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Unity 2020 Mobile Game Development

You're reading from   Unity 2020 Mobile Game Development Discover practical techniques and examples to create and deliver engaging games for Android and iOS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838987336
Length 464 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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John P. Doran John P. Doran
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Preface 1. Building Your Game 2. Project Setup for Android and iOS Development FREE CHAPTER 3. Mobile Input/Touch Controls 4. Resolution-Independent UI 5. Advertising Using Unity Ads 6. Implementing In-App Purchases 7. Getting Social 8. Keeping Players Involved with Notifications 9. Using Unity Analytics 10. Making Your Title Juicy 11. Game Build and Submission 12. Augmented Reality 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Displaying a simple ad

Advertisements are a possible way to generate revenue from players playing your game. As mentioned previously, Unity Ads has two different types of ads that we can display: simple and rewarded. Simple ads are easy to use, hence the name, and allow users to have simple full-screen interstitial ads. This can be really useful for when moving between levels or perhaps for when the player wants to restart the game. Let's see how we can implement that feature now. Implement the following steps:

  1. To get started, we will need to add a new function to the UnityAdController class:
public static void ShowAd()
{
if (Advertisement.IsReady())
{
Advertisement.Show();
}
}

Here, we created a static method called ShowAd. We made this static so that we can access the function without actually having to create an instance of this class in order to call this function. We then check whether an advertisement is ready, and if it is, we will call the Show() function...

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