No Banner Ad on Android

I followed the guide, everything works great on iOS.

However, when I run on Android I get strange results.

When running Android Studio in an emulator, I see "Test Ad", no matter what appId or adId I pass (I even tried overriding the default values in (/project/client/node_modules/capacitor-admob/android/src/main/java/app/xplatform/capacitor/plugins/AdMob.java).

When running Android Studio on a real device, I see nothing. Both promises of AdMob.initialize() and AdMob.showBanner() execute and resolve, but the onAdLoaded listener is never fired. Note, this listener is fired in the emulator, but just not the physical device.

I don't understand why the emulator or device would be acting differently. Any Advice?

As for Android setup, I added add(AdMob.class); to (/project/client/android/app/src/main/java/com/my-project/client/MainActivity.java) and

           <meta-data
            android:name="com.google.android.gms.ads.APPLICATION_ID"
            android:value="ca-app-pub-xxx~yyy" />

to /project/client/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml

Given I always see the test-ad or no add, I suspect this meta field isn't actually being picked up, nor the appId or adId set in the React app.

This could maybe also be from when I installed the capacitor-admob plugin, it didn't compile out-of-box. I had to adjust (/project/client/node_modules/capacitor-admob/android/src/main/java/app/xplatform/capacitor/plugins/AdMob.java) and replace import android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout; with import androidx.coordinatorlayout.widget.CoordinatorLayout; since that dependency was missing and I run AndroidX.

Thank you for this plugin! Doing this myself would've been a much bigger hassle. 👍Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

rahadur / capacitor-admob

No Banner Ad on Android #45