Gdevelop: Can't make ads appear in my game

[Ardeye]

Describe the bug

Ads don't appear in my game.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create reward video or banner ad on admob.com
2. Insert app id into the properties, add unit id for some action.
3. Export the game to apk.
4. Start the game on a mobile device and trigger the action.
5. Ads don't appear.

Other details

• GDevelop Beta79 for linux. Android 9 Snapdragon 710.
• Tried only with test mode enabled. Heard that google can ban you otherwise.
• Waited for 2+ weeks after creating ads on admob.com.

[4ian]

Other games have been able to display ads so this looks like a misconfiguration on your side or at least unlikely to be a bug.
Can you quickly try without test mode? Have you double check the app id and add unit? No extra space/extra quote or something like this? Can you show a screenshot of your events?

[Ardeye]

Thank you for the reply!

1. Instructions for a video ad unit and app id.

1. Admob ad page.
   

2. App Id.
   

3. Unit Id.
   

4. Code. Added beep sound to test. When life goes to 0 it actually beeps but there's no ad.
   

5. Screenshot from my mobile device. Test mode is off. When you're out of lives and click to play, the ad should appear instead of loading the play scene. No ad.
   

[Bouh]

If you have a apk build i can test on my phone

[4ian]

This all looks correct... @Bouh you've done some work with ads, maybe you would see if there is an issue?

Have you tried in test and without test mode?

[Ardeye]

If you have a apk build i can test on my phone

Thanks for your proposal.
Also added bottom banner to test. This one has test mode enabled for both ads.
There should be 0 lives right from the start. They regenerate every 30 seconds while you're in the menu.
Please, turn down the volume. Beep can be a bit loud
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/gd-build/7d10f5b7-40f1-4393-bfcf-e364ba311f92/game.apk

[Bouh]

I've decompiled your .apk and insert keys in the AdMob example and nothing happend...
And this example is working with other keys. Then problem come from your google admob account i guess.

[Ardeye]

I've decompiled your .apk and insert keys in the AdMob example and nothing happend...
And this example is working with other keys. Then problem come from your google admob account i guess.

Thank you. I just registered my account on admob and created these ads nearly 3 weeks ago. Nothing else.

[Bouh]

I've seen nothing wrong in code or data when event are called. No extra space or extra quote.

You can try with my IDs. i use it only for tests, theses key are keys ID for production so don't use it in your app otherwise I would earn the income from the ads from your game^^

My IDs work well in AdMob example.

App ID
9428369419901842~1727526901
Banner
9428369419901842/2919121318
Inter
9428369419901842/8447779230
Video with reward
9428369419901842/6935209400

[Ardeye]

You can try with my IDs.

Yeah, cool. Everything works with your ids. Thank you again. Idk though what should I do now. Just wait or try to contact tech support on admob. Can't find how to contact support directly

[Ardeye]

Actually I suppose I haven't filled some information on my admob account. Hope ads will start to appear tomorrow :)

[4ian]

Hope it will work then :) Would be nice if you can screenshot (and hide
your personal information) the page where you've been missing information.
This way we could add it to the wiki as a warning so that it can hopefully
avoid the same issue to other users :)

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 11:53 AM Ardeye [e-mail] wrote:

Actually I suppose I haven't filled some information on my admob account.
Hope ads will start to appear tomorrow :)

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[Ardeye]

Would be nice if you can screenshot

I somehow managed not to fill in the Payments page :)

After that I went to a Home page and got a notification that my account is being approved. Something about 4 hours later ads started to appear in the game. And the notification turned to this.

GDevelop is more intuitive than AdMob) Thank you all for helping me out!

[4ian]

I've added a section "Setup Payments in Admob" in http://wiki.compilgames.net/doku.php/gdevelop5/all-features/admob

Thanks for the follow up :)