couple of Admob banner ad questions

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

Re Admob banner ads:

 

Q1. What height is the banner for iPads?  (don’t have one to test/try just at the moment)  Is it 50 per the banner size section here?  https://developers.google.com/mobile-ads-sdk/docs/admob/android/banner#size 

 

Q2. Does Corona use the Smart Banners approach described here?  https://developers.google.com/mobile-ads-sdk/docs/admob/android/banner#smart

 

Q3. Re laying out your UI I assume it is best to dynamically find out the position size of the banner and work from this to be sure?  

 

Q4 - Does Corona support “test ads”?  I see this mentioned in the Admob doco thats all.   I note in the Google docs they refer to using “test ads”? ( https://developers.google.com/mobile-ads-sdk/docs/admob/android/banner#test_ads ).  If not I’m not really understanding what the negative is to testing your ads using what will be the final setup, but before you’ve deployed live to Apple (i.e. just when you’re building then putting on your own device).

 

EDIT: I did note this was answered in the AdMob v2 API in fact (http://docs.coronalabs.com/daily/plugin/ads-admob-v2/show.html), but would still be interested in the pros/cons of using this.

 

“You should use test ads during development to avoid generating false impressions. Additionally, you can always count on a test ad being available. Set up test ads by passing your hashed Device ID to AdRequest.Builder.addTestDevice: AdRequest request = new AdRequest.Builder() … ”

#2

Test ads won’t get you banned if you click on them too much while developing and they should always provide you a banner where as live ads may not always give you an ad.

Rob

#3

Q1: It varies, apparently. Corona does have a height() method for ads, but you can’t use it until after you’ve instantiated an ad. 

Q2: Not sure, but many of my ads seem to fill up the space horizontally

Q3: Yes

#4

Thanks guys

#5

Test ads won’t get you banned if you click on them too much while developing and they should always provide you a banner where as live ads may not always give you an ad.

Rob

#6

Q1: It varies, apparently. Corona does have a height() method for ads, but you can’t use it until after you’ve instantiated an ad. 

Q2: Not sure, but many of my ads seem to fill up the space horizontally

Q3: Yes

#7

Thanks guys