Using innerActive ads on Android (with AdWhirl)

UPDATE- This post is obsolete, please check this update post.


I've decided to try using multiple ad agencies, and one of them was innerActive. I had 2 problems with innerActive: (1) They don't supply an AdWhirl adapter, (2) There's seem to be a bug in their SDK as of version 2.0625

Problem A: The bug
The function onWindowFocusChanged which runs on the UI thread calls the function setRefreshInterval which has the keyword synchronized which means it waits for a lock. The lock is taken by the ad request thread. If the onWindowsFocusChanged will be called during an ad request there will be an ANR exception due to a delay on the UI thread.

Solution:
I wrote a wrapper that seems to fix this issue.

import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock;



import android.content.Context;

import android.util.AttributeSet;



import com.innerActive.ads.InnerActiveAdView;



public class InnerActiveAdViewFixed extends InnerActiveAdView {

private ReentrantLock mLock = new ReentrantLock();



public InnerActiveAdViewFixed(Context context) {

 super(context);

}



public InnerActiveAdViewFixed(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {

 super(context, attrs);

}



public InnerActiveAdViewFixed(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {

 super(context, attrs, defStyle);

}



// Patch

@Override

public void onWindowFocusChanged(boolean hasWindowFocus) {

 if (mLock.tryLock() == true) {

  try {

   super.onWindowFocusChanged(hasWindowFocus);

  } finally {

   mLock.unlock();

  }

 }

}



@Override

public byte start() {

 mLock.lock();

 try {

  return super.start();

 } finally {

  mLock.unlock();

 }

}

}

Problem B: No AdWhirl adapter
Solution:
I wrote a custom AdWhirl adapter for innerActive.

import android.util.Log;

import android.view.View;



import com.adwhirl.AdWhirlLayout;

import com.adwhirl.AdWhirlLayout.AdWhirlInterface;

import com.innerActive.ads.InnerActiveAdView;



public class InnerActiveCustomEvents implements AdWhirlInterface{

private AdWhirlLayout mAdWhirlLayout;



public InnerActiveCustomEvents(AdWhirlLayout adWhirlLayout) {

 super();

 this.mAdWhirlLayout = adWhirlLayout;

}



@Override

public void adWhirlGeneric() {

}



public void inneractiveBanner() {

 final InnerActiveAdViewFixed banner = new InnerActiveAdViewFixed(mAdWhirlLayout.getContext());

 banner.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

 banner.setRefreshInterval(0);

 banner.setScrollContainer(true);

 banner.setBgColor(0xFF000000);

 banner.setTxtColor(0xFFFFFFFF);



 banner.setListener(new InnerActiveAdView.AdEventsListener() {

 

  @Override

  public void onReceiveAd(InnerActiveAdView arg0) {

   banner.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

   Log.v("InnerActive Banner Listener", "Received Ad.");



   mAdWhirlLayout.handler.post(new AdWhirlLayout.ViewAdRunnable(mAdWhirlLayout, banner)); 



   mAdWhirlLayout.adWhirlManager.resetRollover();

   mAdWhirlLayout.rotateThreadedDelayed();   

  }

 

  @Override

  public void onFailedToReceiveAd(InnerActiveAdView arg0) {

   Log.v("InnerActive Banner Listener", "Failed To Receive Ad.");   

   mAdWhirlLayout.rollover();   

  }

 });   

}

}

I'm not going to write a step-by-step guide, but here is the key notes:

1. Integrate innerActive ads & make sure everything works.
2. Remove the ad view from the layout & the appropriate code the the ad view.
3. Integrate AdWhirl:
   3.1. Create an application in AdWhirl web site & get SDK Key
   3.2. Add AdWhirl JAR
   3.3. Add the AdWhirl SDK Key to the AndroidManifest.xml
   3.4. Add the com.adwhirl.AdWhirlLayout to the application layout
   
4. Add the following code (in the onCreate functions)
   AdWhirlLayout adWhirlLayout = (AdWhirlLayout)findViewById(R.id.adwhirl_layout);
   adWhirlLayout.setAdWhirlInterface(new InnerActiveCustomEvents(adWhirlLayout));
   
5. Add innerActive to AdWhirl as custom event - name: innerActive, function name: inneractiveBanner
   

Notes -

• If you're using multiple custom events, they should all be in the same function, so copy only the inneractiveBanner function.


• If you're using ProGaurd make sure you read my previous post & also add the custom events adapter & innerActive ad views to the ProGuard exceptions list.