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iOS -How to Add GADBannerView to UICollectionReusableView


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.

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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
    }
}

Solution

  • 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.