Cordova AdMob Plugin

A free, no ad-sharing version of Google AdMob plugin for Cordova.

Features

• No Ad-Sharing

  Unlike some other plugins, this plugin does not share your advertising revenue by randomly display developer's owned ads.

• Fully Open Sourced

  Except Google provided AdMob SDKs, every line of code are on Github. You don't execute compiled binary without seeing the source code.

• No Remote Control

  Do not send your application information to a remote server to control whether ad could be displayed.

Compare to other projects

Project	No Ad-Sharing	Fully Open Sourced	No Remote Control
admob	Not Sure	❌ ❌	Not Sure
cordova-admob	❌	✅	✅
cordova-plugin-ad-admob	❌	✅	✅
cordova-plugin-admob-free	✅	✅	✅
cordova-plugin-admob-simple	❌	✅	✅
cordova-plugin-admobpro	❌	❌ ❌	❌

Installation

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-admob-free --save

Usage

1. Ceate Ad Unit ID for your banner and interstitial.

Go to AdMob portal, click "Monetize a new app" button to create new ad unit.

2. Define configiration for differrent platforms.

var admobid = {};
if ( /(android)/i.test(navigator.userAgent) ) {  // for android & amazon-fireos
  admobid = {
    banner: 'ca-app-pub-xxx/xxx',
    interstitial: 'ca-app-pub-xxx/xxx',
  };
} else if ( /(ipod|iphone|ipad)/i.test(navigator.userAgent) ) {  // for ios
  admobid = {
    banner: 'ca-app-pub-xxx/xxx',
    interstitial: 'ca-app-pub-xxx/xxx',
  };
} else {  // for windows phone
  admobid = {
    banner: 'ca-app-pub-xxx/xxx',
    interstitial: 'ca-app-pub-xxx/xxx',
  };
}

3. Set options

AdMob.setOptions({
  publisherId: admobid.banner,
  interstitialAdId: admobid.interstitial,
  bannerAtTop: false,  // set to true, to put banner at top
  overlap: true,  // set to true, to allow banner overlap webview
  offsetTopBar: false,  // set to true to avoid ios7 status bar overlap
  isTesting: false,  // receiving test ad
  autoShow: false,  // auto show interstitial ad when loaded
});

4. Display advertisements

Banner Ad

// Create banner
AdMob.createBannerView();

// Close the banner
AdMob.destroyBannerView();

Interstitial Ad

// preppare and load ad resource in background, e.g. at begining of game level
AdMob.prepareInterstitial({
  interstitialId: admobid.interstitial,
  autoShow: false,
});

// show the interstitial later, e.g. at end of game level
AdMob.showInterstitial();

5. Profit

Screenshots

Android Banner	Android Interstitial

iPhone Banner	iPhone Interstitial

API

Methods:

// set default value for other methods
AdMob.setOptions(options, success, fail);

// use banner
AdMob.createBannerView();
AdMob.destroyBannerView();

// use interstitial
AdMob.prepareInterstitial(adId/options, success, fail);
AdMob.showInterstitial();
// low-level methods
AdMob.createInterstitialView();
AdMob.requestInterstitialAd();
AdMob.showInterstitialAd();

Events:

document.addEventListener('onReceiveAd', function() {});
document.addEventListener('onFailedToReceiveAd', function(data) {});
document.addEventListener('onPresentAd', function() {});
document.addEventListener('onDismissAd', function() {});
document.addEventListener('onLeaveToAd', function() {});
document.addEventListener('onReceiveInterstitialAd', function() {});
document.addEventListener('onPresentInterstitialAd', function() {});
document.addEventListener('onDismissInterstitialAd', function() {});

Status

This plugin is forked from cordova-plugin-admob-simple and removed the ad-sharing related code. All APIs are remaining the same as the original fork.

For Android, there are also some enhanced options. If anyone wants them on iOS, please open an issue and let me know.

If you find this plugin useful, please star it on Github.

Contributing

You can use this Cordova plugin for free. You can contribute to this project in many ways:

• Reporting issues.
• Patching and bug fixing, especially when submitted with test code. Open a pull request.
• Other enhancements.

Help with documentation is always appreciated and can be done via pull requests.

Credits

Thanks for the cordova-plugin-admob-simple author for forking the original project cordova-plugin-admob to make it functional and open source it.

Screenshots are copied from cordova-admob-pro.

Disclaimer

This is NOT an official Google product. It is just a community-driven project, which use the Google AdMob SDKs.

License

MIT