Smart Banners

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Smart Banners are ad units that render screen-width banner ads on any screen size across different devices in either orientation. Smart Banners detect the width of the device in its current orientation and create the ad view that size.

Smart Banners on iPhones have a height of 50 points in portrait and 32 points in landscape. On iPads, height is 90 points in both portrait and landscape.

When an image ad isn't large enough to take up the entire allotted space, the image will be centered, and the space on either side will be filled in.

To use Smart Banners, just specify kGADAdSizeSmartBannerPortrait (for portait orientation) or kGADAdSizeSmartBannerLandscape (for landscape orientation) for the ad size:

Swift

let bannerView = GADBannerView(adSize: kGADAdSizeSmartBannerPortrait)

Objective-C

GADBannerView *bannerView = [[GADBannerView alloc]
      initWithAdSize:kGADAdSizeSmartBannerPortrait];

Since the addition of the safe area for iOS 11, for full-width banners you should also add constraints for the edges of the banner to the edges of the safe area. Here is a code snippet showing how to do this:

Swift

func addBannerViewToView(_ bannerView: GADBannerView) {
  bannerView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
  view.addSubview(bannerView)
  if #available(iOS 11.0, *) {
    // In iOS 11, we need to constrain the view to the safe area.
    positionBannerViewFullWidthAtBottomOfSafeArea(bannerView)
  }
  else {
    // In lower iOS versions, safe area is not available so we use
    // bottom layout guide and view edges.
    positionBannerViewFullWidthAtBottomOfView(bannerView)
  }
}

// MARK: - view positioning
@available (iOS 11, *)
func positionBannerViewFullWidthAtBottomOfSafeArea(_ bannerView: UIView) {
  // Position the banner. Stick it to the bottom of the Safe Area.
  // Make it constrained to the edges of the safe area.
  let guide = view.safeAreaLayoutGuide
  NSLayoutConstraint.activate([
    guide.leftAnchor.constraint(equalTo: bannerView.leftAnchor),
    guide.rightAnchor.constraint(equalTo: bannerView.rightAnchor),
    guide.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: bannerView.bottomAnchor)
  ])
}

func positionBannerViewFullWidthAtBottomOfView(_ bannerView: UIView) {
  view.addConstraint(NSLayoutConstraint(item: bannerView,
                                        attribute: .leading,
                                        relatedBy: .equal,
                                        toItem: view,
                                        attribute: .leading,
                                        multiplier: 1,
                                        constant: 0))
  view.addConstraint(NSLayoutConstraint(item: bannerView,
                                        attribute: .trailing,
                                        relatedBy: .equal,
                                        toItem: view,
                                        attribute: .trailing,
                                        multiplier: 1,
                                        constant: 0))
  view.addConstraint(NSLayoutConstraint(item: bannerView,
                                        attribute: .bottom,
                                        relatedBy: .equal,
                                        toItem: bottomLayoutGuide,
                                        attribute: .top,
                                        multiplier: 1,
                                        constant: 0))
}

Objective-C

- (void)addBannerViewToView:(UIView *)bannerView {
  bannerView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = NO;
  [self.view addSubview:bannerView];
  if (@available(ios 11.0, *)) {
    // In iOS 11, we need to constrain the view to the safe area.
    [self positionBannerViewFullWidthAtBottomOfSafeArea:bannerView];
  } else {
    // In lower iOS versions, safe area is not available so we use
    // bottom layout guide and view edges.
    [self positionBannerViewFullWidthAtBottomOfView:bannerView];
  }
}

#pragma mark - view positioning

- (void)positionBannerViewFullWidthAtBottomOfSafeArea:(UIView *_Nonnull)bannerView NS_AVAILABLE_IOS(11.0) {
  // Position the banner. Stick it to the bottom of the Safe Area.
  // Make it constrained to the edges of the safe area.
  UILayoutGuide *guide = self.view.safeAreaLayoutGuide;

  [NSLayoutConstraint activateConstraints:@[
    [guide.leftAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:bannerView.leftAnchor],
    [guide.rightAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:bannerView.rightAnchor],
    [guide.bottomAnchor constraintEqualToAnchor:bannerView.bottomAnchor]
  ]];
}

- (void)positionBannerViewFullWidthAtBottomOfView:(UIView *_Nonnull)bannerView {
  [self.view addConstraint:[NSLayoutConstraint constraintWithItem:bannerView
                                                        attribute:NSLayoutAttributeLeading
                                                        relatedBy:NSLayoutRelationEqual
                                                           toItem:self.view
                                                        attribute:NSLayoutAttributeLeading
                                                       multiplier:1
                                                         constant:0]];
  [self.view addConstraint:[NSLayoutConstraint constraintWithItem:bannerView
                                                        attribute:NSLayoutAttributeTrailing
                                                        relatedBy:NSLayoutRelationEqual
                                                           toItem:self.view
                                                        attribute:NSLayoutAttributeTrailing
                                                       multiplier:1
                                                         constant:0]];
  [self.view addConstraint:[NSLayoutConstraint constraintWithItem:bannerView
                                                        attribute:NSLayoutAttributeBottom
                                                        relatedBy:NSLayoutRelationEqual
                                                           toItem:self.bottomLayoutGuide
                                                        attribute:NSLayoutAttributeTop
                                                       multiplier:1
                                                         constant:0]];
}