Show ad banner by touching a button - ios

Question

Explanation
The title pretty much asks for itself. I'm trying to make a button activate an ad banner, but Xcode returns me this message below; so, because of the UIViewController, I saw that this banner should be called on GameViewController, not GameScene. I looked for it everywhere, but did not find how to call this banner from GameScene or another way to activate this banner by a button.
Cannot convert value of type 'GameScene' to expected argument type 'UIViewController!'
Code
This code below is pretty simple. It has a button on its attempt to call an ad banner.
import SpriteKit
import Ads
class GameScene: SKScene {
var button = SKSpriteNode()
override func didMoveToView(view: SKView) {
/* Setup your scene here */
button = SKSpriteNode(imageNamed: "button")
button.position = CGPoint(x: self.frame.width / 2, y: self.frame.height / 2)
button.setScale(0.4)
addChild(button)
}
override func touchesBegan(touches: Set<UITouch>, withEvent event: UIEvent?) {
/* Called when a touch begins */
for touch in touches {
let location = touch.locationInNode(self)
let node = nodeAtPoint(location)
if node == button{
Ads.showAd(AdsShowStyle.BannerBottom, rootViewController: self) //issue line
}
}
}
}
Attempt
After some research, I found out that it might be possible by using delegation. Following the highest voted answer of this question, I came up to this code below, but I'm having many issues that I'm, unsuccessfully, struggling to solve.
GameScene.swift
GameViewController.swift
Thanks in advance,
Luiz.

Answer 1

Since you are using SpriteKit but we don't know what ad network you are using, I would recommend using a NSNotificationCenter command in GameViewController and use a postNotificationName command in the GameScene.swift instead of a ViewControllerDelegate. This would allow your ad code to be used in any other .swift files. Here's a better explanation of this from another post if needed
Note: This may or may not work depending on ad network
GameViewController.swift (from my project)
import UIKit
import SpriteKit
import GoogleMobileAds
class GameViewController: UIViewController, GADAdDelegate {
var adMobBanner : GADBannerView!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
if let scene = GameScene(fileNamed:"GameScene") {
// Configure the view.
let skView = self.view as! SKView
skView.showsFPS = true
skView.showsNodeCount = true
/* Sprite Kit applies additional optimizations to improve rendering performance */
skView.ignoresSiblingOrder = true
/* Set the scale mode to scale to fit the window */
scene.scaleMode = .AspectFill
skView.presentScene(scene)
}
adMobBanner = GADBannerView(adSize: kGADAdSizeSmartBannerPortrait)
adMobBanner.adUnitID = "your ad unit id"
adMobBanner.rootViewController = self
adMobBanner.frame = CGRectMake(0, view.bounds.height - adMobBanner.frame.size.height, adMobBanner.frame.size.width, adMobBanner.frame.size.height)
NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().addObserver(self, selector: #selector(GameViewController.showAdMob), name: "showAdMobKey", object: nil)
}
func showAdMob() {
let request : GADRequest = GADRequest()
adMobBanner.loadRequest(request)
self.view.addSubview(adMobBanner)
print("adMob")
}
GameScene.swift (edited yours)
import SpriteKit
import Ads
class GameScene: SKScene {
var button = SKSpriteNode()
override func didMoveToView(view: SKView) {
/* Setup your scene here */
button = SKSpriteNode(imageNamed: "button")
button.position = CGPoint(x: self.frame.width / 2, y: self.frame.height / 2)
button.setScale(0.4)
addChild(button)
}
override func touchesBegan(touches: Set<UITouch>, withEvent event: UIEvent?) {
/* Called when a touch begins */
for touch in touches {
let location = touch.locationInNode(self)
if (button.containsPoint(location)) {
NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter().postNotificationName("showAdMobKey", object: nil)
}
}
}
}