How To Insert Both Banner And Interstitial Ads In Android Applications

In my previous post, I have shown you how to insert AdMob Banner Ad and Interstitial Ad in your android app separately. In this post, I will guide you in placing both Banner And Interstitial Ads together. So, let’s get started.

I have assumed that you are using Android Studio for developing your app and your project is opened in it. Follow the below steps and copy-paste the code into your project carefully.

⟩⟩  First of all, you need to add below line of code in your build.gradle dependencies file.

compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:8.4.0'

after adding the above code you will get sync now option at the top right corner of the page. Click on that and wait for a few minutes to complete the process, once the gradle building is finished you are ready to go with the next steps.

⟩⟩  Now go to activity_main.xml file and paste the following code in your layout.

<com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView
android:id="@+id/adView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
ads:adSize="BANNER"
ads:adUnitId="@string/banner_ad_unit_id">
</com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView>

and in the same file i.e activity_main.xml add below lines of code in the header part

xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

⟩⟩ Then open the Manifest file and add Internet permission to it.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

⟩⟩  Now open MainActivity.java file and add only line number 2 & 3 in public class as shown below in bold.

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
InterstitialAd mInterstitialAd;
private InterstitialAd interstitial;
}

⟩⟩  In the same file i.e MainActivity.java add below lines of code in onCreate() method

AdView mAdView = (AdView) findViewById(R.id.adView);
AdRequest adRequest = new AdRequest.Builder().build();
mAdView.loadAd(adRequest);

// Prepare the Interstitial Ad
interstitial = new InterstitialAd(MainActivity.this);
// Insert the Ad Unit ID
interstitial.setAdUnitId(getString(R.string.admob_interstitial_id));

interstitial.loadAd(adRequest);
// Prepare an Interstitial Ad Listener
interstitial.setAdListener(new AdListener() {
     public void onAdLoaded() {
          // Call displayInterstitial() function
          displayInterstitial();
     }
});

⟩⟩  Then add below lines of code before the last curly bracket of MainActivity.java 

public void displayInterstitial() {
// If Ads are loaded, show Interstitial else show nothing.
if (interstitial.isLoaded()) {
interstitial.show();
}
}

⟩⟩  Now open string.xml file in values folder and paste the below line of code.

<string name="banner_ad_unit_id">ca-app-pub-3xxx256099xxxxxx/63009xxxxx</string>
<string name="admob_interstitial_id">ca-app-pub-3xxx25609xxxxxx/10331xxxxx</string>

AdMob ID used here is a sample ID. In order to get revenue, you need to replace this test ID with your own AdMob Ad ID.

If you don’t know how to get your own Ad Id then check the guide on how to get AdMob Ad Unit ID.

Note: Don’t use your real Ad Unit ID while testing and never click on your own Ads it is against AdMob Policy.

That’s it, friends, this is the correct and simple way to insert both the Banner ad and Interstitial Ad in your Application altogether. Just follow the above steps and copy-paste the code carefully at the correct location mentioned above.

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