Steps in Adding

Banner in Android Studio

without using

Admob Activity Template

1. Add the following to your AndroidManifest.xml

• INTERNET and ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE permissions

• AdActivity, configChanges and theme.

2. Open build.gradle and add Google Play services dependency which is required by Admob

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:9.2.0'

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />

<activity

android:name="com.google.android.gms.ads.AdActivity"

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

android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent" />

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4. Add Banner ad to the XML layout

<com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView

android:id="@+id/adView"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"

android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"

ads:adSize="BANNER"

ads:adUnitId="@string/admob_id" />

3. Create your Banner ad ID string resource

<string name="admob_id">ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/6300978111</string>

import com.google.android.gms.ads.AdRequest;

import com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView;

5. Import AdRequest and AdView

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xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

Then make sure you have added the ads parameter in your layout:

6. Put the code to load the ad into Admob banner view (named “adView” in this case)

inside the onCreate method

AdView adView = (AdView) findViewById(R.id.adView);

AdRequest adRequest = new AdRequest.Builder()

.setRequestAgent("android_studio:ad_template").build();

adView.loadAd(adRequest);

create and assign an AdView variable to the ad view (adView)

create an AdRequest variable and instantiate it

load the ad to ad view using the AdView variable (adView)

by passing to its loadAd method the AdRequest variable (adRequest)

For adding Admob banner using Android Studio templates, click to see video at YouTube.