I worked with Mission One and planning NYARO on an update to their popular and fun app, My Announcer.

My task was to add in-app advertising functionality to the app. This meant designing a system that could detect whether iAd is available on a user’s device (currently only in the US) and display an ad banner. If iAd isn’t available to the user, the plugin detects this, and switches to a custom ad banner from a third party advertiser. If no internet connection is available at all to load an advert, no banner is shown.

I was asked to make this code act as a plugin so that it could be reused easily in other apps and ensure that it was fully documented for implementation by anyone.

The first app to use this system, My Announcer, is available for free on the app store now:

My Announcer for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store

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