I don’t think you should remove chartboost.init(). Without it, how could Chartboost plugin knows the app id and signature key needed to communicate with the official Chartboost server?
You should just keep it there and assume the callback always return a valid license check.
But you DO need to recompile and re-submit your apps as suggested.
The question was about the license key, not chartboost.init() 
.
No license checking is done with the new plugin, which means the license key can safely be removed as it will be ignored. Actually I’d recommend removing it as it has no use and there’s no reason to have dead code lying around for no reason. The plugin will still dispatch a fake “license valid” event for backward compatibility, however I’d recommend that you remove the code that checks that as well. The plugin is fully functional without it.
Hi
Do you mean just commenting out the licenceKey like this and rebuild and resubmit?
[lua]
chartboost.init(
{
---------- licenseKey = “XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX”,
appID = yourAppID,
testMode = false,
appSignature = yourAppSignature,
listener = chartBoostListener,
–betaMode = true,
}
);
[/lua]
Thanks.
Mo
Also, do we really need this code in the init function
– Print the events key/pair values
for k,v in pairs( event ) do
print( k, “:”, v )
end
I will assume it is just for debuging purpose.
Mo
Thanks Naomi and ingemar for testing the plugin with chartboost and ios8 more or less works for now. I hope it will work for awhile until hopefully Chartboost can work on an Plugin for Corona.
Mo
@Mo
You don’t need the “for k,v” loop. As you said, it’s only for debugging.
…and the init looks like this nowadays:
chartboost.init { appID = "yourAppID", appSignature = "yourAppSignature", listener = chartboostListener }Well, I have to clean the old code with the new one.
I’d also like to know how long we can expect the Chartboost plugin to remain available by adding it in build.settings.
Meanwhile, I received an email from Chartboost, stating:
First, iOS 8 is coming soon, bringing along with it some major enhancements for iPhone and iPad. Unfortunately, a handful of older iOS devices won’t be compatible because of significant changes to its operating system. The name of the game is compatibility, which is why to avoid interruptions to Chartboost’s monetization services, you need to update to our latest SDK 5.0.
Does anyone know what this " handful of older iOS devices" mean?
As long as the current Chartboost plugin works fine with iOS 8, and the anticipated failures are only with “older iOS device”, I can totally live with it. After all, Corona does not support older devices that cannot update to iOS 7 – meaning, Corona apps won’t work on iPhone 1G, 3G, 3GS, iPod 1G, 2G, 3G, 4G, and iPad 1G anyway.
Naomi
Ah, one more thing.
If the current Chartboost plugin doesn’t work with iOS 8, that’s a concern – but only if it doesn’t silently fail.
I’m okay with Chartboost silently failing with iOS 8, because it should behave the same way as if Chartboost isn’t there at all. And if so, I don’t have to trouble myself with removing the plugin to accommodate iOS 8.
Has anyone had a chance to test Chartboost plugin with iOS 8?
Naomi
So, I tested my app on an iPad with iOS 8 beta 5, and Chartboost works great. No issue whatsoever.
Also, from what I understand, the version of Chartboost SDK that was used to build the current Chartboost plugin was a version of SDK immediately prior to version 5.0. (But this info needs to be verified & confirmed.)
Naomi
Thanks Naomi.
That will be a great news. Have you tested by downloading an app to see if you get the download to register (and the $)?
Thanks again.
Mo
Hey, Mo, I actually didn’t test that far. I’ll do that now and post back the result.
Please note, I don’t know how soon the download of another app via Chartboost gets registered on the dashboard. I’ll check the result later today or tomorrow.
Naomi
Hey, Ed from Chartboost here.
While we always recommend using the latest version of our SDK, the Gremlin plugin is using our 4.X SDK which will be remain supported for quite some time. In all our tests, the 4.X SDK is compatible with iOS 8 and you should have no problems releasing with the currently available plugin.
However if you want to use any of the new features in the 5.0 SDK, you may need to wait for Gremlin to update the plugin to use the new native SDKs.
Ed,
Guess you didn’t see that Gremlin killed their plugin and open sourced it? So now there’s the open source project from Chartboost that died on iOS a couple of Corona releases ago. And now we have the Gremlin open sourced project that isn’t written in Lua (so it can’t be used on lower versions) that will quickly become stale.
Can Chartboost please help? I seem to remember that Chartboost said they were going to have someone there actually working on the open source plugin but I have yet to see that happen.
This is really starting to get pathetic.
A quick note about the Chartboost plugin & iOS 8 beta 5 – it worked, and the download registered on dashboard without an issue.
@edzme, it would be really helpful if Chartboost will support the plugin made for Corona. I think there are and will be enough developers who’d add Chartboost ads only if the plugin is being supported and we can trust it to work.
Naomi
BTW, I also think it would be nice if Chartboost would actually hire Gremlin to continue supporting the plugin. This way, there will be no need for Gremlin to worry about licensing or piracy (which caused some really unfortunate issues.) Chartboost will make money when lots of Corona developers integrate Chartboost plugin and display Chartboost ads, while Gremlin gets paid for their effort.
That would be fair.
My two cents.
Naomi
Based on Gremlin, there are millions of devices each day starting up that use its Chartboost plugin. On top of that, I think there wasn’t enough time given for the plugin to reach all the potential developers (not including new Corona joiners everyday).
Besides, it takes some time for Corona developers to start integrating Charboost when they see fit. For example, I didn’t use Chartboost at all for the first year of my Corona subscription. Later I am developing a game and found Chartboost that seemed providing good quality of service, then I started to integrate Chartboost. Only when Chartboost performs well, I will continue to use it. And who knows if one of my future apps might get to App Store #1 which includes Chartboost too. I think everything is all “connected”. You can’t just judge if it’s going to make money or not simply from a short period of time of observation.
I really hope Chartboost can consider to support the plugin.
The Gremlin plugin uses Chartboost SDK 4.5.1
I’ve had issues with it on iOS 8 where landscape ads will show up in portrait orientation leaving the Close button off-screen so the user can’t close the ad. I contacted Chartboost last week about it, and they said it’s a known problem with 4.5.1.
The plugin must use version 5.0 for guaranteed iOS8 compatibility.
I have my own plugin and have updated it to support version 5.0 of their SDK.
Hey, Ingemar, that’s interesting to know.
My latest app that uses Chartboost plugin is a landscape app, and it doesn’t manifest the issue you describe with iOS 8 beta 5 at all.
Does your app work with both portrait and landscape? Mine works only with landscape. And I haven’t seen any issues whatsoever.
Naomi