IONIC 3 - Admob Free not displaying Ads when testing is false

Question

I have a problem with Ionic 3 when trying to display ads with Admob Free plugin. My Ads will only show in test mode (isTesting: true). If I set it to false or comment the li

Answer 1

I have faced this issue and some of the mistakes i did was:

1) I had placed my App-Id as my Ad-Id. You will get the correct Ad-Id when you create an ad instance in Admob

2) I had placed all my ad-configuration in the controller of my component, and what you are supposed to do is to place it in a ionViewDidLoad() method.

Answer 2

Finally I solved this issue!

Since my code seemed to be right, as the test Ads were working, I went back to my Admob account and found out that I had missing payment info.

As soon as I added my address on the payment page, my live Ads started being served.

I have tested my app on Android (emulator and device) and IOS (emulator only) and the Live Ads are being served with no problem on both.

App with loaded Ads

Answer 3

Finally i find the problem

you need to build apk as release apk, not production apk read this https://ionicframework.com/docs/publishing/play-store

i think admob not showing real ads for debuggble apks

Answer 4

Bro sorry for not helping you but from 3 days a go i don't know why my ionic doesn't work after installing admob-free this is the error i got while building app :

Dex: Error converting bytecode to dex: Cause: PARSE ERROR: class name (com/google/android/gms/base/R) does not match path (Com/google/android/gms/base/R.class) ...while parsing Com/google/android/gms/base/R.class