AdMob plugin

ar2rsawseen · October 2012

I know this was requested many times, so today I gave another shot at AdMob plugin for Android and although it took me whole day, maybe this time it was successful.

Well at least you all ought to test it

Wanted to say thank you to @hgvyas123 for initial version, which unfortunately did not work on my android, but I took a lot from that plugin code and it really eased the understanding of how plugin works. Basically this plugin uses weak reference to activity, which I think also solves the problem for older Androids, so at least now it is working on mine Android 2.2 and Android 2.3 phones.
And introduced couple of additions as providing ad type, etc.

So here's the plugin itself, Android project with plugin code and Gideros example project, as well as installation and docs for usage:

http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile/AdMob-plugin-for-Android

If you find anything wrong or not working, post here and will try to resolve it

ar2rsawseen · October 2012

Oh and by the way if it works ok, it would be quite easy to create similar ad plugins as for example inneractive, etc based on same template.

pykaso · October 2012

Great !

talis · October 2012

Wow this is marvaleous job^_^

GregBUG · October 2012

wow!
nice work @ar2rsawseen !

thanks for this!

gorkem · October 2012

How's it different from your previous AdMob for Android tutorial here? (http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile/Gideros-Implementing-AdMob-for-Android)

hgvyas123 · October 2012

awesome

ar2rsawseen · October 2012

@gorkem its controllable from lua, which allows to display, hide, change position and type of ad from Gideros lua and not in java code

gorkem · October 2012

So I modified the relevant dev faq link to point to the latter. Thanks.

Javi · October 2012

Thanks @ar2rsawseen for this plugin! I'll try it ASAP

nextgamevertex · October 2012

Thanks @ar2rsawseen!

KeepTrying · October 2012

@ar2rsawseen R cannot be resolved to a variable ?

mGLView = new GiderosGLSurfaceView(this);
//setContentView(mGLView);
setContentView(R.layout.main); //R cannot be ?
FrameLayout layout = (FrameLayout)findViewById(R.id.layout_main); //R cannot be ?
layout.addView(mGLView);
mGLView.setOnTouchListener(this);
WeakActivityHolder.set(this);

The project is set to: Enable project specific settings > Compiler 1.6 - default

Imported this and the error still there;

import android.R;
import android.R.layout; - thanks

Scouser · October 2012

@KeepTrying: R.java is automatically generated by eclipse. Try cleaning the project via Project->clean... This should create the missing file.

ar2rsawseen · October 2012

@KeepTrying did you imported import com.yourdomain.yourapp.R; in the beginning of file, where com.yourdomain.yourapp is your app's package identification

KeepTrying · October 2012

@Scouser and @ar2rsawseen :
With clean project and com.domain.app I managed to export the apk, so i got this error:

App start > show Gideros splash > close

1 - Added the lua code on main.lua

require 'admob'
admob.loadAd('App Publisher iD OK')
admob.setPosition(0, 100)
Timer.delayedCall(15000, function()
admob.removeAd()
end)

2 - com.google.ads.AdActivity on manifest.xml

3 - "You can simply copy contents of AdMobPlugin folder into your project folder"

4 - Then import needed packages

5 - ...

I was trying to see some information on logcat, but it shows millions of things i do not understand;

ar2rsawseen · October 2012

@KeepTrying usually you simple scroll through log cat and try to find the red text, which is usually an error.
Or you can share your project here

KeepTrying · October 2012

Selected only the errors:

http://www.m5gt.com/LogCrazyCat.txt

Create a zip of the project and send direct to you ? No problem

ar2rsawseen · October 2012

@KeepTrying basically your problem is here

10-30 08:22:41.270: E/AndroidRuntime(8308): FATAL EXCEPTION: GLThread 9
10-30 08:22:41.270: E/AndroidRuntime(8308): java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.giderosmobile.android.plugins.AdMob
10-30 08:22:41.270: E/AndroidRuntime(8308): 	at com.giderosmobile.android.player.GiderosApplication.nativeDrawFrame(Native Method)
10-30 08:22:41.270: E/AndroidRuntime(8308): 	at com.giderosmobile.android.player.GiderosApplication.onDrawFrame(GiderosApplication.java:393)
10-30 08:22:41.270: E/AndroidRuntime(8308): 	at com.giderosmobile.android.GiderosRenderer.onDrawFrame(ComplexRunnerActivity.java:220)
10-30 08:22:41.270: E/AndroidRuntime(8308): 	at android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$GLThread.guardedRun(GLSurfaceView.java:1432)
10-30 08:22:41.270: E/AndroidRuntime(8308): 	at android.opengl.GLSurfaceView$GLThread.run(GLSurfaceView.java:1185)
10-30 08:22:41.270: E/AndroidRuntime(8308): Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.giderosmobile.android.plugins.AdMob
10-30 08:22:41.270: E/AndroidRuntime(8308): 	... 5 more
10-30 08:22:41.270: E/AndroidRuntime(8308): Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.giderosmobile.android.plugins.AdMob in loader dalvik.system.PathClassLoader[/data/app/com.complexrunner.complexrunnerfree-1.apk]
10-30 08:22:41.270: E/AndroidRuntime(8308): 	at dalvik.system.PathClassLoader.findClass(PathClassLoader.java:251)
10-30 08:22:41.270: E/AndroidRuntime(8308): 	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:540)
10-30 08:22:41.270: E/AndroidRuntime(8308): 	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:500)
10-30 08:22:41.270: E/AndroidRuntime(8308): 	... 5 more

Check if there is a AdMob.java file inside src\com\giderosmobile\android\plugins

KeepTrying · October 2012

Yeah this file is here, what you recommend ?
You want the project ?

ar2rsawseen · October 2012

Sure, send them to my username at gmail.com or simply attach here to your post

KeepTrying · October 2012

Thank you, the project was sent to Yahoo mail;

ar2rsawseen · October 2012

@KeepTrying thats interesting but your app runs on my device without crashes.
Only thing I needed to do was basically to re-reference GoogleAdMobAdsSdk-6.1.0.jar lirbary, because I did not have it in your referenced location.

So how did you add the GoogleAdMobAdsSdk-6.1.0.jar to the project?
My recommended way is to right click on Referenced Libraries. Then choose Build Path -> Configure Build Path. In the Libraries tab click Add Jar and navigate to your project folder and add the GoogleAdMobAdsSdk-6.1.0.jar file. Then go to Order and export and check GoogleAdMobAdsSdk-6.1.0 there.

Maybe you missed that last step?

KeepTrying · October 2012

I'm doing maintenance on my pc and i don't have access to gideros,
i will have an answer in the morning. Many thanks to spend time solving this

Chang · November 2012

I can build the apk and install on device, but more than 50% of the time, while launching the app crashes with the error "Fatal signal 11 (SIGSEGV) at 0x0000002c (code=1)" from "libc" tag.

EDIT:
Tested with Android 4.0.3 and 4.1.2 with admob 6.1.0 / 6.2.1

ar2rsawseen · November 2012

That error literally does not explain me anything

Maybe I'm still not getting something right, unfortunately I can only test on Android's 2.2 and 2.3

omer · December 2012

Thanks for plugin, but how can I build libadmob.so myself. This is not part of admob sdk. It seems you built it.

ar2rsawseen · December 2012

@omer you are right, here is more information on this:
http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile/Creating-plugins-for-Android-in-Gideros

omer · December 2012

I checked your article and also https://github.com/ar2rsawseen/Gideros_AdMob
But I can not see source code for libadmob.so Did you add this project as another repo on github? If not, are you planning to publish this project with nice how to page?

ar2rsawseen · December 2012

Thats was probably the previous way of implementing admob.
In this article in download section http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile/AdMob-plugin-for-Android#download you can download standalone plugin, example project and android project with plugin source. The source for SO is in jni folder

thanhquan1512 · December 2012

@ar2rsawseen: sorry but how can we "control" ads from lua code, with an exported project?

I try export your Admob Gideros example to Java project then do as your tutorial but when I run from VM it suddenly closed without any error message.

this is what i get from Log Cat:
VM aborting
Fatal signal 11 (SIGSEGV) at 0xdeadd00d (code=1), thread 644 (Thread-72)

thank you very much

Chang · December 2012

@thanhquan1512 That seems to be the same problem I had when I run it on device.

@ar2rsawseen If you need to test this on Android 4.2, I can help. Is there anything I can do to help you to identify the problem?

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