AdMob

Jacko

Hi,
Can someone tell me step by step how to add AdMob?
thanks in advance:)

Tom2012

Hi Jacko

This caused me a few headaches but checkout my little guide here

http://giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/5922/solved-problem-running-admob-on-android/p1

Let me know if you hit any problems

Jacko

Hi @Tom2012
I get error at point 14)

<application android:icon="<a href="https://forum.giderosmobile.com/profile/drawable%2Ficon%26quot" rel="nofollow">@drawable/icon&quot</a>; android:label="<a href="https://forum.giderosmobile.com/profile/string%2Fapp_name%26quot" rel="nofollow">@string/app_name&quot</a>; android:theme="<a href="https://forum.giderosmobile.com/profile/android" rel="nofollow">@android</a>:style/Theme.NoTitleBar.Fullscreen" <!-- google play --> <meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.version" android:value="<a href="https://forum.giderosmobile.com/profile/integer%2Fgoogle_play_services_version%26quot" rel="nofollow">@integer/google_play_services_version&quot</a>; /> <activity android:name="com.google.android.gms.ads.AdActivity" android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenLayout|uiMode|screenSize|smallestScreenSize" /> >

Jacko

If I pass your points how add admob?

Tom2012

Have you added google play services into your project OK?

Tom2012

Oh and you have to really make sure that those lines are not broken. They need to be one line. Double click the AndroidManifest.xml file in Android studio to check there's no line break / carriage return in there as this caused errors for me many times.

EDIT - Should look like:

<!-- google play --> <meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.version" android:value="<a href="https://forum.giderosmobile.com/profile/integer%2Fgoogle_play_services_version%26quot" rel="nofollow">@integer/google_play_services_version&quot</a>; /> <activity android:name="com.google.android.gms.ads.AdActivity" android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenLayout|uiMode|screenSize|smallestScreenSize" />

And not...

<!-- google play --> <meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.version" android:value="<a href="https://forum.giderosmobile.com/profile/integer%2Fgoogle_play_services_version%26quot" rel="nofollow">@integer/google_play_services_version&quot</a>; /> <activity android:name="com.google.android.gms.ads.AdActivity" android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenLayout|uiMode|screenSize|smallestScreenSize" />

Tom2012

As for getting Admob into your Gideros project...

First add this to your main.lua file

-- Ads plugin   require "ads"   admob = Ads.new("admob") --admob:enableTesting() -- loads test ads when enabled   admob:addEventListener(Event.AD_RECEIVED, function(e) if(adType=="interstitial") then adReceived = true end print("got ad",e.type) end)   admob:addEventListener(Event.AD_FAILED, function(e) print("ad failed",e.error) adReceived = nil end)

When you want to load an ad, use:

admob:setKey("1111111/2222222") admob:loadAd("banner", "ca-app-pub-1111111/2222222") admob:showAd("banner")

Let me know how you get on!

Jacko

Hello Sir,
You were right I did not have added Google Play

Tom2012

Cool! Hope the rest of the install goes OK. >-

Jacko

AdMob can not be tested in Gideros?

ar2rsawseen

It can, but only on the same platform you implement it in.

So if you add plugin to Android, you can test it only on Android

Jacko

What if get this error?

no field package.preload['ads']
no file './ads.lua'
no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/ads.lua'
no file '/usr/local/share/lua/5.1/ads/init.lua'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/ads.lua'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/ads/init.lua'
no file './ads.so'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/ads.so'
no file '/usr/local/lib/lua/5.1/loadall.so'

ar2rsawseen

then you incorrectly added the plugin to project.

either libads.so file is missing, or you did not place System.load("ads") in main activity