionAsset:actionButton};
NSDictionary *nonClickableArea = #{GADNativeContentBodyAsset:bodyLabel};
[nativeContent registerAdView:self clickableAssetViews:clickableArea nonclickableAssetViews:nonClickableArea];
}

Answer 1

I finally figured out a way to make the entire native ad clickable without using a .xib. I subclassed GADNativeContentAdView and created a tappableOverlay view that I assigned to an unused asset view in its superclass. In this case, it was the callToActionView. Then I used the not-so-documented GADNativeContentAd.registerAdView() method:
- (void)registerAdView:(UIView *)adView
clickableAssetViews:(NSDictionary<GADNativeContentAdAssetID, UIView *> *)clickableAssetViews
nonclickableAssetViews: (NSDictionary<GADNativeContentAdAssetID, UIView *> *)nonclickableAssetViews;
Here's a Swift 4 example:
class NativeContentAdView: GADNativeContentAdView {
var nativeAdAssets: NativeAdAssets?
private let myImageView: UIImageView = {
let myImageView = UIImageView()
myImageView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
myImageView.contentMode = .scaleAspectFill
myImageView.clipsToBounds = true
return myImageView
}()
private let myHeadlineView: UILabel = {
let myHeadlineView = UILabel()
myHeadlineView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
myHeadlineView.numberOfLines = 0
myHeadlineView.textColor = .black
return myHeadlineView
}()
private let tappableOverlay: UIView = {
let tappableOverlay = UIView()
tappableOverlay.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
tappableOverlay.isUserInteractionEnabled = true
return tappableOverlay
}()
private let adAttribution: UILabel = {
let adAttribution = UILabel()
adAttribution.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
adAttribution.text = "Ad"
adAttribution.textColor = .white
adAttribution.textAlignment = .center
adAttribution.backgroundColor = UIColor(red: 1, green: 0.8, blue: 0.4, alpha: 1)
adAttribution.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 11, weight: UIFont.Weight.semibold)
return adAttribution
}()
override var nativeContentAd: GADNativeContentAd? {
didSet {
if let nativeContentAd = nativeContentAd, let callToActionView = callToActionView {
nativeContentAd.register(self,
clickableAssetViews: [GADNativeContentAdAssetID.callToActionAsset: callToActionView],
nonclickableAssetViews: [:])
}
}
}
init() {
super.init(frame: CGRect.zero)
translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
backgroundColor = .white
isUserInteractionEnabled = true
callToActionView = tappableOverlay
headlineView = myHeadlineView
imageView = myImageView
}
required public init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
}
override func didMoveToSuperview() {
super.didMoveToSuperview()
addSubview(myHeadlineView)
addSubview(myImageView)
addSubview(adAttribution)
addSubview(tappableOverlay)
}
// override func updateConstraints() {
// ....
// }
}
Just be sure to pin the tappableOverlay to its superview edges so that they're the same size...in updateConstraints().

Answer 2

Inside the method simply you can create and place Ad in view hierarchy.
GADNativeContentAdView *contentAdView = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:#"NativeAdView" owner:nil options:nil].firstObject;
After assigning the properties, associate the content Ad view with the content ad object. This is required to make the ad clickable.
contentAdView.nativeContentAd = nativeContentAd;

Answer 3

Only AdMob whitelisted publishers can use the registerAdView API :)
All publishers can use xib to create an ad view.

Answer 4

Don't forget to link custom GADUnifiedNativeAdView outlets to your UILabels, UIButtons and ImageViews, so GADUnifiedNativeAdView will know what to interact with

Answer 5

In my case it was cause I created my views without xib.
In this case just set mediaView property to your GADNativeAdView
here the minimum working code
final class EndBannerController: UIViewController {
private let adId: String
private let adView = GADNativeAdView()
private let mediaView = GADMediaView()
private var adLoader: GADAdLoader?
init(adId: String) {
self.adId = adId
super.init(nibName: nil, bundle: nil)
}
required init?(coder: NSCoder) { return nil }
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
adView.frame = view.bounds
view.addSubview(adView)
mediaView.frame = view.bounds
adView.mediaView = mediaView
adView.addSubview(mediaView)
let loader = GADAdLoader(
adUnitID: adId,
rootViewController: self,
adTypes: [.native],
options: nil
)
loader.delegate = self
self.adLoader = loader
}
override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
super.viewDidAppear(animated)
self.loadBannerAd()
}
override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()
adView.frame = view.bounds
mediaView.frame = view.bounds
}
private func loadBannerAd() {
let request = GADRequest()
request.scene = view.window?.windowScene
self.adLoader?.load(request)
}
}