First if using Android Studio be sure to import Google Play services by going to the Project Structure and importing the Google Play services. In Eclipse be sure to reference the library inside of the project properties.. ========================================== Steps to get Admob Ads Working for Android 1. Open the AndroidManifest.xml Add the following activity at the bottom of the file before </application> <activity android:name="com.google.android.gms.ads.AdActivity" android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenLayout|uiMode|screenSize|smallestScreenSize" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent" /> 2. Decide which plugin that you would like to show the banner. In my case I used the BT_screen_customHTML plugin Open the .java file 3. Import the following lines import com.google.android.gms.ads.AdRequest; import com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView; 4. Go to this line: View thisScreensView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.bt_screen_customhtml, container, false); 5. Below this line add the following code: AdView adView = (AdView) thisScreensView.findViewById(R.id.adView); AdRequest adRequest = new AdRequest.Builder().build(); adView.loadAd(adRequest); 6. Go to the Res/Layout Folder and find the XML file for this plugin. In my case it is: BT_screen_customHTML.xml 7. Confirm that the header for the xml file is: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" 8. Below the </LinearLayout> add the following code: <!-- view for AdMob Banner Ad --> <com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView android:id="@+id/adView" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" ads:adSize="BANNER" ads:adUnitId="ca-app-pub-1111111111/88888888" /> 9. Replace the adUnitID with your id 10. Clean, build and view your ads :)

Great tutorial. BTW, do you know how set up Admob insterstitial? I'd like to show it every XX minutes on my app.. Do you know how to do that? THanks!

I mostly lurk on here......but dang has this helped me out so much! Thanks!!!

Thanks! LA

@Imagenpara web .. I haven't tried the interstitial yet. But I assume you follow the same steps but adding different code inside of the java file and I guess you won't need to add anything to the xml layout file.

Yes, I've done it. But I can't make it appears every XX minutes or maybe when a particular screen reachs 5 views (for example). That's what I want to do..

ahhh sorry.. you know I had some code to set delay for android. Let me see if i can find it..

Great! Thanks dude! Let me know if you got it :)

Check this post: http://www.buzztouch.com/forum/thread.php?tid=0DF4E6F2BC3A4E6DC0BF9B2&currentPage=46 Change the bit here: if(session % 5==0){ // add google code } session++; I believe this is what I was using. Try it out :)

Good, I'll try it now! Thanks!

Awesome thanks a lot!