Creating GADNativeAdView programmatically

[Hermawan Winata]

Hi Google Mobile Ads team,

I want to follow up on https://groups.google.com/g/google-admob-ads-sdk/c/NHXtdtUU3A8/m/-DMKLcORJAAJ.

I have created a repository to test creating the GADNativeAdView programmatically  https://github.com/shinwan2/iOSGoogleAdsClient. Is it okay to create the layout programmatically?

Because both https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/mobile-ads-sdk/ios/native/advanced and https://github.com/googleads/googleads-mobile-ios-examples/releases/tag/7.22 only mention about using Interface Builder.

Thank you.

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hi Hermawan,

Thank you for reaching out to us.

With regard to your concern, you are able to build Native ad views without Storyboard or .xibs. However, in the code you need to set the values back to the superclass GADNativeAdView. 

For example, you've created a custom `actionButton` in your subclass. However, no clicks are being recorded because you have not set that value back to the superclass. You need to do something such as "storeView = actionButton" storeView coming from the GADNativeAdView. You'll need to do that with all of your respective values that are supposed to represented in your native ad view. 

Regards,

Mobile Ads SDK Team

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[Hermawan Winata]

Hi Google Mobile Ads team,

Thank you for the confirmation. I did actually set them (except the optional `imageView`). Kindly take a look here https://github.com/shinwan2/iOSGoogleAdsClient/blob/764ac16b17112db0e7d9c5d60061e6b6737b1877/NativeAdvancedExample/NativeAdViewProg.swift#L205-L213 if that's what you mean.

Thank you.

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hello Hermawan,

Thank you for the clarification.

If you encounter any issues with this, feel free to reach back to us for further assistance.