Admob Banner Ads on WP8

CoronaCards (Corona in native apps) CoronaCards for WP8
#1

Has anyone gotten AdMob banner ads to work on the WinPhone build?  Info about this seems very scarce.

Looking at Google’s example, and an old thread here, I think I was successful, but I am not sure… in the emulator, I see a white bar where the ad should be, but I do not see an actual ad.  I also don’t know if the ad is updating.

Not having a Windows Phone, it’s a bit difficult to confirm.

Do ads show in the Windows emulator?

Thanks,

#2

@spacewolf was kind enough to write up a tutorial and sample code on how to integrate AdMob into a WP8 CoronaCards app.  Have a look here…

   http://www.spacewolfsoftware.com/blog/tutorial-add-admob-interstitial-ads-to-your-corona-windows-phone-8-app/

#3

Thanks Joshua,

I did look at the article, but it only mentions interstitial, not banner ads.  It’s a great article, but I don’t think it fits the bill in this case.

Looking at Google’s banner ad example, there is much less code required it seems, since SpaceWolf’s article is handling the display of interstitial ads instead of a continuous update of banner ads.

–john

#4

Google documents how to add an “AdView” to your WP8 app’s page here…

   https://developers.google.com/admob/wp/quick-start#adding_a_banner_ad

See the “Define an ad banner with code” section.

And the one thing you would do different is add the AdView as a child to your “fCoronaView” so that it would appear on top of the Corona view.  For example…

fCoronaPanel.Children.Add(bannerAd);

#5

Thanks Joshua!  Got it working…  I wasn’t seeing an ad since I had ForceTesting = false;

It looks like the ads are displaying. I assume in live mode the ads would cycle?

#6

Great!  I’m glad you got it working!  :slight_smile:

Regarding ad banner cycling, I don’t remember, but I have the impression that you might have to do this manually via a timer and their AdRequest class and AdView.LoadAd() method.

#7

Hmm… I will check into that.  I do get a test ad, but it does not appear to cycle, so I will do a little more research and review the Google example as well.

Thanks for your help

#8

@spacewolf was kind enough to write up a tutorial and sample code on how to integrate AdMob into a WP8 CoronaCards app.  Have a look here…

   http://www.spacewolfsoftware.com/blog/tutorial-add-admob-interstitial-ads-to-your-corona-windows-phone-8-app/

#9

Thanks Joshua,

I did look at the article, but it only mentions interstitial, not banner ads.  It’s a great article, but I don’t think it fits the bill in this case.

Looking at Google’s banner ad example, there is much less code required it seems, since SpaceWolf’s article is handling the display of interstitial ads instead of a continuous update of banner ads.

–john

#10

Google documents how to add an “AdView” to your WP8 app’s page here…

   https://developers.google.com/admob/wp/quick-start#adding_a_banner_ad

See the “Define an ad banner with code” section.

And the one thing you would do different is add the AdView as a child to your “fCoronaView” so that it would appear on top of the Corona view.  For example…

fCoronaPanel.Children.Add(bannerAd);

#11

Thanks Joshua!  Got it working…  I wasn’t seeing an ad since I had ForceTesting = false;

It looks like the ads are displaying. I assume in live mode the ads would cycle?

#12

Great!  I’m glad you got it working!  :slight_smile:

Regarding ad banner cycling, I don’t remember, but I have the impression that you might have to do this manually via a timer and their AdRequest class and AdView.LoadAd() method.

#13

Hmm… I will check into that.  I do get a test ad, but it does not appear to cycle, so I will do a little more research and review the Google example as well.

Thanks for your help