AdMob won't show the banner until refresh or sign in to google plus

Question

I\'ve got a problem. My AdMob has been set up for some time now without any problem, but I noticed something wrong. Ad gets successfully loaded (i see message from ddms), bu

Answer 1

banner.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);

This seems to fix the issue for me. Also be sure to run the banner creation code from within the UI thread.

activity.runOnUiThread(new Runnable()
{
    @Override
    public void run()
    {
        // all your banner creation code is here
        banner.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
    }
});