Introduction
The Google AdMob Ads SDK allows developers to easily incorporate mobile-friendly text and image banners as well as rich, full-screen web apps known as interstitials. An ever-growing set of "calls-to-action" are supported in response to user touch including direct access to the App Store, Android Market and Windows Phone 7 Marketplace, iTunes, maps, video and the dialer. Ads can be targeted by location and demographic data. The Google AdMob Ads SDK can be used by the following publishers:
-
AdMob publishers
- Access the Google AdMob network to easily monetize your application. DoubleClick For Publishers (DFP) users
- Leverage DFP to traffic, target and serve directly-sold ads. For upgraded DFP ( www.google.com/dfp) users, select Android or iOS. AdSense publishers
- Monetize your search results pages with Google search ads.
Follow the instructions below to incorporate the Google AdMob Ads SDK into your development environment. To begin, select the tab corresponding to your particular platform.
Requirements
- iOS version
4.3
or later - Xcode
4.5
or later
Warning: All new iPad and iPhone apps created after October 14, 2011 will require an AdMob SDK that was released on or after March 15, 2011. This corresponds to version 4.0.2+ for iOS. If you downloaded the library from our official download site, then you're already set. Otherwise you may have an old version of the AdMob SDK that was released prior to March 15, 2011, and your new app will not receive any ad impressions until you update your SDK.
Incorporating the SDK
For the rest of these instructions, the project shown will be named BannerExample. When going through the exercises, simply replace BannerExample with your project's name.
The decompressed SDK consists of Objective-C headers, a runtime library and a README.
1. Right-click on your project in Xcode, choose Add Files to "BannerExample"...
2. Add everything except the add-ons folder unless you need something from there. The add-ons folder includes headers for DFP and mediation, as well as the Analytics library. Even if you are adding these in, do not add any other Xcode projects into your project.
3. The SDK library references four iOS development frameworks which may not already be part of your project:
- StoreKit
- AudioToolbox
- MessageUI
- SystemConfiguration
- CoreGraphics
- AdSupport
4. You now need to add -ObjC
to the Other Linker Flags of your application target's build setting:
- In Xcode's project navigator, press the blue top-level project icon.
- Click on your target, then the Build Settings tab.
- Under Other Linker Flags, add
-ObjC
to both Debug and Release.
You should now be able to rebuild your project without any errors.