Showing Ads Closes Socket Connection

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• totebo Member

  February 2016

  Good catch. The ad must be using sockets too? Maybe you could use a different port.

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• mertocan Member

  February 2016

  I dont think so. It seems like it is suspending the game activity when ads are shown.

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  February 2016 Accepted Answer

  True, since some Ads use different activity, your current activity gets suspended. Unfortunately there is nothing to do, except preserve gamestate and close connection before showing an ad and then reopen it.

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• mertocan Member

  February 2016 edited February 2016

  Yes, Thats what I am going to do even if it is not a perfect solution

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  February 2016

  I didn't think about this - good catch.

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• antix Member

  February 2016

  @ar2rsawseen - On the activity suspend.. does that suspend timers also? seconds. If not you could use a timer to keep the connection with noobhub alive.
  
  @mertocan - If there is a way to detect when the app is going to show an add, could you increase your socket timeout value to compensate? Or schedule a reconnect event on advert complete?
  

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• mertocan Member

  February 2016

  @antix Actually, I have heartbeat message which is sent from client to server every second and vice versa. And Server checks last heartbeat received time. If this time is more than 6 seconds, then closes connection with client. Also, I have same implementation for client. However, I didn't check why connection is closed. It can be because of heartbeat timeout or socket timeout. For both cases, increasing timeout will cause other issues like if user closes its network connection while watching video etc.
  
  The best solution is the reconnect user when ad is over.

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