Curious about the Ads Interface plugin (Workflow, how-to) - Specifically Admob

newbie2018 · February 2018

First, I did read a number of forum posts here and have finally been able to show some ads using Gideros plugins

But I have some questions about how you guys normally use it? (correct me if I am wrong. Hope you don't mind I ask in one post)
Statement 1: 'requires 'ads' only works in device, not desktop player'
- At the moment, I have to comment + exclude the the file containing any 'ads-related' line during debugging. Only at the final stage (exporting APK to device), then only I remove the comment or include those ads-related file. Is that the way you normally do?

Statement 2: ClientKey and Ads Key are optional at the UI

Since we are able to specify in the code, so there is no need to specify in the UI right? Or if I fill in here, I could skip that at the code?

Problem 3: What are all these "Installation Android" guide for?

Sorry I have no idea what is this for? So far I am able to show the ads in Lua, at which stage would I need this?

Statement 4: I only need to call 'LoadAds' once right?
As observed, the interstitial ads only require one time calling of 'LoadAds', after the ads is displayed and dismissed, it would be automatically 'Loaded' subsequently, such that, I just need to call 'ShowAds' later on.

oleg · February 2018

that's all it takes

newbie2018 · February 2018

@oleg Thanks for your fast response again. The thing is, in my case, it does work even though I didn't fill in the keys...
P.S.: Sorry I may be a little bit long-winded... I would test this myself..

oleg · February 2018

@newbie2018
admob will not pay you
if you do not specify the keys
For each game, the admob creates a separate key

newbie2018 · February 2018

@oleg
Noted

thanks~

antix · February 2018

@newbie2018, with the whole "ads not available in windows player" issue. That kind of bugs me sometimes too

My current solution is to have the following code where I use admob.

DEBUGGING = true
 
-- ADMOB
if DEBUGGING then
  admob = {}
  admob.loadAd = function() end
  admob.showAd = function() end
else
  require "ads"
  admob = Ads.new("admob")
  admob:setKey(ADMOB_APP_ID)
  admob:addEventListener(Event.AD_RECEIVED, function()
    admob:showAd("banner")
    admob:setAlignment("center", "bottom")
  end)
  admob:addEventListener(Event.AD_FAILED, function(e) end)
  admob:addEventListener(Event.AD_ACTION_BEGIN, function() end)
  admob:addEventListener(Event.AD_ACTION_END, function() end)
  admob:addEventListener(Event.AD_DISMISSED, function() end)
end

So if DEBUGGING is set to true I just use blank shell functions for admob and if it is false then the actual code is used. This seems to work fine for me, maybe you could use a similar method.

The document you refer to is ancient and at some point in the near future it will be removed. Sorry for the confusion this causes

pie · February 2018

IMHO there is a better approach:
You can use debug mode (as from antix's post) to trigger demo ads, while you check if you need to load them at all with getdeviceinfo().
See here from Mr.Sinistersoft: http://giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/comment/44776/#Comment_44776

newbie2018 · February 2018

@antix and @pie
Really appreciate your answers! I didn't realize it could written that way. Gideros/Lua is really flexible

antix · February 2018

@SinisterSoft's solution has lots more code to tell which device type the thing is running on, mine just decides to use the fake or real code based an a single bool

@SinisterSoft's code is better for other cases however

newbie2018 · February 2018

@antix no problem

Yours do help me

oleg · February 2018

@antix

--easier to put in init.lua
 
 banner @ |admob:showAd("banner")|
-- banner @ |print(""DEBUGGING )|
 
 
--------------
--And there where the advertisement is simply put
banner

antix · February 2018

@oleg that will work but if you run that code in a player that does not have the admob plugin built in it will throw an error right?

oleg · February 2018

@antix Just comment on the required line during the debugging

 --banner @ |admob:showAd("banner")|
banner @ |print("DEBUGGING" )|

oleg · February 2018

to disable all rows admob

admob @ |--|

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