How to display standard web banners instead admob inside the app?

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Silvia SuperStar Android Fan Posts: 54 Reg: Feb 06, 2014 Ibiza 540	confirm \| cancel 02/19/14 09:07 PM (11 years ago) How to display standard web banners instead admob inside the app? Hi all, I know how to add admob ads thanks to the sandeep "how to" documment. But i want to display a web banner promoting one of my apps instead admob banners. Any idea? Thanks Title Comments Hi all, I know how to add admob ads thanks to the sandeep "how to" documment. But i want to display a web banner promoting one of my apps instead admob banners. Any idea? Thanks

chris1 Code is Art Posts: 3862 Reg: Aug 10, 2012 Austin, TX 50,120	02/19/14 09:39 PM (11 years ago) I don't think you can do this with admob, although I haven't used it enough to really know. If you're wanting to alway display the banner for your app, you could create some custom code to show an image view equal to the size of your banner and display it that way. Or, you could use this approach and combine it with a random number generator so that the app randomly decides whether to use the ad code or the custom banner code. Takes a little bit of skill, but not too bad if you know what you're doing. Comments I don't think you can do this with admob, although I haven't used it enough to really know. If you're wanting to alway display the banner for your app, you could create some custom code to show an image view equal to the size of your banner and display it that way. Or, you could use this approach and combine it with a random number generator so that the app randomly decides whether to use the ad code or the custom banner code. Takes a little bit of skill, but not too bad if you know what you're doing.

Silvia SuperStar Android Fan Posts: 54 Reg: Feb 06, 2014 Ibiza 540	02/19/14 10:09 PM (11 years ago) What size is recommended for banners? I suppose i need to make a few. Comments What size is recommended for banners? I suppose i need to make a few.

chris1 Code is Art Posts: 3862 Reg: Aug 10, 2012 Austin, TX 50,120	02/19/14 10:18 PM (11 years ago) Hmm - not sure. If you're making a custom banner to advertise your own stuff, you can make it whatever size you want. If you're trying to match what an ad service like admin uses, you can always try to take a screenshot of one of their ads and use a photo editor like Photoshop to figure out the dimensions. Comments Hmm - not sure. If you're making a custom banner to advertise your own stuff, you can make it whatever size you want. If you're trying to match what an ad service like admin uses, you can always try to take a screenshot of one of their ads and use a photo editor like Photoshop to figure out the dimensions.

SmugWimp Smugger than thou... Posts: 6316 Reg: Nov 07, 2012 Tamuning, GU 81,410	02/20/14 12:54 AM (11 years ago) I do my own banners… of course, my market is pretty small, so I don't need a sophisticated system. I typically either use my own plugin, or modify chris1 or Susan's menu plugins to half height images, and then use those as my 'banner' across the top of my screen. It eats about 20 percent of the screen, and is a 'constant'. They end up being in the neighborhood of around 150 x 600 'displayed' but I usually make them 2x larger for Android devices, and let everything autoscale a bit… But like Chris says… it's really up to you. Are you planning to build for one device, or do they all have to work? Big banners on a dinky android screen is pretty miserable to deal with. Most android phones are big, but not all of them. The banners I rotate using a rotator script based on a webserver, that feeds banners that I place in a directory. I can't remember where I got it from; I didn't write it. But I keep a copy here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/115208762/rotateimage.txt just change the suffix from txt to php and plop it on your server in a directory with images scaled for your particular purpose. Cheers! -- Smug Comments I do my own banners… of course, my market is pretty small, so I don't need a sophisticated system. I typically either use my own plugin, or modify chris1 or Susan's menu plugins to half height images, and then use those as my 'banner' across the top of my screen. It eats about 20 percent of the screen, and is a 'constant'. They end up being in the neighborhood of around 150 x 600 'displayed' but I usually make them 2x larger for Android devices, and let everything autoscale a bit… But like Chris says… it's really up to you. Are you planning to build for one device, or do they all have to work? Big banners on a dinky android screen is pretty miserable to deal with. Most android phones are big, but not all of them. The banners I rotate using a rotator script based on a webserver, that feeds banners that I place in a directory. I can't remember where I got it from; I didn't write it. But I keep a copy here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/115208762/rotateimage.txt just change the suffix from txt to php and plop it on your server in a directory with images scaled for your particular purpose. Cheers! -- Smug

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