When you think of ads on Android, the first thing that comes to mind is probably Google AdMob. However, there is another option that you may not have considered: banner ads.
Banner ads are a great way to monetize your Android app and they are actually pretty easy to implement. In this tutorial, we will show you how to add banner ads to your Android app using Java and Android Studio.
The first thing you need to do is create a new project in Android Studio. Once the project is created, open up the activity_main.xml file and add the following code:
This is the basic code for a banner ad. As you can see, we are using a RelativeLayout as the root layout. Inside of the RelativeLayout, we have an ImageView for the banner ad and a TextView for the description.
Now that we have our layout set up, let’s write some code to load a banner ad into our ImageView. Create a new Java class and call it MainActivity.java. Then, add the following code:
In this code, we are using the Google AdMob SDK to load a banner ad into our ImageView. The AdRequest class is used to build an ad request. The loadAd() method is used to load the ad into our ImageView.
Finally, we need to add some code to our MainActivity’s onCreate() method so that our banner ad will be displayed when the app starts:
That’s it! You should now have a working banner ad in your Android app.
