adMob interstitial style ad does not show on devices.

Solar2D Monetization (in-app purchases, ads, etc.)
#1

Hello!

I’ve been working on adding an “interstitial” style ad to my app (already using “banner” type ads in app, without a problem), at the beginning the was a “problem”, I got a message saying “Ad request successful, but no ad returned due to lack of ad inventory.”, which I read that is normal in the first couple of hours after you activate the service, so I waited, and indeed, after a couple of hours I stopped getting that message, but no ad was showing up too.

So at the this point, my code does not generate errors, does now show anything out of the ordinery, except that no ad is shown, not on android, not on iOS. my code:

local env = system.getInfo("environment");   local ads\_appID2 = "ca-app-pub-xxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxx"; local ads2 = require "ads"; local function ads\_Listener2(event)     timer.cancel(ad\_timout); -- cancel a timeout set for the ad to do anything...     local msg = event.response;     if msg == "Ad request successful, but no ad returned due to lack of ad inventory." then        someFunction();     elseif event.isError then        someFunction();     end end   if env ~= "simulator" then     ads2.init(ads\_provider,ads\_appID2,ads\_Listener2); end   local showAd2 = function()     if env ~= "simulator" then        ad\_timout = timer.performWithDelay(5000, someFunction);         ads2.show("interstitial",{x=0,y=0});         --to be sure also used ads2.show("interstitial");     end end

As far as I can see, my code is fine, and it does not throw any errors, what could be the problem??

Thanks!

#2

Do you define ad_provider somewhere?

#3

Yes yes, my mistake:

local ads\_provider = "admob";

I just didn’t paste it in the code up there, as I mentioned, I have the banner type ads working just fine, and it’s the same ads provide.

#4

Any interesting news about this issue??

#5

Do you ever call showAd2()?

Rob

#6

Of course I do, I simply didn’t think it was needed to paste here the code the fires off the function, but reset assure I do.

As you can see from my initial message, I know this works, since at first I got the “Ad request successful, but no ad returned due to lack of ad inventory.” message, which went away after a few hours, to be replaced by nothing, no message and no ad showing too. As far as I can tell, the request is sent, the ad returns, but nothing shows.

Thanks.

#7

Do you define ad_provider somewhere?

#8

Yes yes, my mistake:

local ads\_provider = "admob";

I just didn’t paste it in the code up there, as I mentioned, I have the banner type ads working just fine, and it’s the same ads provide.

#9

Any interesting news about this issue??

#10

Do you ever call showAd2()?

Rob

#11

Of course I do, I simply didn’t think it was needed to paste here the code the fires off the function, but reset assure I do.

As you can see from my initial message, I know this works, since at first I got the “Ad request successful, but no ad returned due to lack of ad inventory.” message, which went away after a few hours, to be replaced by nothing, no message and no ad showing too. As far as I can tell, the request is sent, the ad returns, but nothing shows.

Thanks.