Android: AdMob not working

Question

AdMob won\'t show in my app. Every time I invoke loadAd(..) I get the following errors:

Requesting resource 0x7f0b000e failed because it

Answer 1

In your layout file (activity_welcome.xml), the adview container (RelativeLayout) layout width/height looks strange to me. And I think it is useless in your use case.
Change from:

<RelativeLayout
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" >

    <com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView
        android:id="@+id/welcomeAdView"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        ads:adSize="BANNER"
        ads:adUnitId="pub-***************" />
</RelativeLayout>

to:

<com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView
    android:id="@+id/welcomeAdView"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    ads:adSize="BANNER"
    ads:adUnitId="pub-***************" />

Answer 2

Add this inside application tag in your Manifest file:

<meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
     android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version"/>

Answer 3

I don't find any issue with your code/layout. Issue could be with the Ads Unit Id.

I would suggest you to try creating a different Ads Unit Id

Hope it works.

Answer 4

You used wrong ads:adUnitId="pub-***************". It must looks like ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/6300978111 format. You can take it after creating banner by url https://apps.admob.com/#monetize/adunit:create

Answer 5

Just adding this in case someone else has the same problem as mine.

I tried using a new Ads Unit ID and that didn't work as well. In the end, the issue was because I was trying to fix an app that got suspended from Google Play and Admob had also actually stopped serving ads to applications with the specific package name / bundle ID.

Changing the package name of the application solved the issue for me.

Answer 6

Also Your package might be blocked by Google AdMob. If you received a email like this:

Hello,

This email is to alert you that one of your applications is not currently in compliance with our AdMob program policies and as a result, ad serving has been disabled to your application.

Ad serving has been disabled to: APPNAME (com.example.pack)

Action required: Check all other remaining applications in your account for compliance.

Current account status: Active .....

So now you need to change your package of your app. on eclipse it is package="com.example"