Question

I have followed a few tutorials / stackoverflow threads to learn how to add an Admob banner to the bottom of my UI.

I have added the adMob sdk to the lib, added the following to the XML for the UI that I want to show the ad on

<RelativeLayout 
      xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
      xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" 
      xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/lib/com.google.ads"     
      android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
      android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
      android:background="#000000">      


<com.google.ads.AdView 
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:id="@+id/adMob"
  android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
  ads:adUnitId="YOUR AdMob publisher ID"
  ads:adSize="BANNER"/> 

I then add the following to my java code for this UI

AdView adview = (AdView)findViewById(R.id.adView);  
AdRequest re = new AdRequest();  
re.setTesting(true);  
adview.loadAd(re); 

The problem I have is that I have no xml called "adView". I’ve tried a few different versions of the Java code (each tutorial is a bit different) but all result in a similar java error. What am I missing?

Answer 1

You haven’t got any R.id.adView (at least in the code you paste), you have to use R.id.adMob, because this is the view’s ID.
You have to add this to your Layout file:

xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/lib/com.google.ads"