After over 8 hours of trial and error, I finally have Admob in my Android app. I wrote a not so simple solution on my <href=http://tipstricksandhacks.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-to-add-admob-ads-to-your-buzztouch.html>blog. http://tipstricksandhacks.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-to-add-admob-ads-to-your-buzztouch.html

I apologize for the HTML. Not paying attention. After over 8 hours of trial and error, I finally have Admob in my Android app. I wrote a not so simple solution on my blog. http://tipstricksandhacks.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-to-add-admob-ads-to-your-buzztouch.html You can find the app in the market under the name OTR Gunsmoke. The screenshot has not been updated yet with the ads so you will need to download the app to see them.

Wow, been struggling over this myself, much thanks & will be following your guidelines soon Any ideas if this would also work with iOS source & Xcode?

Great job, you did what most of us were trying to do for a long time. Thank you.

I have no clue about iOS since I do not have a mac. I done all the editing in the xml files so if that is available in xcode should be simple enough. One thing to remember is that the banner is 50 px tall so you have to offset everything by 50 in your layouts.

@ gereghas: New rockstar!!! Thanks sooo much for sharing this and for posting about it on your blog. Huge help for tons of questions the audience has had for awhile. Kudo's to you in Ok.

Hey, thanks for your tuto, everything is ok for me BUT the ad doesn't appear on my device... Is it normal in first time?

Did you sign up at AdMob and enter your ID in the right spot in the AdView code? If you done all that, It may take a little bit for ads to show.

I followed the exact instructions and I couldn't get it to work, my app just crashes. i get the following classes could not be found: com.google.ads

@piggilypoo I noticed when I added admob that sometimes it does that. I will just delete and start over and it will work the next time. I don't know why. But for once my frustration of saying Screw it and deleting it all and starting over came in handy.

with this you can run ads along bottom like a footer without changing glob_tittle_dark hope it helps http://sfnent.blogspot.com/2011/07/easy-guide-on-how-to-make-money-with.html

Hi guys I have tried everything but can't really get Admob to work I follow the instructions below http://tipstricksandhacks.blogspot.com/2011/06/how-to-add-admob-ads-to-your-buzztouch.html http://sfnent.blogspot.com/2011/07/easy-guide-on-how-to-make-money-with.html#comments But keep on having this issues: You must have AdActivity declared in AndroidManifest.xml with configChanges Yet I have checked/edited/re-checked, edited, AndroidManifest and make sure that I have this declared <activity android:name=com.google.ads.AdActivity android:configChanges=keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation/> Anyone can comment, kinda frustrated here... Thanks!

Make sure there are quotes around com.google.ads.AdActivity and keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation and then a space before />

Looks like the forum might have stripped your quotation marks as it did mine.

Oklahoma, yes the quotes are present on my declaration, anyone else have any idea? I really cant enable Admob on my App :(

@ Redbullet - You have the latest admob sdk right? (judging by the error message, you have.), the configChanges declaration in the manifest has changed. It's now: <activity android:name=''com.google.ads.AdActivity'' android:configChanges=''keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenLayout|uiMode|screenSize|smallestScreenSize''/> (don't copy and paste - I've used 2 single quotes!) You'll also need to make sure that the build target is Android 3.2 API level 13 (right click project > properties > android) If you haven't got 3.2 installed, update in the Android SDK Manager. That should do it. Android is rapidly evolving. Don't rely on outdated guides to still be working properly!

Quote: Don't rely on outdated guides to still be working properly! Please, remember that one. I wrote that guide about 6 months ago. When android was still on 2.3.x. I will make a note at the top of the guide letting people know that it will not work as is.

@ gereghas - Apart from those small changes, your guide is still spot on! Still can't thank you enough in getting me started on making some money with apps!

Thanks guys, i'll try this

@Redbullet Did you get this to work yet? I am having the same issue. I've got build target set for 3.2 api 13, etc but still showing You must have AdActivity declared in AndroidManifest.xml with configChanges

What declaration have you got in the manifest? What's logcat showing?

yeah also having the exact same issue integrating. anyone successfully integrate admob into BT android app yet? If so let us in on how you did it :)

I have this in the manifest --- <activity android:name=com.google.ads.AdActivity android:configChanges=keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenLayout|uiMode|screenSize|smallestScreenSize /> Logcat says - 12-09 23:43:37.237: E/Ads(255): The android:configChanges value of the com.google.ads.AdActivity must include screenLayout. 12-09 23:43:37.237: E/Ads(255): The android:configChanges value of the com.google.ads.AdActivity must include uiMode. 12-09 23:43:37.237: E/Ads(255): The android:configChanges value of the com.google.ads.AdActivity must include screenSize. 12-09 23:43:37.237: E/Ads(255): The android:configChanges value of the com.google.ads.AdActivity must include smallestScreenSize. 12-09 23:43:37.237: E/Ads(255): You must have AdActivity declared in AndroidManifest.xml with configChanges.

I am including the double quotes to the above as well -- apparently forum here strips them.

I've got the ads showing in the emulator!! I had this in the manifest <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion=13 /> based on a tutorial I was following. I deleted it from the manifest and now ads show. Now I just need to figure out how to get the banner from hidding one of my rows.

@darksoftmobile just go into the buzztouch control pannel and add a custom text or something to the list it will push the last item up and it will get covered by banner...

@Lyle Thanks! That trick works great.

which tut did you follow, do you have a link i can peruse where in the code can i change this to get ads on the emulator to show? I had this in the manifest <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion=13 /> based on a tutorial I was following. I deleted it from the manifest and now ads show.