AdMob won't show the banner until refresh or sign in to google plus

Question

I\'ve got a problem. My AdMob has been set up for some time now without any problem, but I noticed something wrong. Ad gets successfully loaded (i see message from ddms), bu

Answer 1

The above solution works. Even a simpler way to keep the banner shown is to set its background.

adMobView.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLACK);

Answer 2

banner.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);

This seems to fix the issue for me. Also be sure to run the banner creation code from within the UI thread.

activity.runOnUiThread(new Runnable()
{
    @Override
    public void run()
    {
        // all your banner creation code is here
        banner.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
    }
});

Answer 3

As nobody has replied with explanation, I'm going to consider this one solved. I just manually reload whole layout onAdLoad event. Anyway, this is just functional solution, it does not explain why it happens with Google Play Services AdMob.

adMobView.setAdListener(new AdListener() {

    @Override
    public void onAdLoaded() {
        super.onAdLoaded();

        MainActivity.this.runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {

            @Override
            public void run() {
                layout.requestLayout();
            }
        });
    }

});

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Also, as mentioned by user3263204, you can try this

adMobView.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLACK);

to solve your problem.

Answer 4

As user3263204 says, you can use setBackgroundColor to make the adview appear. You can make the background transparent, if (as in my case) you have the adview over something else:

adMobView.setBackgroundColor(getResources().getColor(android.R.color.transparent));

Answer 5

You can also requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE); and set to full screen and the ads shows.