Android Question Admob Native Ads PersonalizedAds setting

sorex

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Hello,

Can anyone tell me how I can set the ad builder to personalized ads or not for native ads.
(I'm using the example code seen in this thread > https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/any-news-about-native-ads-advanced.88100/#post-562893 )

According to the admob site it should be this...

For the AdMob tag:
builder.setAdvancedOptionValue("personalizedAds", "false");

altho this fails

B4X:
builder.RunMethod("setAdvancedOptionValue",Array("personalizedAds", "false"))

java.lang.RuntimeException: Method: setAdvancedOptionValue not found in: com.google.android.gms.ads.AdLoader$Builder


but as I'm not used to javaobject it might be wrong what I'm trying to do
 

sorex

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Here


they mention

B4X:
The default behavior of the Google Mobile Ads SDK is to serve personalized ads. If a user has consented to receive only non-personalized ads, you can configure an AdRequest object to specify that only non-personalized ads should be requested. The following code causes non-personalized ads to be requested regardless of whether or not the user is in the EEA:

Bundle extras = new Bundle();
extras.putString("npa", "1");

AdRequest request = new AdRequest.Builder()
        .addNetworkExtrasBundle(AdMobAdapter.class, extras)
        .build();

but there's not really something mentioned about personalized ads in the Native Ads part of the api.
 
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sorex

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indeed, it is only mentioned on this page at the bottom.


and also mentions admob & ios but it's not clear if it is related to their android/ios admob SDKs.

my guess is that we need the same code that's behind the builder.NonPersonalizedAds command in the current lib in the loadAd sub.
 
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asales

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I use the native ads and I don't have this personalized ads.
Until now it works fine to me. See my example:

 
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sorex

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I know it works that's not the problem

The problem is that if you live in europe you must decide if it can deliver personal/tailored ads based on your location (ip/gps?).

If you don't want that you need to set that bit somehow.

For banners you can use the builder option but this javaobject method should be dealed in some other way.
 
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Erel

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y guess is that we need the same code that's behind the builder.NonPersonalizedAds command in the current lib in the loadAd sub.
The relevant code is:
B4X:
Bundle extras = new Bundle();
 extras.putString("npa", "1");

You can do:
B4X:
Dim rb As AdRequestBuilder = builder
rb.NonPersonalizedAds
'continue to work with builder
 
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sorex

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thank for the hint.

that resulted in an error tho.

java.lang.ClassCastException: com.google.android.gms.ads.AdLoader$Builder cannot be cast to com.google.android.gms.ads.AdRequest$Builder

do we need a traditional builder to set the flag and then continue with the JavaObject one?
wouldn't that create 2 different builder objects thus not having the flag set in the end?

B4X:
    Dim ctxt As JavaObject
    ctxt.InitializeContext

    Dim builder As JavaObject
    builder.InitializeNewInstance("com.google.android.gms.ads.AdLoader.Builder", Array(ctxt, AdUnitId))
    Dim OnContentAdLoadedListener As Object = builder.CreateEventFromUI("com/google/android/gms/ads/formats/NativeContentAd.OnContentAdLoadedListener".Replace("/", "."), _
       "ContentAdLoaded", Null)
    builder.RunMethod("forContentAd", Array(OnContentAdLoadedListener))

    Dim adreqb As AdRequestBuilder=builder '!!!!!!!!!!!
    adreqb.NonPersonalizedAds              '!!!!!!!!!!!

    Dim Listener As JavaObject
    Listener.InitializeNewInstance(Application.PackageName & ".main$MyAdListener", Array("NativeAd"))  'change 'main' with the current activity module name
    builder.RunMethod("withAdListener", Array(Listener))
    Dim AdLoader As JavaObject = builder.RunMethod("build", Null)

    Dim AdRequestBuilder As JavaObject
    AdRequestBuilder.InitializeNewInstance("com/google/android/gms/ads/AdRequest.Builder".Replace("/", "."), Null)

    AdLoader.RunMethod("loadAd", Array(AdRequestBuilder.RunMethod("build", Null)))
    Wait For ContentAdLoaded_Event (MethodName As String, Args() As Object)
 
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sorex

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no not yet. there ain't much to find about it unfortunately.

that npa=1 method appeared a few times but not really in a full "official" example.

I don't know if this is java or something else but it was found on stackoverflow


B4X:
AdRequest.Builder builder = new AdRequest.Builder();
if (/*Request non-personalized ads*/) {
    Bundle extras = new Bundle();
    extras.putString("npa", "1");
    builder.addNetworkExtrasBundle(AdMobAdapter.class, extras);
}
AdRequest request = builder.build();
 
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