Support for Apple Silicon for the Google IMA SDK for iOS

[Georgi Boyadzhiev]

Hello,

I have several products that use the Google IMA SDK, recently I have upgraded to a M1 MacBook Pro machine and now I am experiencing issues when compiling for simulator. The problem is that the simulator now uses arm64 architecture and the IMA Pod is not adapted for this. 

When will the SDK be compiled to support Apple Silicon.

Kind Regards,

G.B.

[IMA SDK]

Hi Georgi,

Thank you for bringing up your use case for arm 64 simulator support. I raised this request to the rest of my team. You may monitor our release notes for an update.

Regards,

Aryeh Baker IMA SDK Team

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[Georgi Boyadzhiev]

Thanks a lot. It will be of great help gor me and my team!

[IMA SDK]

Hi Enrique,

Thank you for showing interest in this feature. As I have reached out to oiur team to see what is happening. At the moment we have no new information or any updates to pass along regarding this. Or when any new updates will be passed along. Once we know we will be happy to share it with you. But in the mean time we would suggest following our Release Notes , as this is the best place to keep up to date about any changes.

Regards,

William Pescherine Mobile Ads SDK Team

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[Enrique Garcia]

If anyone is interested, it's possible to create a XCFramework in the meantime (until officially released).

Here you can check the instructions:

https://github.com/kikeenrique/arm64-to-sim

Regards.

[IMA SDK]

Hi Enrique,

Thank you for sharing this information. Let me also share this with the team for reference. In the meantime, you may keep an eye on our release notes for updates with regard to this feature.


Regards,

Sherwin Diesta IMA SDK Team

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[Aaron Bonham]

Hello,

Is there any update for this? It's a production blocker for me at the moment as I can't run unit tests or compile for the simulator your new developer Mac (M1 MacBook Pro).

[IMA SDK]

Hi Aaron,

 

Thank you for reaching out to us. However, the team is still working on this. Let me bring your message to the team and we will update you the soonest we get their feedback.

Regards,

Michael Angelo Legaspi IMA SDK Team

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[Adam Szabo]

Hi,

It's also quite a blocker for our team as we won't be able to upgrade to M1s until this gets resolved. It's a year now that M1s are around. Is there any update on this?

Regards,

Adam

[IMA SDK]

Hi Adam,

 

Thank you for reaching out to us.

 

Our team has advised that any updates regarding this feature request will appear on our release notes. Please keep an eye on it for future updates.

Regards,

[Eric Slosser]

This library's lack of M1 support is blocking various teams at my company. We're all eagerly looking forward to it.

[Aaron Bonham]

Considering we are a year into the transition and the new MacBook Pros have been released, it’s shameful that the SDK hasn’t been updated yet

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[Jason Tibbetts]

The SDK will run on M1 Macs, just not natively. I use a tool that repackages the binaries for iOS and tvOS into an XCFramework, and it’s ok on the original 13” M1 MBP. 

Even if it gets M1 support, though, we can’t use the latest version anyway because of that persistent error complaining about the view hierarchy. We’re still on 3.12.1. 

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[Aaron Bonham]

I wrote the same kind of thing when we got our first Apple Silicon, but the point is that we shouldn’t have to. It’s really not a big ask to provide an XCFramework out of the box from an SDK that is linked to their own ad platform and directly generates them revenue. I’d hope they have enough of a budget to fix *both* issues. We suffer the same crash too. 

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[IMA SDK]

Hi All,

We want to thank you all for reaching out to us and let you know that this is still being worked on. This has not been ignored and we have even been told to suggest to users the following link. This is considered only a temporary workaround as the team continues to work on this.

Regards,

William Pescherine IMA SDK Team

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[Aaron Bonham]

Yes, I believe we are all doing some variation of this as an unpleasant hack to make things work and have been doing so for a year now, which is quite a lot longer than I’d call “temporary”

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Subject: Re: [ima-sdk] Re: Support for Apple Silicon for the Google IMA SDK for iOS

[IMA SDK]

Hi Aaron,

 

I do understand your situation here. But, I really do see some progress in our investigation, currently there has been a blocking bug that has been fixed, and will surely help our engineers to proceed with the investigation on supporting this. However, I cannot share any further information as this is very internal procedure. You may keep an eye on our release notes for future updates.

Regards,

Michael Angelo Legaspi IMA SDK Team

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[Artem Melnyk]

Any updates?

вівторок, 26 жовтня 2021 р. о 05:40:04 UTC+3 imasdk пише:

[IMA SDK]

Hello Artem,

 

Thank you for reaching out to us.

 

I'm afraid there has no recent updates for this feature support. Let me make another follow up here. For the meantime, you can follow our blog post or release notes for future updates.

Regards,

[Steve Graesser]

Add my company to the list of developers who would like to see an XCFramework version of the IMA SDK for iOS. Also, Swift Package Manager support would be good too.

[IMA SDK]

Hello Steve,

 

Thank you for showing interest in this feature.

 

The support for this feature is already on the works and soon will be released. You may keep an eye on our release notes or blog post for latest key updates and releases.

Regards,

[Aaron Bonham]

If it’s being worked on, is there any chance of getting access to a beta version?

 

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[IMA SDK]

Hello Aaron,

 

Thanks for getting back to us.

 

I'm afraid that we do not have beta version that we can publicly share, as the development stage are accessible by our engineers only. Rest assured that once it goes live, we will notify users publicly via our blog post or release notes.

Regards,

Michael Angelo IMA SDK Team

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[Aaron Bonham]

I see there was a new version that was released on the 23^rd of Feb, any chance that version takes care of this issue?

[IMA SDK]

Hi Aaron,

I'm afraid that the support for this feature is not yet included on the recently version released and The team is still currently working on this. In the meantime, you may keep an eye on our release notes or blog post for updates regarding this.

Regards,

Teejay Wennie IMA SDK Team

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[Eduardo Miranda]

Hello,

is there an update on the XCFramework version for both iOS and tvOS sdk? I see that your colleagues at Google Cast already have it (see https://developers.google.com/cast/docs/ios_sender#manual_setup), you may want to reach out to them so you can extend it to IMA. This is getting really overdue....

Regards,

Eduardo

[Enrique Garcia]

Hello,

I did lose all hope in SDK support time ago, the best alternative is to use a tool to create the xcframework yourself using the official SDKs. 

You can check the tool in https://github.com/darrarski/xcframework-maker

Regards

[IMA SDK]

Hello Eduardo and Enrique,

 

Thank you for coming to us.

 

I believe the support for this feature is already on its way to released. Our team is on evaluation phase finalizing some details and you may end up seeing this aforementioned feature request very soon. You may want to check our release notes at a later date for this update.

Regards,

Michael Angelo IMA SDK Team

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[Eduardo Miranda]

Hello Michael,

May I know if xcframework support is coming to ima tvOS soon?

Regards,

Eduardo

[IMA SDK]

Hello Eduardo,

 

Thank you for your additional question.

 

With regards to TVOS, I would say that it is on the map of our internal team to add xcframework support for the said platform. However, tvOS will require more work and testing, thus we cannot give definitive time or make an assumption if tvOS support will happen in this quarter. We recommend to keep an eye in our blog post for future updates.

Regards,

[ArtFeel]

Come on Google, just make a XCFramework!

A lot of people have been waiting for two years, this is not a rocket science

Here is a script for you engineers:

https://github.com/darrarski/xcframework-maker

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[IMA SDK]

Hello ArtFeel,

 

Thank you for showing interest in this feature and for sharing a sample script. Allow me to raise this to the rest of our team. Rest assured that our team will be looking into it for future integration of XCFramework on tvOS. You may keep an eye on our blog post or release notes for latest updates.

Regards,

[Karl Bode]

Hi,

another push for this from my / our side. +1

Looking forward to it!

[IMA SDK]

Hello all,

 

Thank you for showing interest in this feature. I have a good news to announce that the latest tvOS release (tentative 4.8.2) will include support for XCFrameworks. You may monitor our release notes and blog post for latest updates.

Regards,

[Eduardo Miranda]

Great news! Christmas is coming earlier this year :) 

[sc...@appswage.com]

Over a month later and with 4.8.2 out I don't see this support listed. What is the status? Thanks.

[IMA SDK]

Hi Scott,

 

Thank you for reaching out to the IMA SDK support team.

 

In the latest version of IMA tvOS V4.8.2, the XCFrameworks is already supported. However, since you mentioned that you don't see this when you tried the 4.8.2, can you provide us your sample app project? You can provide it via reply privately to author option or directly provide it to the link below.

 

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Regards,

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[IMA SDK]

Hi Jake,

 

Thank you for your response.

 

Can you confirm if you've tried our sample app for tvOS? Since it was updated to the latest version 4.8.2 that was suppose to be supported the arm64. You may check it as reference in your implementation.