Question

Kind of a strange issue here: Whenever I set test mode via xml, I receive the expected test ads in my emulator. However, when I try to do the same programmatically, I seem to get real ads. According to the Admob documentation, these two methods should be equivalent, no? Here is my xml code:

 <com.google.ads.AdView
                    android:id="@+id/adView"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
                    android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
                    ads:adSize="BANNER"
                    ads:adUnitId="xxxxxxxxxxx"
                    ads:loadAdOnCreate="true">
    </com.google.ads.AdView>

And here is the relevant Java code:

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);
    AdRequest adRequest = new AdRequest();
    adRequest.addTestDevice(AdRequest.TEST_EMULATOR);

}

As mentioned before, if I insert the line ads:testDevices=”TEST_EMULATOR, TEST_DEVICE_ID” into the above xml code, I get the test ad just fine. Any ideas?

Answer 1

I believe you have to call .loadAd(adRequest) on the AdView object.

See Google’s AdMob documentation here

In the Adding a com.google.ads.AdView section.