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Facebook Audience

This guide is intended for publishers who want to use the Google Mobile Ads SDK to load and display ads from Facebook Audience Network via mediation.

Step 1: Set up Facebook Audience Network​

The Google documentation contains a very detailed guide as to the process to setup your properties and Facebook account to display adverts.

Make sure you follow this guide closely.

Step 2: Configure mediation settings for your AdMob ad unit​

You need to add Facebook to the mediation configuration for your ad unit.

Step 3: Import the Facebook Audience Network SDK and adapter ANE​

The simplest way to install and manage your AIR native extensions and libraries is to use the AIR Package Manager (apm). We highly recommend using apm, as it will handle downloading all required dependencies and manage your application descriptor (Android manifest additions, iOS info additions etc).

However you can choose to install it manually, as you would have done in the past.

Add the Extension​

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Note: All of the commands below should be run in a terminal / command prompt in the root directory of your application, generally the level above your source directory.

If you don't have an APM project setup, expand the guide below to setup an APM project before installing the extension.

Setup APM

Install APM​

If you haven't installed apm follow the install guide on airsdk.dev.

Setup an APM project​

You will need an APM project for your application.

There are many ways to do this and for more options see the APM documentation. Here we will just initialise a new empty project:

apm init

Check your github token​

We use github to secure our extensions so you must have created a github personal access token and configured apm to use it.

To do this create a token using this guide from github and then set it in your apm config using:

apm config set github_token ghp_XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

If you don't do this correctly you may find the install will fail.

Install the extension​

Install the extension by running: 

apm install com.distriqt.admob.FacebookAudience

This will download and install the extension, required assets, and all dependencies.

Once complete apm will have created something like the following file structure: 

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|____ assets
| |____ android 
| | |____ audience_network.dex
| |____ ios 
| | |____ Frameworks
| | | |____ [dynamic frameworks]
|____ ane
| |____ com.distriqt.admob.FacebookAudience.ane # Facebook Audience AdMob mediation extension
| |____ [dependencies]
|____ apm_packages                  # cache directory - ignore
|____ project.apm                   # apm project file

  • Add the ane directory to your IDE. See the tutorials located here on adding an extension to your IDE.

  • You will have an assets directory that contains required assets for the installed extensions. You must add the files in the assets/android folder to the root of your Android application package and the assets/ios folder to the root of your iOS application package. (The android folder contains the audience_network.dex file that is required on Android and the ios folder contains a Frameworks folder with the required iOS dynamic frameworks).

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We suggest you use the locations directly in your builds rather than copying the files elsewhere. The reason for this is if you ever go to update the extensions using apm that these updates will be pulled into your build automatically.

Application Descriptor​

Updating your application descriptor will insert the required extensionID's and generate the manifest and info additions for your application.

You update your application descriptor by running:

apm generate app-descriptor src/MyApp-app.xml

Change the path (src/MyApp-app.xml) to point to your application descriptor.

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This will modify your application descriptor replacing the manifest additions and info additions with the ones generated from apm.

You should backup your application descriptor before running this command to ensure you don't lose any information.

If you need to insert custom data into these sections see the guides for Android and iOS

Step 4: Additional code required​

There is no additional code required.

Step 5: Test your implementation​

When testing always make sure you are adding your test device id to the request to ensuring AdMob do not block your account for policy violations:

new AdRequestBuilder()
    .addTestDevice( "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" )
    .build()

See the Adverts docs for more details.

Facebook Testing​

You will need to enable testing in your Facebook account, by adding your test device and enabling an test advert type to serve the device.

See the Testing Audience Network Implementation guide for detailed instructions on how to enable Facebook test ads.

Forcing Mediation Network​

The easiest way we have found to force a mediation network during testing is to disable automatic optimisations and set the eCPM manually.

Doing this you can give the mediation network you are wanting to test a high eCPM value ( eg $1000) and all others (including AdMob) a very low eCPM (eg $0.01).