How to implement Native Ads without MediaView

Question

I want to implement Native Ads in RecyclerView without MediaView, So referred to this tutorial after following this I successfully implemented native ads in RecyclerView but my need is to load only icon, heading, advertiser and call to action button not the MediaView, etc.

So I removed the MediView and other elements Code from the implementation which I made after which the code looks like this

UnifiedNativeAdViewHolder.java

package com.mishracodes.myapplication;

import android.view.View;
import androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView;
import com.google.android.gms.ads.formats.UnifiedNativeAdView;
public class UnifiedNativeAdViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
    private UnifiedNativeAdView adView;
    public UnifiedNativeAdView getAdView() {
        return adView;
    }
    UnifiedNativeAdViewHolder(View view) {
        super(view);
        adView = view.findViewById(R.id.ad_view);
        adView.setHeadlineView(adView.findViewById(R.id.ad_headline));
        adView.setCallToActionView(adView.findViewById(R.id.ad_call_to_action));
        adView.setIconView(adView.findViewById(R.id.ad_icon));
        adView.setAdvertiserView(adView.findViewById(R.id.ad_advertiser));
    }
}

and inside the RecyclerViewAdapter.java the part of code which manages NativeAdView

private void populateNativeAdView(UnifiedNativeAd nativeAd,
                                      UnifiedNativeAdView adView) {
        ((TextView) adView.getHeadlineView()).setText(nativeAd.getHeadline());
        ((Button) adView.getCallToActionView()).setText(nativeAd.getCallToAction());
        NativeAd.Image icon = nativeAd.getIcon();

        if (icon == null) {
            adView.getIconView().setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
        } else {
            ((ImageView) adView.getIconView()).setImageDrawable(icon.getDrawable());
            adView.getIconView().setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        }
        if (nativeAd.getAdvertiser() == null) {
            adView.getAdvertiserView().setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
        } else {
            ((TextView) adView.getAdvertiserView()).setText(nativeAd.getAdvertiser());
            adView.getAdvertiserView().setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        }
        adView.setNativeAd(nativeAd);
    }

loading Native Ad function in MainActivity.java


    private void loadNativeAds() {

        AdLoader.Builder builder = new AdLoader.Builder(this, getString(R.string.ad_unit_id));
        adLoader = builder.forUnifiedNativeAd(
                new UnifiedNativeAd.OnUnifiedNativeAdLoadedListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onUnifiedNativeAdLoaded(UnifiedNativeAd unifiedNativeAd) {
                        mNativeAds.add(unifiedNativeAd);
                        if (!adLoader.isLoading()) {
                            insertAdsInMenuItems();
                        }
                    }
                }).withAdListener(
                new AdListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onAdFailedToLoad(int errorCode) {
                        Log.d("MainActivity", "The previous native ad failed to load. Attempting to"
                                + " load another.");
                        if (!adLoader.isLoading()) {
                            insertAdsInMenuItems();
                        }
                    }
                }).build();
        adLoader.loadAds(new AdRequest.Builder().build(), NUMBER_OF_ADS);
    }

Now after doing this I used Native Ad Validator to validate if the ads are implemented correctly Result:

But After testing it for sometime I got this error

Warning in detail

So Is there any way to Call for Loading Native Ad so that only those ads are called which do not have Media View. As I have Seen Many Apps which uses native ads like this without Media View.

Can you tell me how did you use this AdMob native ads validator because I searched a lot I couldn't find it so please tell me how do you do that because I also want to validate my ad — Harsh Kothari, Nov 19 '20 at 14:55
@TECHSMASH add this **** inside application tag in AndroidManifest.xml — mishracodes, Nov 22 '20 at 19:41
@mishracodes can you please explain what should I do to validate native ads... its not enough to add meta data with NATIVE_AD_DEBUGGER_ENABLED... Documentation is so poor about this. Thank you — adnandann, Jan 23 '21 at 22:50

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 21 '21 at 16:31

I'm too late, but it helps someone. I found a way to implement native ads without that MediaView.

The logic is Google has provided some native templates. These are for beginners who want to get started with native ads without implementing them from scratch. There are two templates - gnt_small_template_view and gnt_medium_template_view. gnt_small_template_view doesn't have MediaView. You can happily implement it in recycler view and also you can change the layout as per your requirement (but don't change the view ids). The original layout doesn't look good. You mostly change it.

Here is the documentation.

I have added these templates to my app, I didn't face any issue.

This should be an accepted answer for this particular question. — Nabeel Ahmed, Jul 07 '22 at 11:34

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 10 '20 at 20:30

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We can but it was possible before as Google made it mandatory to add MediaView. Also it's a good idea as your revenue would be increased but it may affect the user experience. Finally, you can't do this because if you upload it to the play store then Google will send you a warning notice saying that you didn't add MediaView. It may affect your earnings.

edited Nov 10 '20 at 20:30

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