Displaying AdMob ads on iOS with Xamarin Forms!

All the tutorials on displaying ads on iOS are currently broken, as the package used to display ads has been removed.

There is a new package, however the usage example it gives is for an iOS dependent project. It will not work/compile for use in Xamarin Forms

The approach is the same however, You are rendering a View you declare in your portable project

Install the correct ad package, it should look like this in Nuget Package Manager

Here is the view I created in my Xamarin Forms project.

namespace CanadianClassifiedsAlerter
{
    public class AdMobView : View
    {
        public AdMobView() { }
    }
}

In my iOS project, I created a ViewRenderer.

[assembly: ExportRenderer(typeof(AdMobView), typeof(AdMobRenderer))]
namespace CanadianClassifiedsAlerter.iOS
{
    public class AdMobRenderer : Xamarin.Forms.Platform.iOS.ViewRenderer
    {
        const string bannerId = "THISISWHEREMY_AD_IDGOES";

        BannerView adView;
        bool viewOnScreen = false;

        protected override void OnElementChanged(ElementChangedEventArgs<Xamarin.Forms.View> e)
        {
            base.OnElementChanged(e);
            // Setup your BannerView, review AdSizeCons class for more Ad sizes. 
            adView = new BannerView(size: AdSizeCons.Banner, origin: new CGPoint(-10, 0))
            {
                AdUnitID = bannerId,
                RootViewController = UIApplication.SharedApplication.Windows[0].RootViewController
            };

            // Wire AdReceived event to know when the Ad is ready to be displayed
            adView.AdReceived += (object sender, EventArgs ea) => {
               
                viewOnScreen = true;
            };

            adView.LoadRequest(Request.GetDefaultRequest());
            base.SetNativeControl(adView);
        }
    }


}

Now, after all is said and done to add it to my page, it’s this simple!

 

 mainLayout.Children.Add(new AdMobView
            {
                WidthRequest = 320,
                HeightRequest = 50
            });

Your end result should look like this

EDIT: Sample project files are here

Unused Canadian Classifieds Portable Project Files (Xamarin Forms).

I decided to use Xamarin.iOS instead for this project, so feel free to do whatever with those files.

 

EDIT: A user followed the advice from this article and got the following error…

“Foundation.MonoTouchException: Objective-C exception thrown. Name: NSInvalidArgumentException Reason: -[AppDelegate window]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x79aa9b10”

He override the Window with the following code and away it worked!

public override UIWindow Window {
get
{
return UIApplication.SharedApplication.KeyWindow;
}
}