[Bug] The interstitial ad shows the status bar

[Taro Yamada]

When the app's info.plist has the `UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance` key which value is `NO` and you show a interstitial Ad using the `-presentFromRootViewController:` method of the `GADInterstitial` class,
the status bar is appeared and it hide the close button.

This is a Screen shot of my iPhone 4S.
http://i.imgur.com/G0vZBS6.jpg

I changed the key value to `YES` and currently I am modifying my code due to the bug.

Please fix this bug.
Don't force me to change the code which is unrelated to ads.

[Eric Leichtenschlag]

Which version of the SDK are you using? From the release notes, we added a fix to hide the status bar for interstitials on iOS 7 in SDK version 6.5.1.

Thanks,

Eric

[Benjamin Roth]

This happens until most recent version 6.11

I have the same issue and also posted a bug: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/google-admob-ads-sdk/Crash$20in$20IOS$20SDK/google-admob-ads-sdk/9aLFVxDWfxc/f2f7mQg0afsJ

It is really annoying that this Bug persists so long. Come on, you are GOOGLE! If you don't kick the shit, who else does?

I also tried to "code around" that bug but it is not possible without impact on the apps responsiveness.

Thanks,

Benjamin

[Eric Leichtenschlag]

I'm unable to reproduce locally. Can you send over a copy of the interstitial example that exhibits the problem?

Thanks,
Eric

[Benjamin Roth]

What do you want exactly? A screenshot? Or code? Unfortunately the app is quite complex. I can reproduce it every time an interstitial appears.

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[Eric Leichtenschlag]

I attached an example I'm testing with where I can't reproduce the issue. Can you break this example and send it back?

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[Benjamin Roth]

In monday :) thanks so far!

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[Eric Leichtenschlag]

I was actually able to reproduce this issue running Xcode 6 beta, and an iOS 7.0 simulator, and only that combination (Xcode 5/iOS 7.0 or Xcode6/iOS7.1 didn't exhibit the issue). After some debugging, it looks like the OS never called prefersStatusBarHidden when the view controller is shown, so the SDK never got a chance to return yes. I don't have a 7.0 device on hand to see if it happened on device. From the information I have, it looks like an Xcode 6 beta bug or 7.0 simulator issue.

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[Benjamin Roth]

Hmmm. I have also have this with xcode5 and an ios 7.1 device.

As you mention "prefersStatusBarHidden ": I have an idea but i have to test first. We call the interstitial not from the root VC. We have a slide menu (PKRevealController) and so the interstitial is called from a child VC initialized with this child VC as root VC.

I will test it - but not today - and will let you know!

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[Benjamin Roth]

Hi Eric,

Thanks for your efforts.

I tested and tried and what came out is that it does not work with UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance disabled.

I gave it yet another try to get rid of this setting and finally succeeded, however this automagic IOS stuff is kinda obscure!

What i can say now is: It now works for me but the error with "UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance" turned off still persists. Btw. in this case IOS does not ask VCs for "prefersStatusBarHidden".

Thanks anyway!

Benjamin

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[Eric Leichtenschlag]

Cool, glad you figured it out!