Admob in Android problem

Question

I am currently developing an application and decided to try Admob ads.

Unfortunately, after following Admob's guide (pretty simple one, good job on that) I get no ad, whether I run it on the emulator or on my phone (HTC Desire). The weird part is that the ad has shown a couple of times (I really mean just a couple of times), in hundreds of tries. And checking my account on Admob I see that there are 6000 requests from this app.

I started a new application, from a blank slate, with no changes.

Any clues?

This is what I have done so far:

• Added Admob's library JAR.

• Added these in my manifest (with a proper ID):

  meta-data android:value="axxxxxxxxxxxxx" android:name="ADMOB_PUBLISHER_ID" /  
  uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" /
  

• Created a attrs.xml file in res/values with this content:

  ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>  
  resources>  
  declare-styleable name="com.admob.android.ads.AdView">  
  attr name="backgroundColor" format="color" />  
  attr name="primaryTextColor" format="color" />  
  attr name="secondaryTextColor" format="color" />  
  attr name="keywords" format="string" />  
  attr name="refreshInterval" format="integer" />  
  /declare-styleable>  
  /resources>
  

• Added the following to my layout (RelativeLayout):

  • below RelativeLayout line, with the correct application name instead of xxxx:

    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.me.xxxx"
    

    and:

    com.admob.android.ads.AdView  
    android:id="@+id/ad"  
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"  
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"  
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"  
    app:backgroundColor="#000000"  
    app:primaryTextColor="#FFFFFF"  
    app:secondaryTextColor="#CCCCCC"  
    />
    

• As the above did not work I tried the following, but also without success:

  AdView example_adview = (AdView) findViewById(R.id.ad);
  example_adview.setVisibility(AdView.VISIBLE);
  example_adview.requestFreshAd();
  

Answer 1

Have you tried adding

AdManager.setTestDevices( new String[] {                 
        AdManager.TEST_EMULATOR 
});

to the Activity-class that is to show the ad?

If you're debugging using your phone you also need to add the ID of your phone to the array.