Quick Start with Google Admob

This walkthrough shows how to show Google Admob's Native Ads in story format with Storyly in your iOS application.

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You can also check out the demo on GitHub

Storyly Demo for Swift

Storyly Demo for Objective-C

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Before you begin

This walkthrough contains sample instance information. However, if you want to work with your own content as well, please login into Storyly Dashboard and get your instance token.

The sample instance information for testing purposes;

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Also, you need to update required settings from Storyly Dashboard Ad Settings to enable Ads in the instance.

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Warning

Please check Google AdMob Mobile Ads SDK(iOS) Quick Start Guide for correct integration.

You need to create a Native Ad Unit Id or for testing purposes use Test Ads

Installation

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Warning

Storyly Monetization SDK targets iOS 10 or higher.

CocoaPods

Storyly Monetization SDK is available through CocoaPods. CocoaPods is a dependency manager for Cocoa projects. To integrate Storyly Monetization SDK into your Xcode project using CocoaPods, specify it in your Podfile:

use_frameworks!
pod 'StorylyMonetization'

Then run pod install.

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Warning

Please note that CocoaPods version should be 1.9+

Carthage

Storyly Monetization SDK is available through Carthage. To integrate Storyly Monetization SDK into your Xcode project using Carthage, specify it in your Cartfile:

binary "https://prod-storyly-media.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/storyly-monetization-sdk/Carthage/StorylyMonetization.json"
binary "https://prod-storyly-media.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/storyly-sdk/Carthage/Storyly.json"
binary "Carthage/GoogleMobileAds.json" == 8.7.0

Then run carthage update --use-xcframeworks.

After, add the frameworks to your Xcode project: Go to targets and select your application. Click plus button from the Frameworks, Libraries, and Embedded Content section and add StorylyMonetization.xcframework, Storyly.xcframework and GoogleMobileAds xcframeworks. If you can't find, add from Add Other > Add files dialog. Frameworks will be located at Carthage/Build/.

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Warning

Please note that a custom solution is required to support GoogleMobileAds with Carthage. This walkthrough's setup contains GoogleMobileAds.json file in Carthage folder with following content;

{
	"8.7.0": "https://dl.google.com/googleadmobadssdk/googlemobileadssdkios.zip"
}

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Warning

Please note that Carthage version should be 0.38+

Initialize StorylyAdProvider

You need to import related modules to use StorylyMonetization:

import StorylyMonetization

@import StorylyMonetization;

You need to set a StorylyAdProvider to your StorylyView instance to enable monetization feature.

self.storylyView.storylyAdViewProvider = StorylyMonetization.StorylyAdViewProvider(rootViewController: self,
                                                                    adMobAdUnitId: ADMOB_NATIVE_AD_ID)

Just hit the run. Now, you should be able to enjoy Storyly with ads 🎉!

Google AdMob Consent Management

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Before you begin

You may check Forward consent to the Google Mobile Ads SDK documentation for details.

StorylyAdViewProviders provides a parameter, named adMobAdExtras, in its constructor to pass additionalParameters to Google AdMob.