This guide explains how to implement more control over clickthrough in your IMA SDK implementation. "Clickthrough" refers to the process of a user clicking on an ad and getting to the landing page for that ad. The examples in this guide demonstrates how to configure where that landing page opens and how to listen for events related to users visiting that page.
Prerequisites
An iOS application with the IMA SDK implemented.
Configuring clickthrough
Changing the link opener
The IMA SDK offers two options for opening ad landing pages—via an in-app browser, or via Safari. By default, the SDK opens pages using Safari. To update the SDK to use an in-app browser, you need to useIMAAdsRenderingSettings
:
- (void)createAdsRenderingSettings { self.adsRenderingSettings = [[IMAAdsRenderingSettings alloc] init]; self.adsRenderingSettings.linkOpenerDelegate = self; self.adsRenderingSettings.linkOpenerPresentingController = self; }
IMAAdsRenderingSettings
instance, you can pass it to the
IMAAdsManager
initialization method:
[self.adsManager initializeWithAdsRenderingSettings:adsRenderingSettings];
Listening for clickthrough-related events
The IMA SDK provides theIMALinkOpenerDelegate
to communicate when the user is about
to see or has just closed a clickthrough page. To use this delegate, add it to your delegate
list in the header, and implement its methods. In the header:
@interface ViewController : UIViewController<IMALinkOpenerDelegate>
- (void)linkOpenerWillOpenExternalBrowser:(NSObject *)linkOpener { NSLog(@"External browser will open."); } - (void)linkOpenerWillOpenInAppBrowser:(NSObject *)linkOpener { NSLog(@"In-app browser will open"); } - (void)linkOpenerDidOpenInAppBrowser:(NSObject *)linkOpener { NSLog(@"In-app browser did open"); } - (void)linkOpenerWillCloseInAppBrowser:(NSObject *)linkOpener { NSLog(@"In-app browser will close"); } - (void)linkOpenerDidCloseInAppBrowser:(NSObject *)linkOpener { NSLog(@"In-app browser did close"); }