So far I haven’t gotten this plugin to work, it validates the license but when I make attempts to cache or display ads I get nothing coming back to the listener. When I run the github sample with my values I get fail events on cache and show ads, but validates fine as normal. Will try and look more into this tomorrow but I’ve been at it for an hour trying to figure what’s wrong.
Anyone else get this working?
You must also set up a campaign for your app at the Chartboost dashboard. Until you do this, along with some other required Chartboost portal settings you won’t receive ads.
I will edit this with a link to the guide I am talking about asap.
If you’ve set up a publishing campaign in your game via the Chartboost dashboard, you should be able to run your game from an IDE via a simulator or a device and see Chartboost ads appear where your code calls show interstitial. If you’re having trouble seeing ads on a device, try making it a test device: These ignore campaign logic and instead serve as many impressions as possible.
Link: https://help.chartboost.com/documentation/publishing
And helpful general link: https://help.chartboost.com/faq/integrations
I have the campaign running just like I did for Android using the SDK which works, but still not getting anything to work.
Update: I copied the widget based sample to my main, and I briefly got ads to show after multiple failed attempts, but then they stopped showing up.
Implementing the plugin into my code I only get the license event, and still no events for caching/showing ads
I tested on different releases, and now randomly get an invalid plugin license when I run the game
I’m really frustrated at this point
This all seems to be related to the server issues we are currently experiencing. Ironically, this is the first time in 3 years that we have ever had server issues. We are far more frustrated than you I assure you. This couldn’t have come at a worse time.
We are working on getting this issue with our server resolved asap. I would recommend working on other things whilst we get these issues resolved.
We are extremely sorry for the inconvenience.
I got to one point where the ads were being served, but it’s not doing that anymore.
Also if I don’t have a web connection (airplane mode), the licensing fails and this pops up 
How do I disable this from popping up ever in release? If there is any risk of this popping up when my app is live, I will not use this plugin.
You must set testMode = false for release apps.
In the case of no network connection, with testMode set to false, our plugins simply print a message to the terminal/console. No visual popup is shown.
Again, these ads not being shown issues are all down to the server issues we are currently suffering from.
I hope this one off problem won’t give you the wrong impression of us, especially seen as it was something out of our control.
We are adding a fourth server to act as a final safegaurd against this happening again.
Thanks
Wondering if anyone has gotten the Chartboost plugin to work.
I’ve implemented it but ads never show.
I’m pretty sure that I’ve setup the campaign and app correctly in the Chartboost dashboard, as I’ve got it working on one of my native apps, and therefore I’m familiar with the app/campaign setup process.
Here’s what I’ve noticed.
calling chartboost.init is working, and the listener gets called fine with the event.status == “valid”
calling chartboost.cache(<named_location>) may or may not be working, but the listener does not get called.
calling chartboost.show(“interstitial”, <named_location>) is not working, and the listener is not getting called.
my app still doesn’t have a green SDK lit up next to it, and analytics show 0.
in the Chartboost dashboard, I do see my three named_locations showing up in my linked campaign, so I know that my app is in some way communicating with Chartboost.
calling chartboost.config({interstitial={display=true}}) seemed to hang my app
Thanks for the detailed report.
Do you see any ads with test mode enabled?
We are happy to work with anyone who would like to get together and work with us on testing new releases, and also helping us track down issues.
We can do this via Skype, preferably IM. If you would like to get together on figuring out if this is a user issue, or a bug in our plugin, please add us on Skype.
Our handle is: Gremlin_Interactive.
We want to fix any issues, if they are issues with our plugin, so getting to work with someone to figure this out either way would be very helpful.
Thanks
I tried both testMode=true and testMode=false and didn’t get an ad.
I will add you on skype.
Sorry, i should have been more specific. To enable test ads with Chartboost, you must tick a box in your Chartboost developer portal, under the app settings page.
PS: look forward to chatting with you on Skype, thanks.
I have gotten ads to finally show but this plugin for a short bit, but then it stopped. I think a big problem is it doesn’t give detailed events on what is going on
First off, chartboostPlugin.cache() either will return nothing or it will return
Jun 12 19:33:59 ESP OnlyOne[3625] <Warning>: CB phase : failed
Jun 12 19:33:59 ESP OnlyOne[3625] <Warning>: CB type : interstitial
Jun 12 19:33:59 ESP OnlyOne[3625] <Warning>: CB name : chartboost
which is the same type of even if the .show(“interstitial”) fails
I’m not sure wether I should cache ads after every show or just at the start, but I think it’s just at the start
I find if you switch your app to testmode in chartboost adsettings on their website you’ll get sone consistent shows for a short while before it fails again. Now that being said when your not getting shows, you have no idea if it’s out of inventory or a connection problem or something else.
Some positive things here. I do appreciate the show, and close events, as I show my interstitials when the player hits the continue button so I restart the game on either a fail event or close interstitial event. But only when it’s working.
After restarting the app every odd time I no longer get events returning when I ask for ads, so my player is stuck jamming the play button because I haven’t received an event regarding the status of the ad being delivered.
Currently this plugin does not work on a consistent basis for me
@GreminInteractive
I purchased the plugin a few days ago, however I’m not at a stage in the development cycle where I’m implementing ads yet.
I’m planning to start this process some time next week. If there are any remaining issues then, I’ll help iron them out.
Thanks for that detatiled description, that helps a lot.
One of the problems is we are limited to returning values that chartboosts sdk provides.
Perhaps there are some other, more detailed return values that we can expose, that we might have missed in our first pass, to make this clearer.
With that been said, it does appear that the plugin is suffering from a few bugs.
You can be assured that we are going to work on this and get fixes out asap. If you look at our other plugins you can see our track record of delivering rapid fixes for any issues raised.
We are just going through a run of bad luck right now it seems!
If anyone has any more information, please keep it coming. We are looking into these issues, and will keep you all posted.
Note: please remember that we are located in Ireland (GMT + 0) and it’s 1.10am for us here. Just a reminder for any USA nationals so you know what times we work.
Given the time I am posting this, you are right to assume we work some crazy hours 
Thanks again
Excellent, we all know that you are the bug tracking master 
Thanks again everyone.
I would like to use chartboost with android.
Is that possible?
As previously stated, it is being worked on and will be released shortly.
it will be going into beta testing soon (no ETA)
Thanks
Even when I set my app to testmode on the chartboost dashboard, i see no ads.
Still not seeing any ads, but the Chartboost dashboard now finally shows the green SDK square that indicates that it recognizes that I implemented the SDK.
Dear Gremlin,
I ran into some problems while trying to get your chartboost plugin to work. My main problem is the plugin works very sporadically and unreliably.
Device logs are filled with the following error messages:
“Could not successfully update network info during initialization”
“denied file-read-data /privat/var/mobile/Applications/[guid]/library/caches/snapshots”
Other problems:
log1.txt search for “Jul 24 19:03:20”
A call to chartboost.show will generate willDisplay event only if the ad will be displayed.
When an app is started the ads show up fine for a while (see log1). After displaying a couple dozen ads things start to break.
After restarting a device access denied messages are plentiful in the logs (see log2)
MoreApps is not working. I tried switching back and forth between showing own my apps and filling from network, only to find that in some cases the moreapps window wouldn’t show at all or I would see my own apps when “fill from network” option was checked.
Below are my setup details:
I’ve got a solid internet connection/wifi and admob works flawlessly.
I’m using ipad retina for testing.
I have created an application inside chartboost UI and have a valid AppID and AppSignature
Application MoreApps is configured to use “Autofill with network advertising”
There are two publishing campaigns set up, one for interstitials and another for moreapps
I have added my ipad retina test device hashed mac address, ODIN-1
I verified the ODIN-1 hash is correct by referring to sample mac addresses provided in chartboost documentation along with their ODIN-1 hashes
Plugin VERSION: 1.2a
I understand that chartboost may not be able to provide a 100% fill rate . If a cache call is made and caching fails I need to know about it and fill from another network. When calling chartboost.show, if for some reason the call fails I need to know about it, too . Ideally immediately, the worst case ASAP within 4-5 seconds via an event listener. Failure notification is critical.
Attached is a test application I used to generate the log files and the log files themselves.
I would appreciate any help you could offer me.
Thank you!
I’m using the Chartboost plugin without issues.
Here are my thoughts:
1) “Could not successfully update network info during initialization”
I’ve seen this for other network access attempts as well. So far I haven’t seen that it causes any issues for Chartboost though.
This only happens at the start/resume of the app.
2) “denied file-read-data /privat/var/mobile/Applications/[guid]/library/caches/snapshots”
I haven’t seen this error myself.
1) After receiving a successful cached event a subsequent call to chartboost.show is not guaranteed to display an ad.
I’ve never seen this happen. However it may be due to how you cache. See my comment under (3) below.
2) A call to chartboost.show will generate willDisplay event only if the ad will be displayed.
This is the correct behavior as I see it.
3) When an app is started the ads show up fine for a while (see log1). After displaying a couple dozen ads things start to break.
It’s not breaking. This is normal behavior. There’s only a limited number of ads available for a device at any specific time. Once you’ve shown a few, the inventory will deplete and you’ll have to wait for new inventory to become available.
After every chartboost.show() you should call chartboost.cache() to get a new ad. You can have a simple boolean to keep track if an ad is cached. In the listener for cache() you set this variable to true when you get the “cached” event. Before you call show() check if an ad is cached by checking if the cache variable is true. Once you call show(), set the variable to false and call cache() again.
4) After restarting a device access denied messages are plentiful in the logs (see log2)
You do seem to be getting these very often. I don’t know why. I only get these at the start/resume of the app for a few seconds. Again it doesn’t affect Chartboost performance.
5) MoreApps is not working. I tried switching back and forth between showing own my apps and filling from network, only to find that in some cases the moreapps window wouldn’t show at all or I would see my own apps when “fill from network” option was checked.
Always works for me. However I do not use the “Fill from network” option. I only cross promote my own apps, but it never fails to show.
FWIW
I’m using all Apple hardware for network access. I used to have non-Apple routers (D-Link, Edimax and ipTime), and they gave me weird networking issues when used with any iDevice. After switching to an Apple TimeCapsule I’ve had no networking issues.