Google Mobile Ads sdk In-app browser

[Nada Gamal]

Hi,

I need to integrate In-app browser with my app , so when the user touch the Ad , the ad open on the internal browser . Does Google Mobile Ads support this ?

Thank you 

Nada Gamal

[Veer Arjun Busani(Mobile Ads SDK Team)]

Hi Nada,

If you want open the clickthrough in an In-App Browser, you would have to use MRAID serving ads through DFP. You can do so using the open() method, which would open any HTML content within the embedded browser. You can also look at the specs to get more details on how this is done.

Thanks,

Veer Busani
Mobile Ads SDK Team

[Tarique Ahmad]

ok
I will try for it.

Regard
Tarique Ahmad

[Gareth Jones]

Hi Arjun

It's mind-boggling to me how a company the size of Google can have documentation for its products that is misleading, inaccurate or completely false. It would actually be better to have no documentation at all than much of the documentation that you have for your SDKs because at least then engineers wouldn't be sent in the wrong direction by what they wrongfully perceive to be a trustworthy source.

And if the documentation was actually fit for purpose then your team could spend far less time answering questions on these forums. I'm amazed by the whole situation to be honest with you.

So anyway, back to the problem at hand. 

Our client also wants their ads to open in-app but with the latest version of the SDK this doesn't seem to be possible - even though your documentation clearly states that if we want to open ads in-app then all we need to do is ensure that the rootViewController is set to be the app's root view controller.

I've downloaded your example apps which are all written in this way and sure enough, they don't open their ads in-app either - again, despite being written in exactly the same way that your documentation says is required.

The iOS SDK change history shows the following:

6.10.0

2014‑07‑17

Ads now default to opening in Safari instead of the in-app browser. The creative can override this behavior by specifying mraid.expand() or admob.opener.openOverlay().

Given that it is native behaviour that changed here (i.e. the native SDK), why couldn't you provide a native override? Why is the override relegated to the creative?

Our client isn't using MRAID ads. So are you saying that in order for their ads to open in-app, they either need to change all their ads to MRAID or we have to use a really old version of the SDK (pre- 6.10.0)? Are those really our only options here?

Thanks

[Veer Arjun Busani(Mobile Ads SDK Team)]

Hi there,

Currently, the in-app browser facility is only available to direct serves and not backfills. If you are showing directly served or house ads, then you would be able to do this using MRAID. This option is only available, if needed, to the advertisers and cannot be controlled natively via the SDK.

Our client isn't using MRAID ads. So are you saying that in order for their ads to open in-app, they either need to change all their ads to MRAID or we have to use a really old version of the SDK (pre- 6.10.0)? Are those really our only options here?

Your only option would be to use MRAID here.

 

Arjun Busani

Mobile Ads SDK Team