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How To Admob Native Android SDK Integration with Phonegap/Cordova in android studio

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Last updated: October 21, 2021

Google’s AdSense program for all web publishers to generate revenue from their content, for mobile app developers there’s Google’s AdMob ads platform to monetize and promote their web app.

PhoneGap is a great tool to convert JavaScript-rich web apps to the native mobile app.

I’ll go through a simple process that I came across to integrate the native Admob android SDK to your Phonegap/Cordova apps

Admob Native Android SDK Integration

Now you need just follow these few steps:

Install the Admob Android SDKDownload the Android Admob SDK, extract it, and copy GoogleAdMobAdsSdk-*.*.*.jar to the PhoneGap project’s libs directory.

Admob Native Android SDK Integration with Phonegap

Select the Project ‘File’ -> ‘Project Structure’ from the Modules.

Now select Source Tab to select the ‘+ Add Content Root’ Button and by opening windows Select Your GoogleAdMobAdsSdk-*.*.*.jar file

Select yourProject/libs/GoogleAdMobAdsSdk-*.*.*.jar

Include Admob’s Library

Add the following lines in your MainActivity.java right below other imports.

import com.google.ads.*;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;

Here, the first import contains the functions related to ads while the second one will help us in inserting the ads into the screen.

Configure your AdMob ad unit ID

Now, inside the main class of your MainActivity.java file, create a new private string AdMob_Ad_Unit like this:

 
private static final String AdMob_Ad_Unit = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";

Make sure to replace xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with your own ID as putting an incorrect ID there will result in no ads showing up.

Create the Ad View

Below the newly added string, add one more private variable adView of AdView type like this:

private AdView adView;

This will be the container for the ad. Now, inside the onCreate function, add the following lines at the bottom:

 
adView = new AdView(this, AdSize.BANNER, AdMob_Ad_Unit); 
LinearLayout layout = super.root; 
layout.addView(adView); 
AdRequest request = new AdRequest();

adView.loadAd(request);

This should be enough for the ads to show up on a real device. However, if you want to test the ads on an Android Virtual Machine, then you’ll have to add this line above adView.loadAd(request); and ads will start showing up in the AVDs.

request.addTestDevice(AdRequest.TEST_EMULATOR);

Make sure to comment on the above-added line before publishing the app for obvious reasons! So the entire code file should look like this:

package com.project.android;
 
import android.os.Bundle; 
import org.apache.cordova.*;
import com.google.ads.*;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;
 
public class MainActivity extends DroidGap
{
    private static final String AdMob_Ad_Unit = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
    private AdView adView;
 
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
         
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        // Set by in config.xml
        super.loadUrl(Config.getStartUrl());
        //super.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/www/index.html")
         
        adView = new AdView(this, AdSize.BANNER, AdMob_Ad_Unit); 
        LinearLayout layout = super.root; 
        layout.addView(adView); 
        AdRequest request = new AdRequest();
         
        // Comment this out before publishing.
        // request.addTestDevice(AdRequest.TEST_EMULATOR);
        adView.loadAd(request); 
  
    }
}

Final Steps

The last step is to define the newly created Ads activity into the AndroidManifest.xml file. Add this line in your manifest file after the closing tag of your main activity.

 
 android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenLayout|uiMode|screenSize|smallestScreenSize"/>

Now you must be able to see the ads when running the app in an emulator or on a real device. If you run into a problem or don’t get it to work then drop a comment here and I will help you!