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Make space for ads height

Hello and Happy new year!
I'm having a strange problem with banner ads height in my activity.
Basically the ads dimensions are 320x50dp but in logcat i can see it has only 320x0dp.
This obviously means that there's not enough space to load ads height but i don't know how to fix...
My contant_main is here:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto".
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:paddingBottom="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingLeft="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
tools:context=".MainActivity"
tools:showIn="#layout/activity_main">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/aboutLinearLayout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:weightSum="1">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_width="400dp"
android:layout_height="200dp"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:contentDescription="Header picture"
android:importantForAccessibility="no"
android:maxHeight="57dp"
android:maxWidth="57dp"
android:src="#drawable/xm"
android:layout_marginBottom="15dp"/>
</LinearLayout>
<ScrollView
android:id="#+id/scrollView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_below="#id/aboutLinearLayout">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/aboutLinearLayout2"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
android:weightSum="1">
// some Switches and textviews here that i can't show you
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
// Using this form to show ads becouse i don't want that it overrides scrollview when it's shown
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/layoutadmob"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_below="#id/scrollView">
<com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView
android:id="#+id/adView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
ads:adSize="BANNER"
ads:adUnitId="#string/banner_ad_unit_id">
</com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView>
</LinearLayout></RelativeLayout>
Any one knows how can i free up enough space in app layout to show my banner?
Thanks

Your LinearLayout at the bottom is under the scrollView, which is right, but the ScrollView height is 'wrap_content' which make it all the way down in the page.
Add an attribute
android:layout_alignParentBottom
and set it to true.

Android Admob ad not shown in Activity with fragment. Why?

I have an activity as follows.
I launch it inside another activity using setContentView(R.layout.below); However, below.xmlcontains a pager (which is a fragment and has its own textview, webview etc.). My problem is even though the Google Ads block is shown in the graphical layout on Eclipse and NO error is thrown when I run the java code shown below; I CAN NOT see the ad. I don't understand what is happening! I've tried so many things, including changing this layout to a simple relative layout. The following is how I call this adView.
setContentView(R.layout.below);
AdView mAdView2 = (AdView) findViewById(R.id.adView2);
AdRequest adRequest2 = new
AdRequest.Builder().addTestDevice(AdRequest.DEVICE_ID_EMULATOR).build();
mAdView2.loadAd(adRequest2);
This is the actual XML file that contains this adView.
<?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"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:paddingLeft="5dp"
android:paddingRight="5dp" >
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/home_layout"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_above="#+id/footerLayout">
<android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
android:id="#+id/pager"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
</android.support.v4.view.ViewPager>
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/footerLayout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:gravity="bottom"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
>
<com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView
android:id="#+id/adView2"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginBottom="0dp"
ads:adSize="SMART_BANNER"
ads:adUnitId="#string/banner_ad_unit_id" >
</com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView>
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

try removing the padding of RelativeLayout, also happens to my app, but got it working after removing the padding
<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"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:paddingLeft="5dp" <--- REMOVE
android:paddingRight="5dp" > <--- REMOVE
if you must use a padding, add it on parent layout of the adview, so it will be on LinearLayout

Give some heights to ad view it's height depends on device screen size it can be 50dp,120dp
use this if nothing happens then please put different size and try one more time
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/home_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_above="#+id/footerLayout">
<android.support.v4.view.ViewPager
android:id="#+id/pager"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
</android.support.v4.view.ViewPager>
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/footerLayout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
>
<com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView
android:id="#+id/adView2"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="80dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="0dp"
ads:adSize="SMART_BANNER"
ads:adUnitId="#string/banner_ad_unit_id" >
</com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView>
</LinearLayout>

Place adMob banner inside view

I am trying to make the ads look as part of the app by placing them inside a view with a custom background. This is the result that I want to achieve - actually it's a preview from the layout editor:
When I run the app, however, the background and the "Sponsorized" text are not shown. How can I make it work?
This is my current layout for the view:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical">
<com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView android:id="#+id/adView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
ads:adUnitId="#string/admob_id"
ads:adSize="MEDIUM_RECTANGLE"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Sponsorized"
/>
</LinearLayout>

Create an another inner LinearLayout as parent to AdView . Use this
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_margin="10dp"
android:background="#color/white">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_margin="20dp">
<com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView android:id="#+id/adView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
ads:adUnitId="#string/admob_id"
ads:adSize="MEDIUM_RECTANGLE"/>
</LinearLayout>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Sponsorized"/>
</LinearLayout>

Android: tile bitmap in ListView item

I am trying to add a sidebar image to some of the items in a ListView.
The image should occupy the full height of the item and be repeated vertically if necessary.
Stretching the image is not an option.
After trying a few things I ended up modifying the code found here.
Unfortunately, it does not seem to work within a ListView and the image is not repeated:
Main layout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:paddingBottom="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingLeft="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
tools:context=".MainActivity" >
<ListView
android:id="#+id/list"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
ListView item layout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#drawable/background"
android:orientation="vertical">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/listitem_sidebar"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:src="#drawable/sidebar"
android:visibility="invisible"/>
</LinearLayout>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textview"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="400dp"
android:text="Test"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"/>
</RelativeLayout>
Background drawable:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<bitmap xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:src="#drawable/sidebar"
android:tileMode="repeat" />
Background image:
Setting the sidebar globally for the whole ListView is not an option as I am using different View types for the items in my production code.
Edit: formatting

Alight, finally got it to work just the way I wanted. I added a transparent View below the TextView to force the ListView to measure the item's height and do a layout pass. Then I used the invisible View as an anchor for my side bar.
The only file that needed to be modified was listview_item.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textview"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="400dp"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:text="Test"/>
<View
android:id="#+id/dummy"
android:layout_below="#id/textview"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"/>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#drawable/background"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_above="#id/dummy"
android:orientation="vertical">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/listitem_sidebar"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:src="#drawable/sidebar"
android:visibility="invisible"/>
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
Here's a screenshot of the result:
I removed the code for my previous workaround as it was more of a hack than anything and didn't work as well as this.

ListView on TOP of Ads - Android

I'm having troubles showing ads on bottom of a listview, on my main activity the ads works, the only difference there is that I use a viewpager instead of listview.
This is the layout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<com.google.ads.AdView
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/lib/com.google.ads"
xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/lib/com.google.ads"
android:id="#+id/adView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
ads:loadAdOnCreate="true"
android:background="#313131"
app:adSize="SMART_BANNER"
app:adUnitId="MY_ID" />
<ListView
android:id="#id/android:list"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_above="#id/adView" />
</RelativeLayout>
The listview shows on TOP of the ads and of course can't be clicked, but this same layout works with a viewpager.

Another way.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<ListView
android:id="#id/android:list"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
/>
<com.google.ads.AdView
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/lib/com.google.ads"
xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/lib/com.google.ads"
android:id="#+id/adView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
ads:loadAdOnCreate="true"
android:background="#313131"
app:adSize="SMART_BANNER"
app:adUnitId="MY_ID" />
</LinearLayout >
When Ad - is loaded, get his height. Then ListView bottomMargin = adHeight and Ad topMargin = (-1)*adHeight. Try it.

Final layout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<com.google.ads.AdView
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/lib/com.google.ads"
xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/lib/com.google.ads"
android:id="#+id/adView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
ads:loadAdOnCreate="true"
android:background="#313131"
app:adSize="SMART_BANNER"
app:adUnitId="MY_ID" />
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/listview"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_above="#id/adView" />
</RelativeLayout>
And then replaced:
getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction().add(android.R.id.content, list).commit();
With:
getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction().add(R.id.listview, list).commit();

<ListView
android:id="#id/android:list"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
/>
<com.google.ads.AdView
xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/lib/com.google.ads"
android:id="#+id/adView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#313131"
ads:loadAdOnCreate="true"
ads="SMART_BANNER"
ads="MY_ID" />
NB This is a layout question. It has nothing to do with Admob. If you are using a LinearLayout then just set layout_height="wrap+content" and layout_gravity="1" for the item that you want to expand to consume the unused space. In this case your ListView.
Your problem was really the layout_height="match_parent"
NB I also removed the unnecessary renaming of the ads namespace.