Android Admob advert in PreferenceActivity

Question

Is there a way to add an admob advert to a PreferenceActivity? How to?

Answer 1

I implemented the proposed approach, but faced problem regarding placing the banner at the top and with padding issues. So, i used a different approach and interested to share with you. I was working on a preference activity, although it has been deprecated but i had to work on it for some reason instead of changing to androidx preference library.

Here are the following steps:

1. Get the parent of preference activity.

   LinearLayout root = (LinearLayout) 
   findViewById(android.R.id.list).getParent().getParent().getParent();
   

2. Create a xml file named banner_ad.xml.

3. Inflate the layout.

   LinearLayout adViewLayout = (LinearLayout) 
   LayoutInflater.from(this).inflate(R.layout.banner_ad,root,false);
   AdView adView = adViewLayout.findViewById(R.id.adview);
   

4. Load add.

   AdRequest adRequest = new AdRequest.Builder()
           .addTestDevice(device_id)
           .build();
   adView.loadAd(adRequest);
   

5. Add layout view as a child of root view. In my case i used this below toolbar at index 1.

   root.addView(adViewLayout,1);