ShowFullscreenAdvertAdMob() dosent work

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haliop_New

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Posted: 10th Oct 2016 17:11

this command is new to me since the last time I used ads was AppGameKit 1.0 versions...
I have set SetAdMobDetails at start with the given string by admob site , set a new app-ad inside admob to get that string
I also use GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedAdMob() but it always returns a 0 integer...

maybe there is something I'm doing wrong
can someone show a working code for this ?
i'll add the string I got on admob for testing
using android LG g3
and have exported maybe something in the export is missing I don't know
it was a long time since Ive done this, so any help will be thankful

thank you for your time, haliop.

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Posted: 10th Oct 2016 17:27

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Hi haliop,
precisely yesterday I was making some attempts to see how it works, with v2.0.21.
Apparently it works over here, just with this code:

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SetAdMobDetails("your-full-screen-admob-code-here") // full screen advert
CreateAdvert(0, 0, 0, 1)
ShowFullscreenAdvertAdMob()

As you see I'm asking for a test ad (the last parameter), as AGK2 instructions say, 0 for a test non-paying adv, 1 for a paying adv.

I don't know for sure but maybe the problem is that admob cannot send you an adv? as far as I know sometimes there are not enough adv to send ...
There are a lot of users over here that can help you far better than me.
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haliop_New

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Posted: 10th Oct 2016 18:26

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can you post a full working code ? like with the loop and everything cause I cant seem to get this to work and I don't think its because there aren't any adverts
I think its just that I'm doing it wrong ...

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Posted: 10th Oct 2016 19:09 Edited at: 10th Oct 2016 19:11

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This is the code that yesterday was working for me..

SetAdMobDetails("your admob code")
CreateAdvert(0, 0, 0, 0)
ShowFullscreenAdvertAdMob()
do
sync()
loop

Apparently is not very complicated, let me know, halio.

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haliop_New

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Posted: 11th Oct 2016 07:42

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yep this dosent work on my end...

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Posted: 11th Oct 2016 08:48

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Hi Haliop,
I'm strongly guessing that the issue comes from the fact that admob is not always ready to send an intersticial advert.

As a first clue, you can check it here
https://www.appgamekit.com/documentation/Reference/Advert/GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedAdMob.htm

and more important than that, take a look at the admob website to the 'intersticial advertisement guide'.

I cannot copy the link as it is read on a kind of popup, but again, they said (the people at admob) that they don't use to send intersticials until your app has a good traffic... and depending on other facts as well.
That's what I understood.

So the code I pasted would be enough to have it working, maybe you can change the last parameter of createadvert by a '1', asking for a test adv., but anyway, it should be enough.
If it doesn't work, my guess is that the problem is not made by you but by the nature of the advertisement system at admob.
Best!

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Posted: 11th Oct 2016 09:06

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CreateAdvert() is for Banner Ads, and ShowFullscreenAdvertAdMob() is for interstitial Ads. You don't need to call both (unless of course you want both? Not sure if that is possible though, never tried)...

Simply calling SetAdMobDetails() prior to your do/loop, and then calling ShowFullscreenAdvertAdMob() when you want to display the ad should be sufficient.

You can call GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedAdMob() to see if an ad has been preloaded, however, if one hasn't, you will still want to call ShowFullscreenAdvertAdMob() as this will restart the ad loading process to see if any are available.

Note, there was a security vulnerability in AdMob which was addressed in version 2.0.19 (I think, might of been 2.0.20), so anything before this may no longer display ads.

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global ShowAdvert = 1

SetAdMobDetails("Your AdMob Code") 

do
    if ShowAdvert = 1
        ShowFullscreenAdvertAdMob() 
        ShowAdvert = 0
    endif

    sync()
loop

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Posted: 11th Oct 2016 10:42

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Thanks a lot Funnell7!

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Posted: 11th Oct 2016 13:39

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Try testing via installing the APK rather than broadcast.

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haliop_New

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Posted: 11th Oct 2016 14:26 Edited at: 11th Oct 2016 14:27

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CJB I have broadcast dosent work for me because I think my router so I export it always
I have also tried charboost ,I ve opened a new account and it also dosent work
my code looks something like this (cant share everything right ?)

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global ad3times as integer
ad3times = 1
SetChartboostDetails("###########","#####################################") // strings fetched from the charboost website all should work...
loop
// lot of stuff here
if playerdied = 1
   inc ad3times
playerdied = 0
endif

if ad3times > 3
   ad3times = 1
   ShowFullscreenAdvertChartboost()
endif

do

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Posted: 11th Oct 2016 14:53

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Here you go:

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function LIBInitAds() 

		select GetDeviceType() 
			case "ios"
				SetAdMobDetails ( "ca-app-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" ) //ios_admob_interstit
				SetAdMobDetails ( "ca-app-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" ) //ios_admob_banner
			endcase

			case "android"
				SetChartboostDetails ( "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx", "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" ) 
				setAdMobDetails ( "XX-XXX-XXX-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/XXXXXXXXXX" ) //android_admob_banner
			endcase
		endselect
endfunction

function LIBdisplayAdvertBanner()
//call this when you want a banner ad
		LIBInitAds() 
		CreateAdvert(0, 1, 2, 0)
		SetAdvertVisible ( 1 )
		RequestAdvertRefresh()
endfunction

function LIBdisplayAdvertFullscreen()
//call this when you want a full screen ad
		LIBInitAds() 
		SetAdMobDetails("")
		PauseMusic() //full screen ads sometimes have sounds/music
		CreateFullscreenAdvert()
		SetAdvertVisible ( 1 )
		RequestAdvertRefresh()
		ResumeMusic()
endfunction

I used Admob for banners and Chartboost for interstitials.

Replace the xx's with your admob/chartboost ids. Be sure to place a call to LIBInitAds() at the top of your code (before your game loop) , and then just call LIBdisplayAdvertBanner() or LIBdisplayAdvertFullscreen() only when you want an add to appear, not at every frame!

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haliop_New

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Posted: 11th Oct 2016 16:10

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thank you
it works now.

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Posted: 11th Oct 2016 19:20

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Haliop, you mean it worked with CJB solution?
could you please let us know?
Best!

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haliop_New

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Posted: 16th Oct 2016 15:46

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yeah the last solution is the one that worked for some time , then I tried it again and there were no ads
but maybe if i'll try again there would be more ads I don't know...

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Posted: 17th Oct 2016 10:56

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You're welcome CJB! I found it helpful to drop this into a debug function called during the main loop:

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print("GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedAdMob(): " + str(GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedAdMob()) )
print("GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedChartboost(): " + str(GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedChartboost()) )
print("GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedAmazon(): " + str(GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedAmazon()) )

It's interesting to see how long it takes for the numbers to change to 1, and that sometimes certain providers just don't seem to be able to supply an ad.

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Posted: 3rd Jan 2017 07:58 Edited at: 3rd Jan 2017 13:47

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My latest little mini game "Aaargh! Ducks!" calls for a full screen interstitial on a 12.5% probability on the game-over screen, but it has so far NEVER displayed a full-screen ad. GetFullScreenAdvertLaodedMob always returns zero. I suspect they're not serving full screen ads until traffic has built up for the app. Either that, or the full-screen admob commands are broken.

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I haven't done anything with interstitials in quite awhile with AGK. But when I did, I implemented a system that used all three networks (Admob, Amazon and Chartboost) with a check system that would use one of the three depending on which was available to improve the fill rate.

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Posted: 3rd Jan 2017 14:18 Edited at: 2nd Feb 2017 18:53

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Hey,

I use fullscreen admob and charboost ads on the game-over screen, both work fine.
I usually give them some time to load. When both are loaded, chartboost is displayed with a probability of 75%.
The ad details in the code are the test details used in the examples that come with AGK.

As soon as the game starts, I preload the ads with:

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	if GetDeviceBaseName() = "android"
		SetChartboostDetails( "54c6658f43150f144c4aa085", "a7938066bd8cadc2b0fbc711f3baa90c9743b5b0" ) // Android interstitial
		SetAdMobDetails( "ca-app-pub-6042722625366627/9628992965" ) // Android interstitial
	endif

@ GAME OVER, I call this function to show them:

// SHOWS ADS AFTER GAME OVER
function ShowAds()

local foo as float
	local r as integer
	
	foo = timer()
	
	if GetDeviceBaseName() = "android"
		if ( GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedChartboost() = 0 ) and ( GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedChartboost() = 0 )  // no ad loaded at game start? Request again !
			SetChartboostDetails( "54c6658f43150f144c4aa085", "a7938066bd8cadc2b0fbc711f3baa90c9743b5b0" ) // Android interstitial
			SetAdMobDetails( "ca-app-pub-6042722625366627/9628992965" ) // Android interstitial
			RequestAdvertRefresh()
		endif	
	endif
	
	// give ads some time to load
	repeat
		sync()
	until ( timer() - foo > 4.0 ) or ( GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedChartboost() = 1 )  // prefer Chartboost
	
	
	if GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedChartboost() = 1 and GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedAdMob() = 0 	// only chartboost was loaded
		ShowFullscreenAdvertChartboost()
		exitfunction
	endif

if GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedAdMob() = 1 and GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedChartboost() = 0	// only admob was loaded
		ShowFullscreenAdvertAdMob()
		exitfunction
	endif

if GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedAdMob() = 1 and GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedChartboost() = 1	// chartboost AND admob were loaded, so throw a dice ( prefer chartboost with a probability of 75% )
		r = random ( 1, 4 )
		if r > 1 then ShowFullscreenAdvertChartboost() else ShowFullscreenAdvertAdMob()
		exitfunction
	endif

RequestAdvertRefresh() // no ad has been shown, request reload
	
endfunction

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// SHOWS ADS AFTER GAME OVER
function ShowAds()

	local foo as float
	local r as integer
	
	foo = timer()
	
	if GetDeviceBaseName() = "android"
		if ( GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedChartboost() = 0 ) and ( GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedChartboost() = 0 )  // no ad loaded at game start? Request again !
			SetChartboostDetails( "54c6658f43150f144c4aa085", "a7938066bd8cadc2b0fbc711f3baa90c9743b5b0" ) // Android interstitial
			SetAdMobDetails( "ca-app-pub-6042722625366627/9628992965" ) // Android interstitial
			RequestAdvertRefresh()
		endif	
	endif
	
	// give ads some time to load
	repeat
		sync()
	until ( timer() - foo > 4.0 ) or ( GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedChartboost() = 1 )  // prefer Chartboost
	
	
	if GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedChartboost() = 1 and GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedAdMob() = 0 	// only chartboost was loaded
		ShowFullscreenAdvertChartboost()
		exitfunction
	endif	


	if GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedAdMob() = 1 and GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedChartboost() = 0	// only admob was loaded
		ShowFullscreenAdvertAdMob()
		exitfunction
	endif	

	
	if GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedAdMob() = 1 and GetFullscreenAdvertLoadedChartboost() = 1	// chartboost AND admob were loaded, so throw a dice ( prefer chartboost with a probability of 75% )
		r = random ( 1, 4 )
		if r > 1 then ShowFullscreenAdvertChartboost() else ShowFullscreenAdvertAdMob()
		exitfunction
	endif	

		
	RequestAdvertRefresh() // no ad has been shown, request reload
	
endfunction

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