Android Question Admob crash

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Pendrush

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• Mar 18, 2016

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Try to update google play services in Android SDK.

 

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Erel

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• Mar 18, 2016

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Don't forget to copy the updated google-play-services.jar to the additional libraries folder.

 

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• Mar 18, 2016

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It was the google-play-services.jar that I was missing - thanks! Now I'm not getting crashes, but I'm also not seeing any ads (on either the emulator, or a regular device). Will re-check my code later.....this might be a dumb question, but how would I go about checking a log file from a non-rooted device?

 

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• Mar 18, 2016

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You can use dummy ID for test ads, for banners test ID is: ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/6300978111
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Interstitial Ads dummy ID: ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/1033173712
Interstitial Dummy ID Source

 

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• Mar 19, 2016

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Thanks - I'm just getting error code 0, and not seeing any ads, it seems. Not sure what's wrong...any suggestions for debugging that?

 

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Erel

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• Mar 20, 2016

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Have you waited 24 hours since you started making ad requests?

 

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buddypepper

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• Mar 20, 2016

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I just checked it again after posting on Friday, and it's still just giving me error code 0 - that's over 24 hours now.

 

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Erel

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• Mar 21, 2016

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Are you testing it on a real device with non-custom ROM?

 

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• Mar 21, 2016

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If you use dummy IDs, you don't need to wait. Ads are shown straight away.

 

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• Mar 21, 2016

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With the dummy ids, I'm using the emulator. The real ids, I've got on a stock samsung device...no ads on either of those.

 

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Erel

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• Mar 21, 2016

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There might be a problem with your Google account.

 

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buddypepper

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• Mar 21, 2016

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Like what? I've had it for years, and it used to work with ads before Admob changed their API a year or so ago.

 

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Erel

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• Mar 22, 2016

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Not sure. Searching for this error with Google shows several discussions that also talk about account issues.

 

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• Mar 22, 2016

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Is there a way to turn on some detailed logging? All I can think of would be to use something like fiddler to watch the web traffic...

 

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asales

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• Mar 22, 2016

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I have the same problem, only in Sony Xperia MiniPro with Android 4.0.4
This is a new app. In older apps, I don't get this error, even with a new compilation.
Don't have 24 hours that I made the ads, but I tried with dummy IDs and get the same error.
The Google account is ok, because other apps uses the same account and in other devices the app don't crash.
The Google Play Services is updated and it in additional libraries folder.

I don't understand what's happen.
I have similars apps that works in same device and in other devices the app works fine.

Libs: AdMob, AnimationPlus, ContentResolver, Core, Dialogs, id, inAppBilling3, JavaObject, mwAdmobInterstitial2, Phone, PinchZoomAndMove, RandomAccessFile, Reflection, SQL, StringUtils

android:minSdkVersion="14" android:targetSdkVersion="19"

B4X:

** Activity (main) Resume **
main_vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv6 (java line: 572)
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: android.support.v4.util.SimpleArrayMap
    at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.zzs.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.zzs.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.zzb.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.zzc.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.zzf.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.ClientApi.createBannerAdManager(Unknown Source)
    at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.client.zzl.createBannerAdManager(Unknown Source)
    at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.client.zze.zza(Unknown Source)
    at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.client.zzab.zzdh(Unknown Source)
    at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.client.zzab.zzdg(Unknown Source)
    at com.google.android.gms.ads.internal.client.zzab.zza(Unknown Source)
    at com.google.android.gms.ads.BaseAdView.loadAd(Unknown Source)
    at com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView.loadAd(Unknown Source)
    at anywheresoftware.b4a.admobwrapper.AdViewWrapper.LoadAd(AdViewWrapper.java:118)

 

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buddypepper

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• Mar 22, 2016

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In the tutorial, at the very end it says "make sure that the package name matches the value defined in 'package url' in AdMob site."

How do I find my package url, and what do I do with it? I don't see anywhere that says where to enter it for B4a...

 

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asales

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• Mar 22, 2016

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My problem was solved with this line:

B4X:

#AdditionalJar: android-support-v4

Original post:
AdMob library

 

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Erel

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• Mar 22, 2016

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buddypepper said:

How do I find my package url, and what do I do with it? I don't see anywhere that says where to enter it for B4a...

Click to expand...

It is not relevant anymore. I've removed this line from the tutorial.

You can try to upload your app without publishing it and then click on the "link app" link.

 

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• Mar 24, 2016

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Hm - I've watched the logs using logcat now and I'm seeing this right around the time it's trying to get an ad:

W/GooglePlayServicesUtil( 1554): Google Play services is missing.
W/ActivityManager( 340): Unable to start service Intent { act=com.android.vendor.billing.InAppBillingService.BIND pkg=com.android.vending } U=0: not found
I/Ads ( 1554): Starting ad request.
I/Ads (1554): Please set theme of AdActivity to @android:style/Theme.Translucent to enable transparent background in interstitial ad.

For what it's worth, I'm using a smart banner - or at least that's what I thought my code was: "adView1.Initialize2("Ad", "ca-app-pub-xxx", adView1.SIZE_SMART_BANNER)"

Why is it saying that GP services is missing? Would that be causing this problem?

 

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