Is it a problem when an iAd may be obscured?

Question

I added the ADBannerView to a view and when I load the app I get the following message:

ADBannerView: WARNING A banner view (0x7a023c0) has an ad but may be obscured. Th

Answer 1

The answer from LearnCocos2D was the solution for me. Not sure if this is a specific issue with Cocos2D (which I am using). My problem was I was using the "new" style animations using blocks which Apple recommends using, animateWithDuration:delay:options:animations:completion: When I use these, I get the obscured warning. I guess the problem is the view is partially obscured while it's animating in, hence the warning, but you can't make it completely visible before it's done animating, obviously, unless you just want to pop it on screen, which is ugly.

That's OK, because switching back to the "old" style animation using beginAnimations: and commitAnimations: did eliminate the warnings for me. I'm curious if this warning means you are actually missing out on ad revenue or if it's just annoying but not actually a problem.