Ads Interface - Support for AdMob "Rewarded Video Ads" or use another service?

TheCrypto · November 2017

Hi everyone, I've been using Gideros for almost 6 years now, it's an excellent framework and I'am very happy how it has been improved over time: big up to the devs! Personally, I've used it only for small games and stuff, nothing worth of being published in the stores, because I've never had the opportunity (and the right idea) for a good game concept.
Btw, some weeks ago that suddenly changed and now I'm finally developing my first game that (hopefully) will reach the stores!

Since I'm planning to insert some Ads and after reading some papers about the performance of various Mobile Ads Services here in Italy (yay, pizza) I decided to go with Google's AdMob banner and video ads.

Now comes the problem: (apparently) in the Ads Interface Plugin that comes with Gideros there is no support for the latter (the video ads).

After some research I also found this discussion AdMob mediation: reward ads but with no further updates about the integration.

Now I've two choices:
* Find a way to implement the AdMob's video ads (or use an implementation that already exists, if so).
* Use another service (which are less popular here in Italy like Vungle or AdColony).

What do you suggest me to do?

Thanks in advance,
Davide

oleg · November 2017

I use "Interstitial" video ads - it works

SinisterSoft · November 2017

If you look at the admob plugin code then it might not be that hard to add rewards ads - the actual ads plugin system supports rewards.

hgy29 · November 2017

IIRC someone added rewarded videos for admob recently, so it should work

TheCrypto · November 2017

I use "Interstitial" video ads - it works

Yeah, but it's not the same, I was looking for an actual reward video ad.

If you look at the admob plugin code then it might not be that hard to add rewards ads - the actual ads plugin system supports rewards.

Yep, I know that it won't be that difficult but I thought it was already implemented in some way. (Which it is)

IIRC someone added rewarded videos for admob recently, so it should work

That's great! In fact after some digging in the java source of the Ads plugin I found the "rewarded" adType.. and IT WORKS!

Here's the test code if someone in the future will face this problem again:

require "ads"
admob=Ads.new("admob")
-- AdMob's testing key
admob:setKey("ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/1033173712")
 
-- Let's load the video Ad with the testing UnitId that Google provides us for test purposes
admob:loadAd("rewarded", "ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/5224354917") 
 
-- Some debug events.. just in case something goes wrong
admob:addEventListener(Event.AD_DISPLAYED, function (event) 
	print("AD_DISPLAYED. AD_TYPE: " .. event.type)
end)
 
admob:addEventListener(Event.AD_ERROR, function (event) 
	print("AD_ERROR. AD_TYPE: " .. event.type .. " Error: " .. event.error)
end)
 
admob:addEventListener(Event.AD_FAILED, function (event) 
	print("AD_FAILED. AD_TYPE: " .. event.type .. " Error: " .. event.error)
end)
 
admob:addEventListener(Event.AD_RECEIVED, function (event) 
	print("AD_RECEIVED. AD_TYPE: " .. event.type)
	if(event.type=="rewarded")then
		print("Video loaded, showing it.")
		admob:showAd("rewarded", "ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/5224354917")
	end
end)
 
admob:addEventListener(Event.AD_DISMISSED, function (event) 
	print("AD_DISMISSED. AD_TYPE: " .. event.type)
	if(event.type=="rewarded")then
		print("Video dismissed.")
	end
end)
 
admob:addEventListener(Event.AD_REWARDED, function (event) 
	print("AD_REWARDED. AD_TYPE: " .. event.type)
	if(event.type=="rewarded")then
		print("Video rewarded, yay!")
	end
end)

The documentation should be updated too.

Thanks to everyone!

antix · May 2018

So the documentation hasn't been updated?

dreiko65 · June 2018

So what is the reward callback? I mean how do we know that the user actually saw the ad till the end?

TheCrypto · June 2018

dreiko65 said:
So what is the reward callback? I mean how do we know that the user actually saw the ad till the end?

When the rewarded ad is closed, regardless of the result, Event.AD_DISMISSED is fired.
When it's closed and rewarded Event.AD_REWARDED (in addition to the AD_DISMISSED event) is fired.

I'm updating the example code above too.

antix · July 2018

Was the plugin updated to handle Rewarded Video? When I add the plugin to my project and go to it's properties.. there is no field to put my admob rewarded video key.

TheCrypto · July 2018

antix said:
Was the plugin updated to handle Rewarded Video? When I add the plugin to my project and go to it's properties.. there is no field to put my admob rewarded video key.

Just follow my example code above, the rewarded video key is set when I need to load the ad:

-- Let's load the video Ad with the testing UnitId that Google provides us for test purposes
admob:loadAd("rewarded", "ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/5224354917")

And then, when it's done loading, I show it:

admob:addEventListener(Event.AD_RECEIVED, function (event) 
	print("AD_RECEIVED. AD_TYPE: " .. event.type)
	if(event.type=="rewarded")then
		print("Video loaded, showing it.")
		admob:showAd("rewarded", "ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/5224354917")
	end
end)

antix · July 2018

@TheCrypto thanks, I got it working.. until admob banned my account for looking at rewarded video adverts in my own damn game

Apollo14 · July 2018

antix said:
@TheCrypto thanks, I got it working.. until admob banned my account for looking at rewarded video adverts in my own damn game

require "ads"
admob=Ads.new("admob")
admob:enableTesting(true)

TheCrypto · July 2018

antix said:
@TheCrypto thanks, I got it working.. until admob banned my account for looking at rewarded video adverts in my own damn game

You should always use the test unitId provided by Google when developing an app, otherwise you'll risk being banned for improper use.

Apollo14 said:
antix said:
@TheCrypto thanks, I got it working.. until admob banned my account for looking at rewarded video adverts in my own damn game
require "ads"
admob=Ads.new("admob")
admob:enableTesting(true)

I don't think this is enough since AdMob requires a specific unitId for each ad you wanna show. (Better be safe than sorry)

Here you can find all the testing unitId(s) provided by Google: https://developers.google.com/admob/android/test-ads

totebo · July 2018

That's great info @TheCrypto, hadn't seen the test unitIDs before.

SinisterSoft · July 2018

Same here. I may try admob now.

totebo · July 2018

Admob is the best (and only?) network for banners. Also pretty good for rewarded ads.

antix · July 2018

@TheCrypto thanks for the links. My account is suspended so I won't bother. As I said previously I won't use admob again if I can't even play my own games LOL

SinisterSoft · July 2018

If you add facebook or play login then check for your id in the code - if you then go into test mode - then you can release a game and also play it yourself.

oleg · August 2018

TheCrypto said:

I don't think this is enough since AdMob requires a specific unitId for each ad you wanna show. (Better be safe than sorry)

It's enough

if you add
admob: enableTesting (true)
The admob will not hit the advertisement, but the test banner

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