Biryulki and Gugloservis

Programming is not a playworm.
I. V. Stalin

I want to remind you of the ancient Russian game Baby Birds, a toy for the iPhone and Adwhirl, a closing Google service, with which you have to do something urgently.

Foreword

The rural childhood has gone away, and with it the games. And they loved to play in Russia. Grandmas, trifles, salki, lapta - everything was forgotten, only the names in proverbs and neologisms remained. The rules of the pullets are very simple - different utensils are poured into the bucket and in turn pulled out by a hook on a string. We must get another tsatsku so that others do not collapse.
About 20 years ago I made a computer analogue of this game and about 20 people have been playing it on desktops for almost a year.

Trailers in the store

The other day I rewrote it under iOS and posted it to the store. Alas, the game is difficult, not for the mass user. The player needs a mathematical mindset and knowledge of the formula for the square of the sum. I won’t earn money on such a game, but by tradition I use a bunch of Apple’s iAd and Google Admob ads in the application. Free application can be viewed here in the Russian store .
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Earnings from advertising

It is known that earnings from advertising from Apple is three times more than from Google. This means that if you play 100 people a day in your game and watch apple commercials, then you will drop 3 daily dollars. Similar viewing by the same 100 people of Google advertising will bring you daily 1 dollar of income.
Unfortunately, apple advertising does not work in all countries of the world. America, England, Japan - of course there is civilization, and Apple helps developers make a living. Google will help you in Russia, China and Brazil.

Adwhirl closes

How to combine two advertising platforms in one application? For example, google service Adwhirl.
Alas, a week ago, a notification came from Google that the Adwhirl service was closing.

In September, it will stop working and all developers need to look for analogues. Google proposes to use the admob mediation service instead of the old one.
I used this advice. In my game, I switched to a new service quickly and painlessly and received my first income ($ 1) from a new bundle, which I inform you about.

A few notes on the transition

1. You need to download the new version of Admob SDK 6.4.2
2. In no case do not use the documentation from the Google site, but use the example contained in the SDK;
3. Do not forget to enable iAd and always press the save button;
4. Arrange country targeting for admob and iAd.
5. Swap id Admob in id Admob Mediation

All good summer and easy code.