Ionic 4 - cordova-admob-pro won't show ads after uploaded

Question

Trying to show banner Ads in my app

The Behavior

• Test ads show correctly in emulators
• Real ads show correctly in the Ionic DevApp
• Real ads show correctly when side-loading the signed app apk, prior to upload to Google Play
• Ads FAIL in both Internal Testing and Full Production Release (Google Play)

My Configuration

• cordova-plugin-admobpro: 2.35.3
• Ionic: 4.5.0
• Cordova: 8.1.2
• Android: 7.1.4

In my home.ts file...

      constructor(...,...,...,){
        platform.ready().then(() => {
          this.loadBanner();
        });
      }

   loadBanner(){
    let adId = 'ca-app-pub-634383******/*****';
    this.admob.createBanner({adId: adId})
    .then(() => { this.admob.showBanner(8); });
    }

I get no errors or warnings of any kind. Does anyone have ideas what's going on? My ads have been active in Admob for 3 or 4 weeks, so it's not a timing thing.

What's happening during the upload process that causes the admob plugin to fail? Everything else in the app works as expected.

Thanks

Answer 1

Ok... A day later the ads started showing up.