Wow thank you for the huge amount of effort you put in responding so throughly! I am trying to implement the correct method to doing this but I am facing some problems. I made a LinearLayout with a listview and an adview, but I can not figure out how to tell my ListActivity to use that listview instead of making it's own.
Am I making another mistake going at it like this? On Feb 8, 5:17 pm, Bob Kerns <r...@acm.org> wrote: > Before you go and follow TreKings excellent suggestion (he beat me to > it), you might try in an else clause, setting the visibility to GONE. > > I bet you're seeing recycling of the item views. Which underlying item > from the LispAdapter a particular View instance is using can change, > as they get reused by the ListView to display different items. So my > guess is, you're probably setting it when a (id % 5) == 0 item comes > up, and not resetting it when an (id % 5) != 0 item is used instead. > You may not be realizing this is happening if you're using > super.getView(...) to get the view to operate on and return. > > Still, you should do it TreKing's way. In addition to his excellent > reasons, you're violating AdMob's guidelines -- which call for no more > than two in the event of a scrolling list, one at the top, one at the > bottom of the list. > > "The number of ads on a single page should not exceed one if the ad is > fixed to the screen top or screen bottom. If the page scrolls, there > should be a maximum of one ad on the top and one ad on the bottom, and > both ads should not appear on the same page." > > http://helpcenter.admob.com/content/policies-tips-developers-publishers > (Admittedly, a bit hard to find -- look for the 'help' link next to > your login name on the upper right). > > I'd say that's really a logical consequence of the following rule > (rule #1): > "Ads should not be placed close to or underneath buttons or any other > object that users may accidentally click while interacting with your > app or site." > > I've seen an app that deliberately violated this. Users noticed, and > weren't happy about it. I don't think violating it is a path to > maximizing your revenue. You don't want advertising to detract from > the value of your app to the user; they'll just stop using it instead. > > On Feb 8, 12:38 pm, Kasra Rahjerdi <johncena4presid...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > I had not thought about doing it that way at all. That sounds like a > > much better approach than my current method. > > > Thank You, > > Kasra > > > On Feb 8, 11:00 am, TreKing <treking...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Kasra Rahjerdi < > > > > johncena4presid...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > The ListView's row > > > > layout is a LinearLayout that has two things in it, one AdMob layout > > > > and one TextView > > > > So EVERY row in your list has an ad but you only want to show every fifth > > > one? I assume that is so there's only one ad show on the screen at a time? > > > May I suggest you go about this a different way? Use the list view header > > > or > > > footer object as the ad or add a completely separate LinearLayout above or > > > below the ListView that has the ad. > > > > Besides the issues you've described, what happens on a large-screen device > > > that shows more than five rows at a time? User gets two or more ads at a > > > time. What happens on small-screen device or when switching orientation > > > such > > > that the screen height is smaller than normal? You may not display any ads > > > at all. > > > > Either way seems inconsistent. My $0.02. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > ---------------------- > > > TreKing - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered > > > deviceshttp://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
