I'm adding my bannerView inside a collectionView header. It won't let me set the bannerView.rootViewController
as self to the headerView because it's not a UIViewController.
I can always implement the required properties inside the viewController that has the collectionView but then how do I load the bannerView?
class HeaderView: UICollectionReusableView {
var bannerView: GADBannerView = {
let view = GADBannerView()
view.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
return view
}()
override init(frame: CGRect) {
super.init(frame: frame)
backgroundColor = .white
bannerView = GADBannerView(adSize: kGADAdSizeSmartBannerPortrait)
bannerView.adUnitID = "ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/2934735716"
bannerView.rootViewController = self
bannerView.load(GADRequest())
}
}
class that contains the collectionView:
class MainViewController: UIViewController {
var collectionView: UICollectionView!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// ... instantiate the collectionView
}
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, viewForSupplementaryElementOfKind kind: String, at indexPath: IndexPath) -> UICollectionReusableView {
let headerView = collectionView.dequeueReusableSupplementaryView(ofKind: kind, withReuseIdentifier: "headerView", for: indexPath) as! HeaderView
return headerView
}
}
Inside the headerView
I added a PassthroughView and inside cellForItem
I added the bannerView as subView to the PassthroughView. It works fine
import GoogleMobileAds
class HeaderView: UICollectionReusableView {
var passthroughView: PassthroughView = {
let view = PassthroughView()
view.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
view.isUserInteractionEnabled = true
}()
override init(frame: CGRect) {
super.init(frame: frame)
backgroundColor = .white
// anchors for passthroughView ...
}
func addBannerViewToPassthroughView(_ bannerView: GADBannerView) {
if !bannerView.isDescendant(of: passthroughView) {
passthroughView.addSubview(bannerView)
}
}
}
The class that contains the collectionView and serves the ads are in the main vc and NOT the cell so I don't have to worry about the cell recycling itself and constantly serving ads as it's scrolled:
class MainViewController: UIViewController {
var collectionView: UICollectionView!
var bannerView: GADBannerView!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// ... instantiate the collectionView
bannerView = GADBannerView(adSize: kGADAdSizeSmartBannerPortrait)
bannerView.adUnitID = "ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/2934735716"
bannerView.rootViewController = self
bannerView.delegate = self
bannerView.load(GADRequest())
}
func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, viewForSupplementaryElementOfKind kind: String, at indexPath: IndexPath) -> UICollectionReusableView {
let headerView = collectionView.dequeueReusableSupplementaryView(ofKind: kind, withReuseIdentifier: "headerView", for: indexPath) as! HeaderView
// for some strange reason adding the bannerView as a subView to the passthroughView inconsistently froze my app (sometimes it did and sometimes it didn't). Once I added it on the mainQueue everything worked fine
DispatchQueue.main.async { [weak self] in
if let bannerView = self?.bannerView {
headerView.addBannerViewToPassthroughView(bannerView)
}
}
return headerView
}
}
Follow this answer for more info on how the bannerView knows when it is and isn't on screen.