AdMob currently supports SDK-less mediation for certain ad networks (Android, iOS). SDK-less mediation allows you to access demand without needing to integrate individual ad network SDKs into your apps. This means you can access additional networks for mediation without worrying about keeping third-party SDKs up to date.
To use this feature, select the “SDK-less” option when setting up SDK-less mediation. You don’t have to install or maintain any SDKs or adapters for a network you’ve set as “SDK-less,” however, you must still install the Google Mobile Ads SDK:
There is always a chance. Feedback entries with votes will help sell the cause. There are other issues than just updating things. Many other plugins depend on the Google Play Services library and we can’t just go throw a new one in it’s place.
We would like to use it as well. +3 votes from us.
As a general rule we would really appreciate if Corona can keep better pace with android SDK development as it does with iOS. Google SDK shows good progress and promosing new features (such as in app promos) in its latest releases and we would also receive much better treatment by google itself if we use its latest SDK.
Can you provide more context as to what you’re looking for. I had another poster saying we need to date to support mediation, the way you have it listed it like you don’t want mediation.
Mediation is one thing. There are many updates with the new SDK which I’d like to use. For example the ability to use Google play services for iOS, using in app promotions and more.
I feel like that sdk-less mediation and adMob mediation are the same thing, so i’m posting here. Correct me if i’m wrong, I don’t want to hi-jack threads.
I’m jumping here after discovering hot water: My App got some downloads in china and i saw that admob does not show ads there. No ads, no clicks, no revenues. A huge unreachable market.
As far as I know none of the ad networks available in Corona does work in China.
AdMob mediation will be a perfect solution as they’re partner with a big chinese ad provider, domob.
sdk-less mediation is only for only a handful of ad providers. When you are working outside corona you don’t have to do anything. Just integrate the admob sdk and you can add/remove those providers from the admob control panel. Corona could probably support this by just updating the plugin to the latest version.
For most of the mediation that you can do in Admob you need both the SDK of the adnetwork and the admob adapter. So for one app outside of corona where I am using Admob mediation for flurry appspot, I have the flurry adapter, the flurry ads sdk and the admob sdk integrated into the app. In my opinion (worth about a penny), i don’t know how Corona would ever by able to solution this type of mediation unless they invest significantly on some sort of control panel that at build time you can include random plugins and their adapters.
In any case as I write this on one of my non-corona apps I am using sdk-less. These are all the partners I see in my control panel:
Aarki (terrible support for me).
MdotM (haven’t gotten an impression yet that is higher than admob but I see the requests)
Drawbridge (haven’t tried it)
Smaato (very painful because the eCPM is not dynamically evaluated).
Notice that I didn’t mention domob. It is currently not listed as an sdk-less provider. It is listed under the normal sdk + adapter provider.
