Banner ads custom events

Prerequisites

Complete the custom events setup.

Request a banner ad

When the custom event line item is reached in the waterfall mediation chain, the loadBannerAd() method is called on the class name you provided when creating a custom event. In this case, that method is in SampleCustomEvent, which then calls the loadBannerAd() method in SampleBannerCustomEventLoader.

To request a banner ad, create or modify a class that extends Adapter to implement loadBannerAd(). Additionally, create a new class to implement MediationBannerAd.

In our custom event example, SampleCustomEvent implements the Adapter interface and then delegates to SampleBannerCustomEventLoader.

Java

package com.google.ads.mediation.sample.customevent;

import com.google.android.gms.ads.mediation.Adapter;
import com.google.android.gms.ads.mediation.MediationAdConfiguration;
import com.google.android.gms.ads.mediation.MediationAdLoadCallback;
import com.google.android.gms.ads.mediation.MediationBannerAd;
import com.google.android.gms.ads.mediation.MediationBannerAdCallback;
...

public class SampleCustomEvent extends Adapter {
  private SampleBannerCustomEventLoader bannerLoader;
  @Override
  public void loadBannerAd(
      @NonNull MediationBannerAdConfiguration adConfiguration,
      @NonNull MediationAdLoadCallback<MediationBannerAd, MediationBannerAdCallback> callback) {
    bannerLoader = new SampleBannerCustomEventLoader(adConfiguration, callback);
    bannerLoader.loadAd();
  }
}

SampleBannerCustomEventLoader is responsible for the following tasks:

  • Loading the banner ad and invoking a MediationAdLoadCallback method once loading completes

  • Implementing the MediationBannerAd interface

  • Receiving and reporting ad event callbacks to the Google Mobile Ads SDK

The optional parameter defined in the Ad Manager UI is passed into your custom event as part of the loadBannerAd() method. This parameter is typically an ad unit identifier that an ad network SDK requires when instantiating an ad object.

Java

package com.google.ads.mediation.sample.customevent;

import com.google.android.gms.ads.mediation.Adapter;
import com.google.android.gms.ads.mediation.MediationBannerAdConfiguration;
import com.google.android.gms.ads.mediation.MediationAdLoadCallback;
import com.google.android.gms.ads.mediation.MediationBannerAd;
import com.google.android.gms.ads.mediation.MediationBannerAdCallback;
...

public class SampleBannerCustomEventLoader extends SampleAdListener implements MediationBannerAd {

  /** View to contain the sample banner ad. */
  private SampleAdView sampleAdView;

  /** Configuration for requesting the banner ad from the third-party network. */
  private final MediationBannerAdConfiguration mediationBannerAdConfiguration;

  /** Callback that fires on loading success or failure. */
  private final MediationAdLoadCallback<MediationBannerAd, MediationBannerAdCallback>
      mediationAdLoadCallback;

  /** Callback for banner ad events. */
  private MediationBannerAdCallback bannerAdCallback;

  /** Constructor. */
  public SampleBannerCustomEventLoader(
      @NonNull MediationBannerAdConfiguration mediationBannerAdConfiguration,
      @NonNull MediationAdLoadCallback<MediationBannerAd, MediationBannerAdCallback>
              mediationAdLoadCallback) {
    this.mediationBannerAdConfiguration = mediationBannerAdConfiguration;
    this.mediationAdLoadCallback = mediationAdLoadCallback;
  }

  /** Loads a banner ad from the third-party ad network. */
  public void loadAd() {
    // All custom events have a server parameter named "parameter" that returns
    // back the parameter entered into the UI when defining the custom event.
    Log.i("BannerCustomEvent", "Begin loading banner ad.");
    String serverParameter =
        mediationBannerAdConfiguration.getServerParameters().getString(
        MediationConfiguration.CUSTOM_EVENT_SERVER_PARAMETER_FIELD);

    Log.d("BannerCustomEvent", "Received server parameter.");

    Context context = mediationBannerAdConfiguration.getContext();
    sampleAdView = new SampleAdView(context);

    // Assumes that the serverParameter is the ad unit of the Sample Network.
    sampleAdView.setAdUnit(serverParameter);
    AdSize size = mediationBannerAdConfiguration.getAdSize();

    // Internally, smart banners use constants to represent their ad size, which
    // means a call to AdSize.getHeight could return a negative value. You can
    // accommodate this by using AdSize.getHeightInPixels and
    // AdSize.getWidthInPixels instead, and then adjusting to match the device's
    // display metrics.
    int widthInPixels = size.getWidthInPixels(context);
    int heightInPixels = size.getHeightInPixels(context);
    DisplayMetrics displayMetrics = Resources.getSystem().getDisplayMetrics();
    int widthInDp = Math.round(widthInPixels / displayMetrics.density);
    int heightInDp = Math.round(heightInPixels / displayMetrics.density);

    sampleAdView.setSize(new SampleAdSize(widthInDp, heightInDp));
    sampleAdView.setAdListener(this);

    SampleAdRequest request = createSampleRequest(mediationBannerAdConfiguration);
    Log.i("BannerCustomEvent", "Start fetching banner ad.");
    sampleAdView.fetchAd(request);
  }

  public SampleAdRequest createSampleRequest(
      MediationAdConfiguration mediationAdConfiguration) {
    SampleAdRequest request = new SampleAdRequest();
    request.setTestMode(mediationAdConfiguration.isTestRequest());
    request.setKeywords(mediationAdConfiguration.getMediationExtras().keySet());
    return request;
  }
}

Depending on whether the ad is successfully fetched or encounters an error, you would call either onSuccess() or onFailure(). onSuccess() is called by passing in an instance of the class that implements MediationBannerAd.

Typically, these methods are implemented inside callbacks from the third-party SDK your adapter implements. For this example, the Sample SDK has a SampleAdListener with relevant callbacks:

Java

@Override
public void onAdFetchSucceeded() {
  bannerAdCallback = mediationAdLoadCallback.onSuccess(this);
}

@Override
public void onAdFetchFailed(SampleErrorCode errorCode) {
  mediationAdLoadCallback.onFailure(SampleCustomEventError.createSampleSdkError(errorCode));
}

MediationBannerAd requires implementing a View getter method:

Java

@Override
@NonNull
public View getView() {
  return sampleAdView;
}

Forward mediation events to the Google Mobile Ads SDK

Once onSuccess() is called, the returned MediationBannerAdCallback object can then be used by the adapter to forward presentation events from the third-party SDK to the Google Mobile Ads SDK. The SampleBannerCustomEventLoader class extends the SampleAdListener interface to forward callbacks from the sample ad network to the Google Mobile Ads SDK.

It's important that your custom event forwards as many of these callbacks as possible, so that your app receives these equivalent events from the Google Mobile Ads SDK. Here's an example of using callbacks:

Java

@Override
public void onAdFullScreen() {
  bannerAdCallback.onAdOpened();
  bannerAdCallback.reportAdClicked();
}

@Override
public void onAdClosed() {
  bannerAdCallback.onAdClosed();
}

This completes the custom events implementation for banner ads. The full example is available on GitHub. You can use it with an ad network that is already supported or modify it to display custom event banner ads.