How do I put an admob adview in the settings screen for a live wallpaper?

Question

I\'ve seen the Mario live wallpaper uses admob ads in the settings screen, but I haven\'t been able to do it myself. If I put the adview into the settings.xml like you would

Answer 1

I've managed to answer this for myself so I'll post the solution in here in case someone else has the same question.

I added a TabActivity as well as the standard Preferences activity, then nested the Preferences inside a Tab of the TabActivity. This means I've got a normal layout xml for the TabActivity that I can put an adview (or any other type of view) inside and I've still got the generated preferences screen working within that.

Code for the TabActivity

public class SettingsTabActivity extends TabActivity {

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.tablayout);

        TabHost tabHost = getTabHost();  // The activity TabHost
        TabHost.TabSpec spec;  // Resusable TabSpec for each tab
        Intent intent;  // Reusable Intent for each tab

        // Create an Intent for the regular live wallpaper preferences activity
        intent = new Intent().setClass(this, Preferences.class);

        // Initialize a TabSpec and set the intent
        spec = tabHost.newTabSpec("TabTitle").setContent(intent);
        spec.setIndicator("TabTitle");

        tabHost.addTab(spec);

        tabHost.setCurrentTab(0);      
    }
}

Code for the tablayout.xml

Setting android:visibility="invisible" and android:layout_height="1dp" on the TabWidget tag means the user can't tell it's actually a Tab