GADInterstitial duplicates in view hierarchy - ios

Question

I have an implementation of GADInterstitial
class AdsManager {
let adsAppId = MY_ID
let fullScreenAdUnitId = MY_ID
static let manager: AdsManager = AdsManager()
private var interstitial: GADInterstitial!
private init () {
createAndLoadInterstitial()
}
func presentInterstitial(fromViewController viewController: UIViewController) {
if interstitial.isReady {
interstitial.present(fromRootViewController: viewController)
}
else {
print("Interstitial is not ready")
}
createAndLoadInterstitial()
}
private func createAndLoadInterstitial() {
//TODO: replace test ad unit id with production
interstitial = GADInterstitial(adUnitID: MY_ID)
interstitial.load(GADRequest())
}
}
and I show this ads like this:
func touchedButton(_ sender: UIButton) {
AdsManager.manager.presentInterstitial(fromViewController: self)
}
Everythink works and looks fine but when I was debugging I found something strange:
Four instances of the same view. Anyone know is it good? Or maybe I made a mistake in my AdsManager? Maybe Firebase implementation mistake?

Answer 1

The number of GADUIKitWebView's is dependent on the type of advertisement that is presented. A video, image, and text ad will all have different layouts. Based on the amount of memory being used I would assume it is correct.
View hierarchy of an interactive GADInterstitial advertisement:
Besides that, you do have a problem with your implementation. Your problem is in this function:
func presentInterstitial(fromViewController viewController: UIViewController) {
if interstitial.isReady {
interstitial.present(fromRootViewController: viewController)
}
else {
print("Interstitial is not ready")
}
createAndLoadInterstitial() // PROBLEM
}
You should move createAndLoadInterstitial() into the else so you only load another GADInterstitial when you actually need one. For example:
func presentInterstitial(fromViewController viewController: UIViewController) {
if interstitial.isReady {
interstitial.present(fromRootViewController: viewController)
}
else {
print("Interstitial is not ready")
createAndLoadInterstitial()
}
}
In addition to this you should implement the GADInterstitial delegate methods and load another GADInterstitial only after it has dismissed the screen. For example:
/// Called just after dismissing an interstitial and it has animated off the screen.
func interstitialDidDismissScreen(_ ad: GADInterstitial) {
print("interstitialDidDismissScreen")
createAndLoadInterstitial()
}