Frequently Asked Questions

All platforms
  • How is handled the geolocation?
    The geolocation is automatically retrieved by the Smart Display SDK following the restrictions of the current application. So, if the application blocks the geolocation, the Smart Display SDK will not be able to retrieve it, and if the application allow the geolocation, the Smart Display SDK will retrieve it depending if the automatic location is allowed. To enable/disable the automatic location:
    On Android: 
    SASConfiguration.getSharedInstance().setAutomaticLocationAllowed(true/false)
    On iOS: 
    SASConfiguration.shared.allowAutomaticLocationDetection = true/false
    [SASConfiguration sharedInstance].allowAutomaticLocationDetection = YES/NO
    Please note: On both platforms, the automatic location is allowed by default.
  • How can I check that the right geolocation coordinates are passed to the request?
    You can check that the right values are passed by checking the body of the request using Fiddler (Windows) or Charles (macOS X), or any other Proxy.
  • How viewability measurement is handled ?
  • Is prefetch mode still supported ?
    Starting version 7.0.0, we splited the load and show phases for the Interstitial. Thanks to this API modification, prefetch mode is not relevant anymore and we removed it.
Android
  • Why does proguard obfuscation break ad display?

    The SDK makes extensive use of the Android Javascript Interface mechanism to enable native method calls from javascript in WebViews. However, proguard's default configuration will allow the renaming of such methods , thus making them unreachable from javascript code, which breaks ad display.

    To ensure that those methods do not get obfuscated, add this rule to the proguard-project.txt configuration file in your project:

     -keepclassmembers class com.smartadserver.android.library.** {
 @android.webkit.JavascriptInterface <methods>;
 }
  • Why do I have google_play_services_version compilation error?
    If your project does not compile because of the following error: 
    No resource found that matches the given name (at 'value' with value '@integer/google_play_services_version')
    It probably means that you have not properly installed and linked the required Google Play Services library project in your environment. Please refer to the installation guide.
  • Why does my application crash when trying to display video ads ?
    If you do not declare the required Smart SDK dependencies in a transitive way (which pulls all needed dependencies without explicit declaration), recent Gradle plugin versions introduced an optimization when building the application that strips out some classes that are actually needed, leading to a class definition error at runtime, hence a crash. To avoid that, you must add a property to your gradle.properties file to disable that optimization : 

    android.enableDexingArtifactTransform=false
iOS