AdMob crashes with [GADObjectPrivate changeState:]: unrecognized selector

Question

I have installed the AdMob SDK 6.2.0 (Xcode 4.5 (4G182) and I am testing on an iPhone 4S and the simulator). I followed the tutorial and just want to get AdMob showing a ban

Answer 1

If you guys are still having trouble, make sure it's -ObjC and not -Objc. Geez, spent weeks trying to figure out why.

Answer 2

You need to add -ObjC to the Other Linker Flags of your application target's build setting:

1. Click the blue top-level project icon in XCode
2. Choose your target and go to Build Settings
3. Under Other Linker Flags add -ObjC for both Release and Debug

Source: https://developers.google.com/mobile-ads-sdk/docs/admob/mediation#ios-linker

Also be sure to do a clean and rebuild

Answer 3

For those of you who tried adding the Obj-c linker flag and still got the same "unrecognized selector sent to instance" error when trying to load an ad I found a fix. This is for the newest XCode (version 8.1).

For reference:

• I added Google AdMob using cocoapods.
• I used storyboard to make an outlet connection to my viewcontroller and GADBannerView was NOT available as a class so I wrote it in like most people did.
• On one of the stackoverflow answers that I saw the custom class for the bannerview was set to GADBannerView, which I assume would happen automatically if it was an option in the dropdown list when you added the outlet. For me it wasn't since I had to type it in myself.

Looking at the dropdown I saw that GADBannerView was available as an option and selected it.

After selecting it, the app ran without a hitch, no need to add the linker flag (mine was blank by default) or anything.

Hope this helps someone else!

Answer 4

Best solution for me is use -force_load flag instead -ObjC