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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>

Admob banner adjustment on Android ListView

i have list view and i want to show ad banner in the bottom of this list view and also i have created space for this banner i.e android:paddingBottom="50dp", so i want to show ad on this 50dp space but now my ad showing on the above of this 50dp space i have 1 MainActivity.java and 2 xml file, first is activity_main.xml and second is single_row.xml. We know that there is no need to show java class because we set ad adjustment by xml.So i share my both xmls here and remember that i have relative layout not linear so there is no layout_weight option.
activity_main.xml
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/lib/com.google.ads"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#drawable/bg"
android:paddingBottom="50dp"
tools:context=".MainActivity" >
<ListView
android:id="#+id/listView1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true" >
</ListView>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/layout"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true" >
<com.google.ads.AdView
android:id="#+id/adView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
ads:adSize="BANNER"
ads:adUnitId="aaaa111122223333"
ads:loadAdOnCreate="true"
ads:testDevices="TEST_EMULATOR, TEST_DEVICE_ID" >
</com.google.ads.AdView>
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
My sigle_row.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/lib/com.google.ads"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_margin="10dp"
android:src="#drawable/img0"
android:paddingBottom="10dp" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignTop="#+id/imageView1"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#+id/imageView1"
android:text="Large Text"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
android:textColor="#FFFF00"
android:textStyle="bold"
/>
</RelativeLayout>

You need to set layout_above for the ListView to place above the AdView Layout, so that you can see all the list items
android:layout_above="#+id/layout"
Also, remove the bottom padding from the parent RelativeLayout

android:paddingBottom is used to leave some space at the bottom inside the View not to specify some space for other Views.
Now, remove the following attribute from parent RelativeLayout
android:paddingBottom="50dp"
And set 50dp to android:layout_height attribute for com.google.ads.AdView as below
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/layout"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true" >
<com.google.ads.AdView
android:id="#+id/adView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="50dp"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
ads:adSize="BANNER"
ads:adUnitId="aaaa111122223333"
ads:loadAdOnCreate="true"
ads:testDevices="TEST_EMULATOR, TEST_DEVICE_ID" >
</com.google.ads.AdView>
</LinearLayout>

Use a relative Container, inside that use layout_above="#id/your_adview_id" on your listview.
Add your adView below ListView and set its visibility="gone".
In your java, when the add is loaded, set the visibility to visible as adView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
I hope this helps :)

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.

android layout overlay issue

I am a beginner in android.I made a flash game android app using a webview and integrated admob ad banner but it is overlaying the webview.I need it to appear like this pic http://i46.tinypic.com/2cosrjp.png
this is my code :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/lib/com.google.ads"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/lay"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<WebView
android:id="#+id/webview"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" />
</RelativeLayout>
<com.google.ads.AdView
android:id="#+id/adView"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
ads:adSize="BANNER"
ads:adUnitId="a1513fab869115a"
ads:loadAdOnCreate="true"
ads:testDevices="TEST_EMULATOR, TEST_DEVICE_ID" />
</RelativeLayout>

add android:layout_below="+id/lay" inside you webView view
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/lay"
android:layout_below="#+id/adView"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<WebView
android:id="#+id/webview"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" />
</RelativeLayout>
add android:layout_alignParentTop="true" in ads view
<com.google.ads.AdView
android:id="#+id/adView"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
ads:adSize="BANNER"
ads:adUnitId="a1513fab869115a"
ads:loadAdOnCreate="true"
ads:testDevices="TEST_EMULATOR, TEST_DEVICE_ID" />

Even though RelativeLayout might be the first choice for many use cases, for this simple view I would use a LinearLayout, that's much easier.

i got the oppiste error, i want my app displayed as yours and i cant get it, i got the answer that u want.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout
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="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:weightSum="1">
<com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView android:id="#+id/adView"
android:layout_width="355dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
ads:adUnitId="000000000000000000"
ads:adSize="BANNER"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal|bottom" />
<WebView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:id="#+id/tropas"
android:layout_weight="1.01" />
</LinearLayout>
this is my code and display Aadmob on top Not overlaying webview