Question

I am having real problems understanding Layouts. I am trying to put admob into my app, but up until this point i have had no reason to use a layout. I’ll show you what I have in my activity class.

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    View tfview = new TFView(this);
    setContentView(tfview);}

I then proceed to have the entirety of my application written in Java, without the use of any XML. How to I put both this view and the Admob onto a layout? I tried adding both of them to the layout by doing this:

LinearLayout layout = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.linearLayout);
    AdView adView = new AdView(this, AdSize.BANNER, pubID);
    layout.addView(adView);
    layout.addView(tfview);
    AdRequest request = new AdRequest();
    request.setTesting(true);
    adView.loadAd(request);   

but I receive some sort of null pointer exception errors. Can Anybody help?

Thanks in advance
-Derek

Answer 1

Thanks to all of your responses. I eventually just read some other responses to similar questions and built my layout on programatically(if thats a word). So basically I did this:

 AdView adView = new AdView(this, AdSize.BANNER, pubID);

    FrameLayout layout = new FrameLayout(this);
    FrameLayout.LayoutParams gameParams = new FrameLayout.LayoutParams(FrameLayout.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT,
            FrameLayout.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT);
    FrameLayout.LayoutParams adsParams =new FrameLayout.LayoutParams(FrameLayout.LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, 
            FrameLayout.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT, android.view.Gravity.BOTTOM|android.view.Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL); 
    layout.addView(tfview, gameParams);
    layout.addView(adView, adsParams);
    setContentView(layout);
    AdRequest request = new AdRequest();
    request.setTesting(true);
    adView.loadAd(request);     

And it works like a charm. Thanks again to all of you.

-Derek