Very basic admob question

Bob_McD · February 25, 2015, 12:33am

I am trying to insert ads into my (not yet published) app. All I am doing right now is printing the result of the ads.show to a label named “rsltAd” that is in the position I would like my ad to show up.

When I run the app on my test iPhone6, I get a runtime error that says "Could not load provider (admob) : module “CoronaProvider.ads.admob” not found (and a lot of other error details).

I am thinking maybe my “appId” variable should be the actual “name” of the app, not the Publisher ID that I got from admob when I created my admob account? But this also results in a very similar error message.

During initialization, I execute the following:

local ads = require (“ads”)

local adCount = 0

local appId = “pub-415hugenumber787” – which is really a 16-digit number that is my admob “Publisher ID”

function adListener( event )

if (event.isError) then

rsltAd.text = “AD ERROR”

else

adCount = adCount + 1

rsltAd.text = "AD LOADED " … adCount

end

rsltAd = buildLabel ("-", X_LEFT, Y_ADBANNER)

ads.init (“admob”, appId, adListener)

ads.show (“banner”)

James_Sherburne · February 25, 2015, 1:40am

Your appId should look like this:

local appId = "ca-app-pub-1234567801920101/4358275647

Also, I believe interstitial and banner ads will each have their own appID, so you will need to initialize them separately if you do have both.

Bob_McD · February 25, 2015, 3:12am

Where does the app ID come from?

James_Sherburne · February 25, 2015, 3:17am

Through the admob website, under “Monetize”, you should be creating “new ad unit”. This will give you an “ad unit Id”. That’s your appId.

Bob_McD · February 25, 2015, 3:34am

OK, did the Monetize step and got an appID that conforms to the pattern you showed. However, still get pretty much same result.

Runtime error ERROR: could not load provider (admob) due to: module ‘CoronaProvider.ads.admob’ not found resource (CoronaProvider.ads.admob.lu) does not exist in archive no field package.preload[‘CoronaProvider.ads.admob’] no file ‘/private/var/mobile/Containers/bundle/Application/and so forth and so on’

James_Sherburne · February 25, 2015, 4:56am

Bob,

In your build.settings file do you have this:

settings = { plugins = { ["CoronaProvider.ads.admob"] = { publisherId = "com.coronalabs" }, }, }

It is required to run admob plugin. Based on the error you posted, seems likely the likely problem.

Bob_McD · February 25, 2015, 10:33am

Well, I thought I did, but I had put the plugin code into the wrong build.settings file (i.e., for a different app in a different folder). By the way, this is something that bugs the heck out of me about Sublime Text 2 – I have had this happen more than once.)

The main thing is: now that I have the build.settings straightened out, I get this:

Feb 25 05:25:52.065: ERROR: Builder failed: Undefined symbols for architecture armv7:

Feb 25 05:25:52.065: BUILD ERROR: There was a problem linking the app.

Check the console for more information.

Feb 25 05:25:52.065: “_OBJC_CLASS_$_ASIdentifierManager”, referenced from:

Feb 25 05:25:52.065: objc-class-ref in libads-admob.a(GADDevice.o)

Feb 25 05:25:52.065: objc-class-ref in libads-admob.a(GADGestureIdUtil.o)

Feb 25 05:25:52.065: ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture armv7

Feb 25 05:25:52.065: clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

Feb 25 05:25:52.069: iOS build failed (5)

Bob_McD · February 25, 2015, 10:40am

Found it!

Instead of

plugins = { [“CoronaProvider.ads.admob”] = { publisherId = “com.coronalabs” }, }

it should be

plugins = { [“plugin.google.play.services”] = { publisherId = “com.coronalabs” }, }

Found this in http://coronalabs.com/blog/2014/07/15/tutorial-implementing-admob-v2/

James_Sherburne · February 25, 2015, 1:40am