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How can I get device ID for Admob

My activity has a ListView and I’ve put an ad at the bottom. When I run the app on the emulator, I see the test ad. When I run on my phone, I get an actual ad. I want to test on my phone and not get real ads.

I followed the instructions on the AdMob site about looking in logcat for a message stating how to manually add the device ID to the AdRequest. The problem is this message would never appear in logcat. This is a RAZR running 4.1. In an SO post, answered by Aracem, I read that the encoded string is available in the Developer Options preference panel, and I found it. When I read the guide for this command, the format of the device ID was alphanumeric (e.g. “E83D20734F72FB3108F104ABC0FFC738”), but the value in my phone contains letters, numbers, and dashes (e.g. “MQKF-RB61-BBKS-E”).

I’ve added the encoded device ID into the XML googleads:testDevices and I’ve also manually added an AdRequest into my onCreate and use addTestDevice with this string. Neither work.

One thing that I’ve noticed is the namespace that works is googleads, not ads as shown in the examples. When I use ads, I get prefix errors in the XML. I’m guessing with the switch from 4.x to 6.1, the namespace changed.

I can make this happen with the minimal project where onCreate does nothing more than call super and setContentView.

Layout:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/mainLayout"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<ListView
    android:id="@+id/list"
    android:layout_above="@+id/adView"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" />
<com.google.ads.AdView
    xmlns:googleads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/lib/com.google.ads"
    android:id="@id/adView"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
    googleads:adSize="BANNER"
    googleads:adUnitId="@string/admob_id"
    googleads:loadAdOnCreate="true"
    googleads:testDevices="TEST_EMULATOR, MQKF-RB61-BBKS-E" />

Manifest

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="10" android:targetSdkVersion="16" />
<application android:label="@string/app_name" >
    <activity
        android:name="mainActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
    <activity
        android:name="com.google.ads.AdActivity" android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenLayout|uiMode|screenSize|smallestScreenSize" />
</application>

Answer 1

In the Logcat, you will find the device ID. You will see something like

To get test ads on this device, call adRequest.addTestDevice(“**”)