AdMob plugin

ar2rsawseen · December 2012

Finally, updated the plugin
https://github.com/ar2rsawseen/AdMob
and the docs:
http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile/AdMob-plugin-for-Android

DRS · December 2012

Wow wow wow!!!
Thanks

Scouser · December 2012

@Arturs: Nice to see my fix helped

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I will be publishing the Mobclix plugin during the Christmas break (RL just has a habit of getting in the way in the run up to Christmas)

ar2rsawseen · December 2012

yes @Scouser thank you for the tip

So this one can count as stable?

Scouser · December 2012

I think so as I have not had Flurry report any errors associated with the plugin since I made that change.

unlying · December 2012

May be i'm too much stupid, but it doesn't work for me. I can't run project in player, because it said i don't have admob.lua and other stuff. Even if i set ads to one screen it still available on all screens.
But main problem is about start project in player. How to do this?

ar2rsawseen · December 2012

@unlying it won't work on Gideros player as it is, you'll need to compile player with plugin inside on your own.
And yes it is an overlay over the Gideros view, so it will always appear, but what you can do, is to set visibility to true of false, when transitioning from different scenes, thus making it to appear only on scenes that you want

nat12 · December 2012

Hello,
I have followed the instructions here
http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile/AdMob-plugin-for-Android

the app compile fine but during execution it exit and the LogCat show this error message: D/Gideros(6117): variable 'admob' is not declared

what happen? any suggestion?

ar2rsawseen · December 2012

this is usually either because admob.so can't be found (check that it is in both folders inside libs) or you haven't added admob.so in the main activity as System.loadLibrary("admob");

nat12 · January 2013

I do not have any admob.so, do You mean libadmob.so or am I missing some file?

ar2rsawseen · January 2013

yep, sorry that was meant libadmob.so

nat12 · January 2013

Thank for the clarification. I do have a libadmob.so file in both libs folder, I also have the System.loadLibrary("admob") in the activity.
Any other suggestion?

ar2rsawseen · January 2013

and you have require 'admob' in your lua code?

nat12 · January 2013

yes, in first attempts I was using:
require("admob")
then I have also tried the syntax You suggested:
require 'admob'
(I do not know if there is any difference between them)

nothing changed, always same error...

ar2rsawseen · January 2013

@nat12 could you send me an example android project, that you try so I could check it out?

You can either upload to this forum or send me to my nickname at gmail.com

Javi · January 2013

@ar2rsawseen: There are some bugs in your JNI code in Flurry and AdMob plugins.
It's safe to store the references to jmethods but jclass references must not be stored directly (99% of the time it will work but soon or later it will crash). To store it use a global reference:

For example, in g_initializePlugin(...):

jclass class_local = env->FindClass(...);
if(!class_local)
{
  // error
}
 
g_class = static_cast<jclass>(env->NewGlobalRef(class_local)); // <-- Create the global reference
env->DeleteLocalRef(class_local); // <-- Delete the local reference
if(!g_class)
{
  // error
}

And delete it in g_deinitializePlugin(...):

env->DeleteGlobalRef(g_class);

Also it's very important to delete all local references manually (all references returned by env->New...(...) functions).
Theorically they will be collected by Java but in practice if you call them in a loop the stack will collapse.

For example:

jstring str = env->NewStringUTF(text);
env->CallStaticVoidMethod(g_class, method_foo, str);
env->DeleteLocalRef(str); // <-- Delete it

ar2rsawseen · January 2013

@Javi awesome and thanks, will try to correct it when I'll get some free time

SinisterSoft · January 2013

This plugin works much better than the other two I've tried.

But, can it do Interstitials? https://developers.google.com/mobile-ads-sdk/docs/admob/advanced

ar2rsawseen · January 2013

@SinisterSoft right now I'm implementing the suggestions by @Javi as we speak, might as well test the interstitials

SinisterSoft · January 2013

Thanks, that would be great...

You might want to fix the error in your instructions:

"android:configchanges="keyboard|keyboardHidd"

It should be configChanges, not configchanges (uppercase C).

ar2rsawseen · January 2013

While checking out interstitial ads I've noticed this comment:

Note: All publishers can run rich Interstitial House Ads in their own applications. Paid interstitial ads, however, are only offered to a select group of publishers. If you become eligible, Google will be sure to contact you.

So are you eligible @SinisterSoft ?

SinisterSoft · January 2013

I don't think so, not yet....

The Interstitial House Ads might be useful though?

ar2rsawseen · January 2013

Ok I've updated the plugin, adding what @Javi suggested and also adding interstitial ads

https://github.com/ar2rsawseen/AdMob

simply pass "interstitial" as ad type. To test it you may need to add your device as test device.

Search for tag:Ads in logcat to get your device id, you'll need to add. And then inside AdMob.java plugin file inside loadAd method, where I commented out mine
//adRequest.addTestDevice("545D828B0002576098659942B35646D7");
uncomment the line and add you're device id

SinisterSoft · January 2013

Any idea on how to display the ads in landscape?

Edit: Figured it out, I need to create a GiderOS player that starts in landscape with it's manifest in landscape.

vitalitymobile · January 2013

@ar2rsawseen any plan for supporting Admob in IOS?

ar2rsawseen · January 2013

@vitalitymobile sorry, I'm not in friends with IOS, completely!

vitalitymobile · January 2013

@ar2rsawseen me too

PaulH · February 2013

I'm baffled at the moment - I had the plugin working and it looks like just what I need, but now (perhaps due to updating the Gideros studio to 2012.9.9?) I get errors in (myActivity).java on these steps:

setContentView(R.layout.main);
FrameLayout layout = (FrameLayout)findViewById(R.id.layout_main);

The errors:
id cannot be resolved or is not a field
layout cannot be resolved or is not a field

I've re-exported the project, completely replacing my old Android project, and repeated all the plugin integration steps, and I still get the same effect. The R.java that Eclipse generates has no id or layout class, only attr, drawable and string.

Any ideas?

PaulH

ar2rsawseen · February 2013

@PaulH can you check that there is a main.xml inside res/layout folder in eclipse?
And that there is a layout with layout_main id there

PaulH · February 2013

The layout folder is empty, so that explains why the R class is missing it. Any idea why that wouldn't be included in the Gideros export?

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