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5. Calling the ad formats

Every call still takes a placeholder string configured in the AKS portal — AKS resolves it to a network + failover list at runtime.

5.1 The bridging pattern

AKS's ad-callback types (AdsCallback, BannerCallback, NativeCallback, RewardedAdCallbacks, AppOpenAdCallbacks) are classes you subclass and override — not closures. The idiomatic pattern (used throughout AppsKitSDKAdsManagerIOS consumers) is a small private adapter class per format that:

Subclasses the AKS callback type and calls super.init().
Forwards each lifecycle event to whatever your own UI layer needs.
For banner, native, and rewarded, chains load→show itself — i.e. the adapter's onBannerLoaded()/onNativeLoaded()/onRewardedLoaded() override is what triggers the corresponding show... call, reusing self as the show-step's callback too.

swift

private class BannerCallbackAdapter: BannerCallback {
    private let onLoaded: () -> Void
    private let onFailed: (String) -> Void
    private weak var container: UIView?
    private let placeholder: String

    init(container: UIView, placeholder: String, onLoaded: @escaping () -> Void, onFailed: @escaping (String) -> Void) {
        self.container = container
        self.placeholder = placeholder
        self.onLoaded = onLoaded
        self.onFailed = onFailed
        super.init()
    }

    override func onBannerLoaded() {
        onLoaded()
        guard let vc = UIApplication.topViewController(), let view = container else {
            onFailed("No active view controller found")
            return
        }
        AppsKitSDKAdsManagerIOS.instance.showBanner(from: vc, placeholder: placeholder, container: view, callback: self)
    }
    override func onBannerFailedToLoad() { onFailed("") }
    override func onBannerClicked() {}
    override func onBannerShown() {}
    override func onBannerSizeChanged(bannerSizes: BannerSizes) {}
    override func setBannerSize(width: Double, height: Double) {}
}

UIApplication.topViewController() (provided by AppsKit.xcframework, as an extension on UIApplication) walks the key window's root view controller down through any presented/navigation/tab controller to find the actual frontmost screen — you need this anywhere a call requires a view controller but you only have a UIView or no UI context at all.

Interstitial

swift

// Load only
AppsKitSDKAdsManagerIOS.instance.loadInterstitial(from: viewController, placeholder: placeholder, callback: adapter)

// Show a previously loaded interstitial
AppsKitSDKAdsManagerIOS.instance.showInterstitial(from: viewController, placeholder: placeholder, callback: adapter)

adapter subclasses AdsCallback:

swift

private class InterstitialCallbackAdapter: AdsCallback {
    private let onAdLoaded: () -> Void
    private let onAdFailed: () -> Void

    init(onAdLoaded: @escaping () -> Void, onAdFailed: @escaping () -> Void) {
        self.onAdLoaded = onAdLoaded
        self.onAdFailed = onAdFailed
        super.init()
    }

    override func onLoaded()         { onAdLoaded() }
    override func onFailedToLoad()   { onAdFailed() }
    override func onAdShown()        {}
    override func onAdDismissed()    {}
    override func onAdFailedToShow() {}
}

Rewarded

swift

// Separate load/show — chain load→show in your adapter's onRewardedLoaded(), same pattern as banner/native
AppsKitSDKAdsManagerIOS.instance.loadRewarded(from: viewController, placeholder: placeholder, callback: adapter)

AppsKitSDKAdsManagerIOS.instance.showRewarded(from: viewController, placeholder: placeholder, callback: adapter)

adapter subclasses RewardedAdCallbacks and chains onRewardedLoaded() straight into showRewarded, reusing self as the show-step callback:

swift

private class RewardedAdCallbackAdapter: RewardedAdCallbacks {
    private let placeholder: String
    private let onUserEarnedReward: () -> Void
    private let onFailed: (String) -> Void

    init(placeholder: String, onUserEarnedReward: @escaping () -> Void, onFailed: @escaping (String) -> Void) {
        self.placeholder = placeholder
        self.onUserEarnedReward = onUserEarnedReward
        self.onFailed = onFailed
        super.init()
    }

    override func onRewardedLoaded() {
        guard let vc = UIApplication.topViewController() else {
            onFailed("No active view controller found")
            return
        }
        AppsKitSDKAdsManagerIOS.instance.showRewarded(from: vc, placeholder: placeholder, callback: self)
    }
    override func onAdRewarded()            { onUserEarnedReward() }
    override func onRewardedCompleted()     { onUserEarnedReward() }
    override func onAdRewardedAdDismissed() {}
    override func onRewardedAdLoadFailure() { onFailed("Failed to load rewarded ad") }
    override func onRewardedFailedToShow()  { onFailed("Failed to show rewarded ad") }
}

AKS also exposes a single-call loadAndShowRewarded(from:placeholder:callback:) on AppsKitSDKAdsManagerIOS, taking a RewardedLoadAndShowCallback — a protocol with just onRewardedAdSuccess()/onRewardedAdFailed() (no super.init() needed, since it's a protocol, not an abstract class). Use the separate loadRewarded/showRewarded pair above when you need to load ahead of time and show later; use loadAndShowRewarded when you always show immediately after loading.

App Open

swift

AppsKitSDKAdsManagerIOS.instance.loadAppOpen(placeholder: placeholder, callback: adapter)

AppsKitSDKAdsManagerIOS.instance.showAppOpen(from: viewController, placeholder: placeholder, callback: adapter)

adapter subclasses AppOpenAdCallbacks:

swift

private class AppOpenCallbackAdapter: AppOpenAdCallbacks {
    private let onAdLoaded: () -> Void
    private let onAdFailed: () -> Void

    init(onAdLoaded: @escaping () -> Void, onAdFailed: @escaping () -> Void) {
        self.onAdLoaded = onAdLoaded
        self.onAdFailed = onAdFailed
        super.init()
    }

    override func onLoaded()       { onAdLoaded() }
    override func onFailedToLoad() { onAdFailed() }
    override func onAdShown()      {}
    override func onDismiss()      {}
    override func onAdFailToShow() {}
}

This is the manual App Open path — for AKS's automatic application-level handling driven by remote config, use AKSBaseAppDelegate's built-in flow instead (§4.6).

swift

AppsKitSDKAdsManagerIOS.instance.loadBanner(from: viewController, placeholder: placeholder, callback: adapter)

AppsKitSDKAdsManagerIOS.instance.showBanner(from: viewController, placeholder: placeholder, container: bannerContainerView, callback: adapter)

adapter subclasses BannerCallback — see the full BannerCallbackAdapter definition in §5.1 above, which chains onBannerLoaded() straight into showBanner.

BannerSizes: BANNER (320×50), LARGE_BANNER (320×100), MEDIUM_RECTANGLE (300×250), FULL_BANNER (468×60).

Native

swift

AppsKitSDKAdsManagerIOS.instance.loadNative(from: viewController, placeholder: placeholder, isShowInScrollView: true, callback: adapter)

AppsKitSDKAdsManagerIOS.instance.showNative(
    from: viewController, container: nativeContainerView, placeholder: placeholder,
    res: nil, isShowInScrollView: true, callback: adapter
)

adapter subclasses NativeCallback and chains onNativeLoaded() straight into showNative, same pattern as BannerCallbackAdapter:

swift

private class NativeCallbackAdapter: NativeCallback {
    private weak var container: UIView?
    private let placeholder: String
    private let onAdLoaded: () -> Void
    private let onAdFailed: (String) -> Void

    init(container: UIView, placeholder: String, onAdLoaded: @escaping () -> Void, onAdFailed: @escaping (String) -> Void) {
        self.container = container
        self.placeholder = placeholder
        self.onAdLoaded = onAdLoaded
        self.onAdFailed = onAdFailed
        super.init()
    }

    override func onNativeLoaded() {
        onAdLoaded()
        guard let vc = UIApplication.topViewController(), let view = container else {
            onAdFailed("No active view controller found")
            return
        }
        AppsKitSDKAdsManagerIOS.instance.showNative(
            from: vc, container: view, placeholder: placeholder,
            res: nil, isShowInScrollView: true, callback: self
        )
    }
    override func onNativeFailedToLoad() { onAdFailed("") }
    override func onNativeClicked()      {}
    override func onNativeShown()        {}
}

Feature Promotion

Feature Promotion is wrapped by AppsKitSDKAdsManagerIOS, same as the other formats:

swift

// Optional — exclude features the user already has unlocked from being promoted
AppsKitSDKAdsManagerIOS.instance.setFeaturesAvailable(availableFeatures: ["premium_theme", "no_ads"])

AppsKitSDKAdsManagerIOS.instance.showFeaturePromotion(
    from: viewController,
    placeholder: placeholder,
    callback: adapter
)

adapter conforms to OnFeaturePromotionClicked — a protocol, not an abstract class, so no super.init() is needed:

swift

private class FeaturePromotionAdapter: NSObject, OnFeaturePromotionClicked {
    private let onClicked: (String) -> Void
    private let onFailed: (String) -> Void

    init(onClicked: @escaping (String) -> Void, onFailed: @escaping (String) -> Void) {
        self.onClicked = onClicked
        self.onFailed = onFailed
    }

    func onFeaturePromotionClicked(targetScreen: String)    { onClicked(targetScreen) }
    func onFailToShowFeaturePromotion(errorMessage: String) { onFailed(errorMessage) }
}

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