Question

I’m just doing some initial research into creating iAds with iAd Producer, but we’d like to link the ad to an external website, rather than an iTunes listing.

Is this possible, if so, how would you go about it? Ideally clicking on the ad would open the link in Safari, but if there is a UIWebView equivalent that would be fine too (The WebGL view control confusingly seems to be for displaying 3d objects).

Many thanks in advance.

Ted

Answer 1

Ah, I’ve realised now I was overcomplicating things somewhat / missed the easy answer.

The iAds produced by iAd Producer are all HTML, with Javascript added to handle page / control events. This should have given me the clue that they themselves are executing in some sort of UIWebView control.

Hence, when I added the following Javascript, on a button click event, the user is warned they are leaving the app (well they were when leaving the iAd Tester app) and then thrown out into Safari to view the website, as I wanted all along. Simple. I guess it’s not really what Apple want people to do with iAds (it’s not driving them to the appstore), hence it’s not that well documented.

this.onViewTouchUpInside = function (event) {
document.location = "http://www.google.co.uk";

};