Admob support deprecated?

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spacefractal

Admob is being to been very annoying and only have various issues with it in the past months, which have effected many of my games with various startup crash. Mostly due Admob is unstable like hell (as least for me) and too easy do mistakes with it and uses wooping 5mb size.

So im will no longer support admob, so any issues that is due admob, im will not touch anything about that anymore. Howover im will not remove any code in Android Extras at all, nor plans to do that, im will just not attempt fix any more issues with it.

Admob another BIG fail is also, admob do not have any Android TV support, so you cannot get features on thier Google Play, which is just crap.

So now im looking for a better service than admob, which also include Android TV support.

This is the reason im have pulled off Greedy Mouse and Karma Miwa out from Google Play, because they have nearly never worked in the past month and is so hard to blind fix those admob issues constactly. Now im need to do other model, and you can not switch back to a paid software for some stupid reason.

Spot Race was also pulled too, but its soon back again, now 100% free (as well the iOS version). Later im look and see im can implement Skiils service, which could been fun to do that, which would work wonderfull for that game. CatchOut did newer used admob, so that game is not effected with it, so that game stay in Google Play of course.

Both Greedy Mouse and Karma Miwa is still on Amazon Appstore and is now the main store for paid games, until im have found a another model im can use.

Genius.Greedy Mouse - Karma Miwa - Spot Race - CatchOut - PowerUp Elevation - The beagle Jam - Cave Heroes 2023 - https://spacefractal.itch.io/

erico

Damn are they really that bad? Isen´t there a native google solution to ads?
Somehow I suspect that supporting ads is similar to supporting facebook, like it needs constant eternal work to have it going.

Yep, I heard from the very beginning that if you set a game for free on google play, you can´t get back to payed model, I thought they would have changed that already, but it seems they didn´t. Did you try itchi.o with your commercial games? You might even be able to support android there.

Cheers, sorry to hear the admob has become such a burden.

spacefractal

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Im just got very bad felling when Admob allways fails the last half year, and often the game crashed out.

So im was/is looking around this one:
http://www.appbrain.com

They wrote, the best placement is not on the startup, but when there is a pause moment (completed a level or when quit the app).

Im thinks its was a really big mistake im used admob to startup, which proved its was a very bad idea! Its better let the game start without ads to prevent a possible startup crash or when it interfered with the back button.

So NEVER ever show a fullscreen ads in the startup with Admob, that dont work!!!!
Genius.Greedy Mouse - Karma Miwa - Spot Race - CatchOut - PowerUp Elevation - The beagle Jam - Cave Heroes 2023 - https://spacefractal.itch.io/

spacefractal

Greedy Mouse is soon back to Google Play in a compromise solution as long this issue exists.

Admob removed from the game, but with no access to harder and bonus levels. This is until im have fixed admob or doing something different solution. This was the best now compromise to get the game working for people again.

Im can allways update when the issue is fixed and then regain access to all levels again.

Im do not like Admob really (prove to easy crash out with various issues, sometimes even with a hanging back button), and Google have also do somes bad move to indie dev as well (you cant move back to paid app, you require physic adress show to public, admob is also not working for Android TV as well).

In contract iAds do also not working for Apple TV (the framework is completly removed). But here its easier really. If you did not sell a universal app, then you can sell it of its own.

PS. Even im not want to support admob, im do not have plans to remove the code at all, or change it at all. So no concern about it.
Genius.Greedy Mouse - Karma Miwa - Spot Race - CatchOut - PowerUp Elevation - The beagle Jam - Cave Heroes 2023 - https://spacefractal.itch.io/

spacefractal

while im got those crashe issues, mostly intefered wiht the back button, im have fixed up the inapp purchase system, so its should finally works again in AE 3.x in next update.

All public keys do inneded need to been in strings.xml.
Genius.Greedy Mouse - Karma Miwa - Spot Race - CatchOut - PowerUp Elevation - The beagle Jam - Cave Heroes 2023 - https://spacefractal.itch.io/