How to programatically turn off an admob ad in Android?

Question

I am writing an Android game and will be implementing Admob ads. My question is this - can I write code to switch an Admob ad off after it has been loaded, or do I have to have multiple activities in the app and attach the ad to one of these? (it would be much simpler to just have 1 activity in this particular app)

If I cannot shut it off, is there any necessary shut-down operation I should be performing when traversing from the activity with the ad to another activity, in order to ensure that the 2nd activity does not show an ad?

Note;

https://developers.google.com/admob/android/quick-start https://developers.google.com/admob/android/ad-events

Might be a possiible solution :http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4549401/correctly-disable-admob-ads — Prateek Yadav, Sep 29 '15 at 07:54
you can try using `ad.IsActivated` and `ad.pause` or from the second link you wrote, inside `onAdLoaded()` handle it. — LamaTo, Sep 29 '15 at 08:01
I think these show methods for doing it - but do these count as separate impressions? (and is this allowed by the Admob policy?) — Super Hacker, Sep 29 '15 at 08:05
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4549401/correctly-disable-admob-ads — Super Hacker, Sep 29 '15 at 08:05
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10272493/how-to-hide-disable-admob-adview — Super Hacker, Sep 29 '15 at 08:06

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 30 '15 at 23:29

If you have several view in which you expect the user to spend enough time for ads to be worthwhile then you are nest off having them in a single Activity that uses Fragments to switch the views.

That way you can keep your AdView either in the Activity itself or in a Fragment that does does change.

Super Hacker · Answer 2 · 2015-10-05T14:10:56.620

I ended up solving my app issues without solving this problem - it turned out that the reason my app was crashing when it traversed menus was that I had forgotten to set 0 as the minimum time for the app to sleep between frames, which caused an IllegalArgumentException (I didn't pick this up earlier as I was having difficulties with logcat). Of course, feel free to post any information for those who are interested.

How to programatically turn off an admob ad in Android?

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