Reign Unity Plugins (Win8/WP8, BB10, iOS, Android, ect...)

Working fine now! Thanks!

I have one question about the interstitials, do I need to use "InterstitialAdManager.CreateAd" and "ad.Show" every time I want to show an ad? Or just CreateAd one time and ad.show() every time?
What I'm trying to do is show an Interstitial once every 2 plays, so I use CreateAd at the beginning of the scene and then at the end of the scene, if he did not see an ad last time, I use ad.show(). Now what happens is when I createAd and do now show it, the next time I try to show it crashes the app.

Using createAd and ad.show only when I want to show the ad seems to fix this, but also seems like it takes a little longer to get the add.

 

You only need to create the Ad ONCE via "InterstitialAdManager.CreateAd" and then can call ad.Show multiple times.

What platform is this happening on? Android, iOS or WP8?

 

@totsboy Ok looks like there was an async bug that doesn't happen on my device but probably yours, can you download and replace this "reignnative.jar" file and test? I think it should solve your issue as its working on my Android device. If so I will make update packages for others, thanks.

Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/pjojzf7g2snz9av/reignnative.jar

EDIT: Pushed the update out to the live updater.

 

Working fine now! thanks again for the quick support!

Apparently there's no way to "cache" a interstitial, right? I know chartboost does it, but I never worked with adMob before so I don't know if it's possible.

 

Awesome! Well yes there is a way to "cache" it. I can update the API to support that in a future release.

 

Awesome!

Is it normal for interstitial ads to appear cropped out like this on WP8?

 

@totsboy This looks like it may be a bug in the Ad framework itself for WP8: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/google-admob-ads-sdk/wp8/IbWEI_u1TTQ

Millennial Media have ads that work for WP7 not sure if it will work on WP8 but will do some tests later as I plan on adding support for that.

 

Pushed out an update to that plugin that may solve some WP8 Ad bugs some people were having.
Looks like the plugin may not have been compiled against the newest version of the MS Ads API.

Also separated out some APIs in Android and iOS so you can remove components you don't use.
For Android, I can fully remove the dependency on overriding the main unity activity, BUT that will force the system to create a new TEMP activity that handles events. ONLY con with this is GooglePlays IAP buy popup will be viewed against a black background vs overlaying your game screen. And selecting images will be a little slower.

But it seems people may not care about this if I was to add in Facebook support?

EDIT: Make sure you update to the newest WP8 Ads SDK: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8729

 

Unable to update here, this is the message I get:

(I did Revert before trying to upgrade)

 

I will try to reproduce and fix. Looks like a stream my not being closed right.
In the meantime, you can download the Bleeding edge packages instead.

 

Tried bleeding edge but it gave me an error while trying to import and only imported some of the scripts, now it won't build with these errors:

Edit: the error importing is:

 

If Unity can't even move your file then something is wrong and your file may be locked or hidden.
Can you manually delete the file and re-install the package.

Not sure how this would have happened.

 

That solves the issue when building for android, but when building for WP8 I'm getting an error similar to the one you get when you don't use "Set Platform > WP8"

 

Yes there was a WP8 Advertising SDK update you need to install that should fix this issue.
Download and update to v6.2.40325.0 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8729

 

That's the case even if I'm using admob instead of microsoft ads?

 

Yes because of the way Unity3D is doing linking I have little choice but to do it this way.
I've tried to make it so you could remove MSAds support, but it ends up causing more issues because Unity is using Mono.Cecil to resolve dependencies for some silly reason which causes so many issues.

Unity first compiles the scripts with Mono before it compiles with the MS-Compiler which makes little to no sense and forces hackery on my part as the .NET version are not compatible.

But it doesn't matter as it doesn't increase your app size as its just an external link, so it doesn't matter.

 

Facebook isn't the only library that uses the Main Activity. There are a lot of others, including some that do video ads, push notification, user tracking, etc.

Another IAP plugin, called OpenIAB, says that on Android it it uses a proxy activity, so that it won't use the Unity Main Activity, to make integration with other libraries easier. Would using a proxy activity be a possibility for the Reign plugins as well?

Here is the OpenIAB page that talks about the proxy activity:
https://github.com/onepf/OpenIAB/tree/master/unity_plugin

Thanks!
Jacob

 

I think it may be, for some reason I had thought it would not when looking at the docs. But looks like I may have been wrong. I will apply this to the plugin if it works very soon if thats the case.

Thanks.

 

Ok, building fine now after upgrading microsoft ads sdk, but the interstitial ads are still cropped on WP8 (testing on lumia 520). Does it appear normal on your devices?

 

Yes this appears to be a bug in the native SDK. Waiting for an update from google and then this should be fixed after version 6.5.11.

Google Forums Link

 

There is a major security flaw with the Google Play IAP plugin. Currently, about 40% of our successful transactions are fake purchases.

Players are exploiting a Google spoof and buying up an unlimited amount of currency. This is causing a major headache for us because we are trusting the plugin's success results.

No other platform is experiencing this issue and we are also using the Amazon, BB10, and iOS versions.

 

Looks like there is an app that can fake the IAP system on the local device.
I think it is just saving purchases in the local cache probably.
http://andro24world.blogspot.com/2014/01/freedom-v102-google-play-in-app.html
http://kickass.to/freedom-1-0-6-free-in-app-purchases-android-root-t8993360.html

I wonder if there is a work-around to stop this. Did you see anything that may be of use after looking into it?

 

After looking at the code further, it looks like there may be a bug in the code that is not verifying the purchase with your base key.
I will get back to you on this and get a fix out if this turns out to be the case.

 

I know there is an IA system, which provides a php file so that you can set up your own 3rd party verification of purchases. It's called Simple IA System. It doesn't currently support Reign plug in directly, but I was thinking to ask them if they could add support for them.

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/194975-Simple-IAP-System-(SIS)

 

I could also add 3rd party verification that could be used via PHP or ASP.NET. But the service file would have to be located on your own server for verification. But after I push the fix for testing the purchase with your base key, the issue for the most part should go away I think. Unless that IAP hack app is doing more special magic or something.

 

Actually there are quite a few fake purchases coming from iOS as well.

 

Will look into this and make sure security measures are being taken in the API, thanks for the info. If there are no security bugs in the API, I will add in remote server side checking tools.

I should have more information about this tomorrow.

 

Getting an error after a successfull purchase callback.
The problem is that it does not remove the ad banner as it is supposed to, the banner just sits there forever, doesn't even refresh anymore.
When I open the game again again the banner no longer shows, meaning the purchase did actually work.

Here's the error:




edit: seems like i was destroying the banner and creating again every time instead of making it visible/invisible. It's working now, but the error still shows on log!

 

Thanks i'll take a look. Should be out with an update this weekend for several different items.

 

Hi zezba9000,

I've purchased the Mobile Plugin yesterday, and I'm trying to put an ad banner on my Windows Phone 8 game. I've follow the documentation.
When I am on Unity and launch the scene I see the GUI banner but when I build and run on my Windows Phone (Master, ARM) with VS Express 2012 Windows Phone, the banner doesn't show up on my game. I don't have any error on the console.

Here is my code related to the banner, I'm using Admob:

HELP! please ^^

EDIT: I've test it using the Emulator, still no banner.

 

Hi zezba9000,

Any chance you could add a WebView capability to the API at some point in the future?

Thanks!
Jacob

 

Hi SillyCat,

This is because you need to set "WP8_AdAPI = AdAPIs.AdMob".
It defaults to None. Take a look at "AdsDemo.cs"

 

Yes I can do that on supported platforms. Will never be able to work on BB10 though because Unity can't use Cascades, but would on Win8/WP8, iOS Android.

 

Thanks, I haven't seen that line.

So, here is my code now:

It still doesn't show the test banner on Emulator or on Device.
I lose some fps when the ad is called but no banner appears. :'

 

Your AdMob UnitID is wrong and should have "ca-app-pub-" in front of it.
Also its not a good idea to post your IDs so others can misuse them.

 

@EnigmaCEO Ok an update was just pushed out that ads extra "Receipt Validation" security to both Android GooglePlay Store and iOS Apple Store.

Other fixes:
1) "OK MessageBox" no longer throws an exception in some cases on Android.

2) Win8-WP8 Scoreoid Leaderboard and Achievement support. (Works on all other platforms too, but native score APIs for those platforms are coming too).

3) Interstitial Ads now support Ad Caching. NOTE: You must now call "Cache" and then call "Show" after the even fires. Look at the demo for more info.

4) Ads now have a "Refresh" method for manually telling the Ad to refresh. NOTE: BB10 Ads and iOS iAd do not support this.

5) Receipt Validation for GooglePlay and iOS stores.

Let me know if there are any issues with the update.
Get updates via "Edit->Reign->Check for updates" or download Bleeding edge packages.

 

Awesome! Mobile Unified just gets better and better. Any idea when you'd be able to add it?

Thanks!
Jacob

 

The plan is to have native leaderboards for each platform next. Then add tackle that feature and others.

 

Hi zebza9000,
first of all, congrats for this very awesome plugin.
I'm trying to create a very simple casual game for Windows Metro.
On Start() of the Game scene I istantiated the Ad correctly and everything is working good with Microsoft pubCenter Ads.
The issue come up when a player dies and restart the scene (I simply do an Application.Load("Game") ) when the ad shows no more and i get the message:
"you must wait for the last ad finish being created" in the development console.
Can you help me?

THank you very much.

 

Ok you should be able to pull, there were duplicate files listed on the server update script.

 

I'm guessing you are trying to destroy Ads to hide them? You should be using "ad.Visible = true/false" to show and hide Ads. If you wish to create more then one ad its recommended you pass in a array of "AdDesc" objects into the create ad method.

 

Thank you very much for support!
I stopped to dispose Ad and used Visible property and everything is going good.

 

Also to get rid of any confusion with interstitial ads. You MUST call "ad.Cache" before "ad.Show" now. Take a look at the interstitial ads demo cs file.

 

All working now!
And thanks for the cache feature, works really well

 

Code docs have now been added to the Reign web-site: http://reign-studios.net/CodeDocs/index.html

 

I have a question,
do you plan to integrate adduplex in the next releases?

Thank you for info

 

Yes Adduplex is planned to be added into the plugin.

 

Is there a way to check if the ad is cached? Apparently I'm getting a crash when I try to show the add and it is still not in cache, even after calling ad.Cache();

 

Yes there is a even callback that gets fired after the Ad is cached. Look the updated "InterstitialAdDemo.cs" code file.

Code (csharp):

1.     private void eventCallback(InterstitialAdEvents adEvent, string eventMessage)
2.     {
3.         Debug.Log(adEvent);
4.         if (adEvent == InterstitialAdEvents.Error) Debug.LogError(eventMessage);
5.         if (adEvent == InterstitialAdEvents.Cached) ad.Show();
6.     }