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Reference the basic SDK documentation to learn how to request ad placements with the TJPlacement class—ensuring that placement names match those configured in the Tapjoy dashboard.
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Requesting a Placement

To request a Placement, use the
TJPlacement
class. Be sure the Placement name string in your code exactly matches the Placement name in the dashboard:
TJPlacementListener placementListener = this;
TJPlacement p = Tapjoy.getPlacement("[PLACEMENT_NAME]", placementListener);
When the listener methods are in place, and the placement has been instantiated, you can request content for that placement:
if(Tapjoy.isConnected())
	p.requestContent();
else
	Log.d("MyApp", "Tapjoy SDK must finish connecting before requesting content.")
Before you request content, ensure that the Tapjoy connect call has succeeded. Do not make a request before you have received the
onConnectSuccess
callback.

Pre-caching the content

For the best user experience, request content in advance of when the user might be shown that content. For example, if the placement is a button on your main menu, you might want to request content for it when your application starts, just after the Tapjoy Connect call succeeds. If you wait until the last moment to request content, it is likely the user will have to wait for the content to load, and watch a loading spinner. For ads, this makes the user less likely to interact with the ad, and therefore less likely to make money for you.

Listeners

You will need to prepare delegate methods to handle the various placement responses. At a minimum, your class will need to extend the TJPlacementListener interface (public class YourMainActivity extends and Activity implements TJPlacementListener). The primary methods defined by the
TJPlacementListener
interface are:
public void onRequestSuccess(TJPlacement placement); // This just means the SDK has made contact with the Offerwall servers. It does not necessarily mean that any content is available.
public void onRequestFailure(TJPlacement placement, TJError error);
public void onContentReady(TJPlacement placement); //This is called when the content is actually available to display.
public void onContentShow(TJPlacement placement);
public void onContentDismiss(TJPlacement placement);
The recommended best practice is to mute your audio before showing content from a placement that might include video, otherwise the audio for the video and your app’s audio might conflict. Often, it is a good idea to wait until the onContentReady delegate fires before showing content to the user. This way, you can be sure that the content is actually on the device, and can be shown to the user without delay. Another equivalent way is to check to see if p.isContentReady() is true, as in the example above.

Show a Placement

When you request a TJPLacement you pass along a TJPLacementListener object. Your TJPlacementListener has a callback for "onRequestSuccess". The onRequestSuccess callback is fired after the SDK has successfully made a content request to our servers. When this fires, you can check if the TJPlacement has content by calling the isContentAvailable function:
public void onRequestSuccess(TJPlacement tjPlacement)
{
	if(tjPlacement.isContentAvailable())
	{
		//There is an ad unit available
	}
	else 
	{
		//Fall-through
  }
}
public void onContentReady(TJPlacement tjPlacement) 
{
	if(tjPlacement.isContentReady()) 
	{
		// We can uncomment the following line to show the ad as soon as it finishes loading, 
		// or call showContent at a later point when we're ready to display the ad.
	    tjPlacement.showContent();
	}
}

Re-requesting the content

When you successfully display content from a placement to a user, you must request content again (for example, call
p.requestContent();
again) to "reload" the placement with another content unit. You cannot call
p.showContent();
again. If you try to show content before requesting content, the show content will fail.
You can show content if content is ready:
if(p.isContentReady()) {
    p.showContent();
}
else {
    //handle situation where there is no content to show, or it has not yet downloaded.
}

Handling Tapjoy Content Action Requests

Some Tapjoy content types, like Reward and IAP Promotion, require your code to take action based on parameters passed by that content unit. For example, the Reward content unit specifies an item name (a string) and a quantity (an integer) to be given to the user. It is up to the application to actually adjust the user’s inventory to reflect the reward. The following delegate methods exist for these special types of content unit:
public void onPurchaseRequest(TJPlacement placement, TJActionRequest request, String productId); //onPurchaseRequest called when user clicks the product link in IAP promotion content. Put the code that actually triggers the IAP here.
//
//
public void onRewardRequest(TJPlacement placement, TJActionRequest request, String itemId, int quantity); //called when the content closed in reward content

Setting the Entry Point

You can optionally tell Tapjoy the entry point of each placement. There are a variety of preset values to choose from:
TJEntryPoint.ENTRY_POINT_UNKNOWN
TJEntryPoint.ENTRY_POINT_OTHER
TJEntryPoint.ENTRY_POINT_MAIN_MENU
TJEntryPoint.ENTRY_POINT_HUD
TJEntryPoint.ENTRY_POINT_EXIT
TJEntryPoint.ENTRY_POINT_FAIL
TJEntryPoint.ENTRY_POINT_COMPLETE
TJEntryPoint.ENTRY_POINT_INBOX
TJEntryPoint.ENTRY_POINT_INIT
TJEntryPoint.ENTRY_POINT_STORE 
Set the entry point after creating your placement object, but before requesting content:
TJPlacement placement = Tapjoy.getPlacement("myPlacement", null);
placement.setEntryPoint(TJEntryPoint.ENTRY_POINT_MAIN_MENU);
placement.requestContent();