Question

I did some updates to my application today but now admob dont work right and it gives me an error in the ad saying adview missing xml attribute "adsize". now the changes i made have nothing to do with the ads and they have been the same since I implemented them and worked

this is my xml

<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.notify.me.lite"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:id="@+id/mainLayout1"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:orientation="vertical"> 
            <com.google.ads.AdView android:id="@+id/adView"
                     android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                     android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                     android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
                     ads:adUnitId="id"
                     ads:adSize="BANNER"/>   
    <WebView android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:id="@+id/webView1" android:layout_height="fill_parent"></WebView>

</LinearLayout>

and where its implemented

public class Main extends Activity {
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main_webview);

    WebView browser = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView1);
    browser.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/about.html");
    AdView adView = (AdView)this.findViewById(R.id.adView);
    AdRequest request = new AdRequest();
    request.setTesting(true);
    adView.loadAd(request);
}

as you can see adsize is there in the xml file so there should be no reason why I should be getting that error. Ideas as to why this is happening all of the sudden?

Answer 1

No idea why its suddenly stoped working but whenever i use Admob i always put it in a seperate layout, with xml like:

<RelativeLayout android:id="@+id/rLayAdMob"
        android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="50dip">
</RelativeLayout>

Then in the onCreate function i setup the adView like:

adView = new AdView(Menu.this, AdSize.BANNER, MY_AD_UNIT_ID);
RelativeLayout layout = (RelativeLayout)findViewById(R.id.rLayAdMob);
layout.addView(adView);

I’ve never had any issues doing it this way, and would only require a small change to your code.

Hope this helps,

Kenny