Inneractive on Android/Amazon Not Working Properly (CRITICAL)

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#1

Inneractive is not working properly on Android on at least some devices. Black bars randomly appear and obscure portions of the screen, even if an ad is not displayed on the screen.

Amazon is currently rejecting my games for this reason. I’ve resubmitted with AdMob alone to push things through for now, but this needs to be addressed as AdMob alone is not enough.

I’ve been able to repeat the problem on my HP Touchpad. Amazon used the HTC Sensation 4G. [import]uid: 36054 topic_id: 21180 reply_id: 321180[/import]

#2

The black background surrounding the banner ad is by design. This is the way the inneractive library for Android renders it and there is currently no way to remove the black background on Ansca’s end. The inneractive ad banner was designed to be docked to, say, the top of the screen, in which case it would look fine… at least for a portrait app. Although I do understand that for a landscape app this would not look good, in which case, another approach might be to dock the banner ad to the top-right corner of the screen by setting the x coordinate to (display.contentWidth/2). On Android, the banner will automatically center itself within the content bounds. Another method is to “letterbox” your app and place the ad banner outside of the content bounds so that the black background mixes with the letter box bars nicely.

We have submitted feature requests to inneractive to change certain things. Particularly to better match the iOS behavior. I’ve found that inneractive is pretty easy to work with, so hopefully with some changes on their end and on our end, we should be able to provide a better solution in the future. In the meantime, this is just how it works and solutions I documented above are the best that I can offer. [import]uid: 32256 topic_id: 21180 reply_id: 83893[/import]

#3

Thank you for the answer. Unfortunately this is a no go for me right now as I’ve specifically designed my game to display ads in the bottom center. I would have to move the entire UI around to fit this in. Matching the iOS behavior is the right move to make, I hope inneractive gets it done quickly.

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#4

Perhaps the following forum thread might help. It is currently 4 pages long and might offer some better suggestions.
http://developer.anscamobile.com/forum/2012/01/05/welcome-inneractive
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#5

Just to let you know, inneractive has changed their Android ads to match the way they look on iOS. That is, the black background/bars are gone and the ads are now left justified instead of centered on screen. This change was made on inneractive’s servers, so no changes to Corona were required. That means this change will take affect on the release version of Corona, build 704.

So if you like, please give inneractive another go. It sounds like they made all of the changes that you require. [import]uid: 32256 topic_id: 21180 reply_id: 89943[/import]