AdMob: Unable to initialize without Google Play Services

[mrpuzzler]

Under Android replace:

firebase::admob::Initialize(*app, kAdMobAppID);
with
firebase::admob::Initialize(GetJniEnv(), GetActivity(), kAdMobAppID);

and you get crash, as there is no such method on Android side.

[jonsimantov]

Hi,

The C++ library always requires you to pass in the Firebase App. When you initialize Firebase App on Android, you pass in the JNI environment and activity.

See the AdMob sample app for an example:
https://github.com/firebase/quickstart-cpp/blob/master/admob/testapp/src/common_main.cc#L126

[mrpuzzler]

I try to use Firebase on Amazon devices without Google Play Services. So I can't init Firebase, as I always get annoying dialog "Update Google Play Services". But, according to docs - there is no need for Firebase to use AdMob.

And AdMob has special constructor for such cases - see admob.h

Looks like you forgot to implement jni-bridge on c++ side to java side. c++ has function, but does not route to java call. It's easy to fix.

[jonsimantov]

Sorry about that. I do see the Initialize() method you described.

It does seem that there is a bug that still looks for the class com.google.android.gms.tasks.Task when you initialize AdMob in that way. Thank you for reporting it, I'll take a look and see what's needed to fix it.

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[mrpuzzler]

Lol, after almost 1.5 year you still did not fix it, are you serious?

[DellaBitta]

Hi all,

We've since deprecated the AdMob SDK and have replaced it with the Google Mobile Ads (GMA) SDK. 've just tested this and I was able to create an instance of the GMA SDK without Google Play Services. If you do encounter this issue still on the GMA SDK, then please open another ticket and we'll look into it further. Thank you!