Smart Banners

Smart Banners are ad units that render screen-width banner ads on any screen size across different devices in either orientation. Smart Banners detect the width of the device in its current orientation and create the ad view that size.

Three ad heights are implemented in smart banners:

Typically, Smart Banners on phones have a height of 50 dp in portrait and 32 dp in landscape. On tablets, height is normally 90 dp in both orientations.

When an image ad isn't large enough to take up the entire allotted space, the image will be centered, and the space on either side will be filled in.

To use Smart Banners in XML, specify the constant SMART_BANNER for the ad size and set the width of the AdView to match_parent. For example:

<com.google.android.gms.ads.admanager.AdManagerAdView
  xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  ads:adSize="SMART_BANNER"
  ads:adUnitId="ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/6300978111">
</com.google.android.gms.ads.admanager.AdManagerAdView>

To create a Smart Banner programmatically, use AdSize.SMART_BANNER as the ad size:

AdManagerAdView adView = new AdManagerAdView(this);
adView.setAdSizes(AdSize.SMART_BANNER);

val adView = AdManagerAdView(this)
adView.adSizes = AdSize.SMART_BANNER