When is the best time to reward the user?

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The logic of when or whether or not to grant a reward is controlled within your app, and AppLovin provides a few callbacks to help you determine whether or not to grant a reward.

The most relevant callbacks for rewarding users are Reward Verification Callback and Video Completed Callback

Reward Verification Callback

When you make a request to show a rewarded video the AppLovin SDK will verify the user against fraud, and check if they are valid for a reward from our perspective. If the user passes the verification successfully, AppLovin notifies your app using a callback:

Android  userRewardVerified
iOS didSucceedWithResponse
Unity onAppLovinEventReceived called and ev contains "REWARDAPPROVEDINFO"

 

Video Completed Callback

In addition, when the video completes, AppLovin notifies your app using a callback:

Android  videoPlaybackEnded with fullyWatched == true
iOS videoPlaybackEndedInAd with wasFullyWatched == YES
Unity onAppLovinEventReceived called and ev contains "VIDEOSTOPPED" and was not called with ev containing "USERCLOSEDEARLY"

Make sure to distinguish between completion of rewarded videos and video interstitials (non-incentivized interstitials).

One possibility is rewarding the user if the reward was verified for this video play, but only upon completion of the video. For this method you can set a boolean flag to indicate that the reward was verified, and check its value upon video completion.