Chartboost on Android

ChrisF

Does anyone have any experience with Chartboost on Android ?
So basically when I start the app from 'cold' Chartboost works fine, I get adverts, callbacks are good etc.
If however I exit the app (press home button), then resume the app it goes wrong.
I do a loadAd and it's fine, but when I do showAd I get an error back saying 'NO_HOST_ACTIVITY'

Anyone come across that before ?

SinisterSoft

I use chartboost in combination with AppLovin (much better btw) - I don't have that problem. The only thing I can think of is that you somehow have missed something somewhere - manifest or java file?

When you get it working, I would do a load of an AppLovin advert first, then only if it fails try chartboost.

ChrisF

Never got to the bottom of it, in the end if I get that error I just ripple down to the next ad network and next time around it works.

It works fine in native Android apps for me however.

After doing all of it I now plan to rip it all out and start again however, basically making another ad interface which is a hook onto a Java or Obj-c advert manager that interfaces into all the networks natively with a more fire and forget approach from Lua.

ar2rsawseen

This error in Chartboost could happen if activity is not passed for Chartboost, but I think Gideros plugin handles it:
https://github.com/gideros/gideros/blob/master/plugins/ads/source/Android/src/com/giderosmobile/android/plugins/ads/frameworks/AdsChartboost.java#L37-L48

ChrisF

Yeah that is what they told me when I got in touch. Something is not aligning correctly - no idea what.
I have used chartboost without problem in the past in native app's and compared the code and can't see anything wrong with the plugin

ar2rsawseen

Can you put logs in those calls and check that they are really called for you? And is the activity retrieved from weak reference is not null

ChrisF

sure, busy rest of this week (got someone paying to much for a Android Wear app) but will get to it weekend or early next week when this contract is over.

ChrisF

So just got around to this, at first it failed and I wasn't getting the events, then I upgraded to chartboost
6.2.0 (was in 6.1.0) and now it works !

Sorry for false alarm