[Marcin]

Hello,
I have some problems with Chartboost plugin.
1. I am not able to force (pre)caching.
I am testing now game over location, but also for default location can’t force caching.
Some snippet from my code:

  id: chartboost

        appId:  Qt.platform.os === "ios" ? Configuration.chartboostAppleAppId : Configuration.chartboostGoogleAppId
        appSignature: Qt.platform.os === "ios" ? Configuration.chartboostAppleAppSignature :  Configuration.chartboostGoogleAppSignature

        // Do not use reward videos in this example
        shouldDisplayRewardedVideo: false

        shouldRequestInterstitialsInFirstSession: true

        onInterstitialCached: {
            logger.logDebug("Interstitial cached at location:%1".arg(location))
        }

        onInterstitialDisplayed: {
            logger.logDebug("Interstitial displayed location:%1".arg(location))
        }

        onInterstitialDismissed: {
            logger.logDebug("Interstitial dismissed location:%1".arg(location))
        }

        onInterstitialFailedToLoad: {
            logger.logDebug("InterstitialFailedToLoad at location:%1, error: %2".arg(location).arg(error))
        }

        onRewardedVideoCached: {
            logger.logDebug("RewaredVideoCached at location:%1".arg(location))
        }
        Component.onCompleted: {
            logger.logDebug('%1 is cached(has) %2'.arg(Chartboost.GameOverLocation).arg(hasInterstitial(Chartboost.GameOverLocation)))
            if (!hasInterstitial(Chartboost.GameOverLocation)) {
                cacheInterstitial(Chartboost.GameOverLocation)
            }
            // foce the cache, still does not work
            cacheInterstitial(Chartboost.GameOverLocation)
            cacheInterstitial()
        }

I am still not able to cache it.
Only after I display video/image form Chartboost I get:

V CBRequestManager: "ad-portrait": {

V CBRequestManager: "url": "https:\/\/a.chartboost.com\/creatives\/5715cc9cf6cd4541a67ed60d\/068690068fe2657a

D CBWebImageCache: downloading image to cache... https://a.chartboost.com/creatives/.../...jpeg

I System.out: (HTTPLog)-Static: isSBSettingEnabled false

I System.out: (HTTPLog)-Static: isSBSettingEnabled false

I qtaguid : Tagging socket 51 with tag 4c7f4fc500000000{1283411909,0} uid -1, pid: 8572, getuid(): 10278

I qtaguid : Untagging socket 51

D ad : ##### Adding aimpression-> interstitial-native at locationGame Over

D ad : ##### Impression should cache:true

D assets:/qml/common/Logger.qml:48 (logDebug): qml: ==========[Debug]Interstitial cached at location:

Do I miss anything?

2. Interstitial video
There are ways to detect display/dismiss/closing ad, mostly for image ads.
Is there a way to detect when video stops playing?
I see in logs entries form media player, but nothing extra from Chartboost plugin.
Currently, using the plugin, I am not able to detect when video finishes.
Maybe I miss something?

 

3. Is the example app at github, still supported an should work?
https://github.com/vplayplugins/ChartboostSample

[GüntherFelgo Team]

Hi Marcin,

Thanks for reaching out! We will take a closer look at the caching of the plugin. Also, we are working on switching to latest Chartboost Framework version, which might also help with such caching issues.

Checking if the user has fully watched a video is only possible for Rewarded Videos. The plugin provides the signal Chartboost::rewardedVideoCompleted for that.

The ChartboostSample is no longer supported since we integrated all plugins in the engine and not as additional modules now. The reference for all our plugins is now the PluginDemo.

Best,
Günther

[Marcin]

Hi Günther,
Thank you for answers.
Hopefully you will be able to find any issues with caching, if there are any, I would really like to use cache in my game.

Do you know, more or less, when the next v-play version will be released?
I am really interested in updating to newer Chartboost SDK.

Marcin

[GüntherFelgo Team]

Hi Marcin,

I have good news! We already had time to work on updating the Chartboost Plugin and fix some caching issues.
The new version will most probably be part of the the update coming this week.

Best,
Günther

[Marcin]

Hi Günther,
That’s very good.

Definitely will test once it’s ready.

[Marcin]

Hi Günther,
I did some testing mostly for rewarded videos because that is what I am working on now.

Good:
1

locationType and updated docs

Didn’t test all methods for this extra parameter, but the methods I tested work great: Thanks.

Btw. did you put the info that this was added?
I have a feeling that I only looked there(docs) and found the new parameter because I was explicitly looking  for this.
If you didn’t communicate this change, I suggest try put this info somewhere, maybe not in the main but in the devs changelog.

 

2

Adverts appear much more often, looks  really well.
Definitely big improvement, can really test the workflow.

 

3

Can cache rewarded video! But not in every cases, more below.

 

Potential issues/questions:

1

cacheRewardedVideo called in Component.onCompleted
When I try to cache rewarded video right after Chartboost component is loaded, I see in logs it start caching it but never finishes
I see something like this:

D/dalvikvm( 9881): GC_CONCURRENT freed 333K, 8% free 12554K/13575K, paused 13ms+2ms, total 41ms
D/dalvikvm( 9881): GC_CONCURRENT freed 421K, 8% free 12577K/13575K, paused 18ms+2ms, total 68ms

But in this case, after it stops echoing these, nothing happens.
But when I try to cache in some scenes etc. it caches it fine, at the end I get signal `onRewardedVideoCached

 

2

Some issues/new error messages I haven’t seen before.
Can be just too verbose output but maybe not:

1.
I/dalvikvm(23035): Could not find method android.app.Activity.checkSelfPermission, referenced from method com.chartboost.sdk.c.b
W/dalvikvm(23035): VFY: unable to resolve virtual method 32: Landroid/app/Activity;.checkSelfPermission (Ljava/lang/String;)I


2.
I/dalvikvm(23035): Could not find method org.json.JSONArray.<init>, referenced from method com.chartboost.sdk.Libraries.e$a.b
W/dalvikvm(23035): VFY: unable to resolve direct method 31219: Lorg/json/JSONArray;.<init> (Ljava/lang/Object;)V

3.
E/dalvikvm(23035): Could not find class 'com.flurry.sdk.i', referenced from method com.flurry.sdk.md.a
W/dalvikvm(23035): VFY: unable to resolve const-class 2043 (Lcom/flurry/sdk/i;) in Lcom/flurry/sdk/md;


3
I/dalvikvm(23035): Could not find method android.os.StatFs.getAvailableBlocksLong, referenced from method com.flurry.sdk.jb.a
W/dalvikvm(23035): VFY: unable to resolve virtual method 1557: Landroid/os/StatFs;.getAvailableBlocksLong ()J


5
W/System.err(23035): java.lang.SecurityException: Neither user 10146 nor current process has android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE.

 

[GüntherFelgo Team]

Hi Marcin,

Thanks for your additional testing, we will have a look at the things you pointed out.

Best,
Günther