are admob banners entirely broken on android right now?

It seemed like just weeks ago I finally got admob banners working “acceptably” (using the y=99999 hack to position them at bottom), but in the interim had them disabled for other testing, so haven’t checked them in a while.

Yesterday/today I rebuild same project (and a simpler “just test ads with same code” project), both of which fail to display the admob banner. I can see the request/receipt of the ad in logcat, but nothing ever appears on screen. (I even tried changing back to y=0 in case the hack mysteriously disappeared, potentially attempting to position them offscreen - no effect)

All builds have been with latest public 2189, but obviously have no control over the plugin’s version – am guessing(?) some change may have occurred there?

appID’s are correct, admob control panel still shows them as active, build.settings all same as before (plugin is there), and they’ve worked before, and as I said I can see the request/response is happening.

No errors coming through my listener, and no other “obvious” errors from deeper/more internal sources seem evident in logcat. In fact, logcat “looks” like everything is working, but banner never actually appears.

Any ideas? Thx

(aside: i’m not using admob interstitials, so no idea if they’re working or not)

I just built the admob sample app from GitHub and ran it on my Google Nexus 7 and I’m getting banner ads.

Rob

Interesting. I just built same sample and am _NOT_ getting ads. (Nor any errors, and can see request/receive in logcat, and everything else looks just fine, just as with my own app, but no actual ad ever displayed, also testing on v1 nexus7.)

Still, thank you kindly for your effort, because that means it must be something isolated on my end, I just don’t yet have any idea what it could be.

I just built the admob sample app from GitHub and ran it on my Google Nexus 7 and I’m getting banner ads.

Rob

Interesting. I just built same sample and am _NOT_ getting ads. (Nor any errors, and can see request/receive in logcat, and everything else looks just fine, just as with my own app, but no actual ad ever displayed, also testing on v1 nexus7.)

Still, thank you kindly for your effort, because that means it must be something isolated on my end, I just don’t yet have any idea what it could be.