Android SDK Get Started - MoPub-Solutions-Eng/mopub.wiki.android.native.betasite GitHub Wiki

This document details the process of integrating the MoPub SDK with your Android application. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to email us at [email protected].

Here are the basic integration steps:

1. Download the MoPub Android SDK
2. Add our SDK (and dependencies) to your project.
3. Update your Android Manifest.
4. Create ad units in your app.

MoPub SDK v4.16 and above integrates technology from our partners Integral Ad Science, Inc. (“IAS”) and Moat, Inc. (“Moat”) in order to support viewability measurement and other proprietary reporting that IAS and Moat provide to their advertiser and publisher clients. You have the option to remove or disable this technology by following the opt-out instructions.

If you do not remove or disable IAS's and/or Moat’s technology in accordance with these instructions, you agree that IAS's privacy policy and license and Moat’s privacy policy, terms, and license, respectively, apply to your integration of these partners' technologies into your application.

• Android 4.1 (API Version 16) and up (Updated in 4.12.0)
• android-support-v4.jar, r22 (Updated in 3.7.0)
• android-support-annotations.jar, r22 (Updated in 3.7.0)
• android-support-v7-recyclerview.jar, r22 (Updated in 3.9.0)
• MoPub Volley Library (mopub-volley-1.1.0.jar - available on jCenter) (Updated in 3.6.0)
• Recommended Google Play Services 10.2.0

We strongly recommend compiling your app against the Google Play Services Library in order to use the Android Advertising ID instead of the device ID, as required by Google. Failing to correctly use the Android Advertising ID may result in your submission to the Play Store being rejected.

The MoPub SDK is available via:

• jCenter AAR (Recommended)
• Zipped source
• Cloned GitHub repository

The MoPub SDK is available as an AAR via jCenter. To add the mopub-sdk dependency, open your project's build.gradle and update the repositories and dependencies blocks as follows:

    repositories {
        // ... other project repositories
        jcenter() // includes the MoPub SDK and AVID library
        maven { url "https://s3.amazonaws.com/moat-sdk-builds" }
    }
    
    // ...

    dependencies {
    // ... other project dependencies
        compile('com.mopub:mopub-sdk:4.16.0@aar') {
            transitive = true
        }
    }

With the modular SDK, you can choose to include specific formats to decrease overall SDK footprint in your app. To do so, include the line for any combination of components that you want in your build.gradle file as follows:

    repositories {
        // ... other project repositories
        jcenter() // includes the MoPub SDK and AVID library
        maven { url "https://s3.amazonaws.com/moat-sdk-builds" }
    }
    
    dependencies {
        // ... other project dependencies

        // For banners
        compile('com.mopub:mopub-sdk-banner:4.16.0@aar') {
            transitive = true
        }
        
        // For interstitials
        compile('com.mopub:mopub-sdk-interstitial:4.16.0@aar') {
            transitive = true
        }

        // For rewarded videos. This will automatically also include interstitials
        compile('com.mopub:mopub-sdk-rewardedvideo:4.16.0@aar') {
            transitive = true
        }

        // For native static (images).
        compile('com.mopub:mopub-sdk-native-static:4.16.0@aar') {
            transitive = true
        }

        // For native video. This will automatically also include native static
        compile('com.mopub:mopub-sdk-native-video:4.16.0@aar') {
            transitive = true
        }
    }

To continue integration using the mopub-sdk AAR, please continue to Updating your Android Manifest section.

The MoPub SDK is also distributed as zipped source code that you can include in your application.

MoPub Android SDK.zip

Note: this includes everything you need to serve MoPub ads. No third party ad networks are included.

Alternatively, you can obtain the SDK source by cloning from MoPub Github repository:

git clone git://github.com/mopub/mopub-android-sdk.git

Please skip to Step3 if you are using jCenter ARR to download MoPub SDK in Step1.

To include the MoPub SDK as source in your project, copy the SDK source into your project as a module. To do this on OS X and Linux, do the following:

$MY_PROJECT_DIR $ mkdir mopub-sdk
$MY_PROJECT_DIR $ cp -R $MOPUB_DIR/mopub-android-sdk/mopub-sdk mopub-sdk

Next, open your project's settings.gradle file and make sure the MoPub SDK is included as a module:

include ':app', ':mopub-sdk'

Open your project's build.gradle file and add the following repositories and the MoPub SDK dependency:

repositories {
    jcenter() // includes the MoPub SDK and AVID library
    maven { url "https://s3.amazonaws.com/moat-sdk-builds" }
}

// ...

dependencies {
    compile project(':mopub-sdk')
    // ...
}

This is required in order to resolve the MoPub SDK's compile time dependency on com.mopub.volley:mopub-volley:1.1.0.

Modularization is also possible from the source code directly. Open your project's settings.gradle file and add these modules in addition to your app.

include ':app', ':mopub-sdk', ':mopub-sdk:mopub-sdk-base', ':mopub-sdk:mopub-sdk-banner',
        ':mopub-sdk:mopub-sdk-interstitial', ':mopub-sdk:mopub-sdk-rewardedvideo',
        ':mopub-sdk:mopub-sdk-native-static', ':mopub-sdk:mopub-sdk-native-video'

Open your project's build.gradle file and the following repositories and whichever ad formats you want as a dependency:

    repositories {
        jcenter() // includes the MoPub SDK and AVID library
        maven { url "https://s3.amazonaws.com/moat-sdk-builds" }
    }
    // ...

    dependencies {
        // ... other project dependencies

        // For banners
        compile project(':mopub-sdk:mopub-sdk-banner')
        
        // For interstitials
        compile project(':mopub-sdk:mopub-sdk-interstitial')

        // For rewarded videos. This will automatically also include interstitials
        compile project(':mopub-sdk:mopub-sdk-rewardedvideo')

        // For native static (images).
        compile project(':mopub-sdk:mopub-sdk-native-static')

        // For native video. This will automatically also include native static
        compile project(':mopub-sdk:mopub-sdk-native-video')
    }

To add the MoPub SDK as an .aar in your project, navigate to the MoPub SDK in your terminal and run the following command gradle mopub-sdk:build. This will build an AAR that bundles the mopub-volley-1.1.0.jar.

Copy the .aar to your library directory: cp build/outputs/aar/mopub-sdk.aar $MY_LIB_DIR where $MY_LIB_DIR is your default library directory.

Open your project's build.gradle file and add the below lines:

repositories {
    jcenter() // includes the MoPub SDK and AVID library
    maven { url "https://s3.amazonaws.com/moat-sdk-builds" }
    flatDir {
        dirs '$MY_LIB_DIR'
    }
}

// ...

dependencies {
    compile(name:'mopub-sdk', ext:'aar')
    compile 'com.mopub.volley:mopub-volley:1.1.0:aar'
}

Note: If adding third party network SDKs and adapters, if you receive a dex error, you may need to enable multidexing in your build.gradle file. Please see the Android documentation here.

defaulConfig {
    multiDexEnable true
}

The MoPub Android SDK comes with a full set of POM files. For depending on these files in Maven we recommend running

$ mvn clean install -DskipTests=true

inside the mopub-sdk directory.

The mopub-sdk POM includes dependencies on android-support-v4.aar & android-support-annotations.jar. It relies on the presence of the ANDROID_HOME environment variable. You should have this variable set to the root directory of your Android SDK installation.

On OS X & Linux this often looks like

export ANDROID_HOME “/Users/user/android-sdk-macosx”

in your .bashrc file

On Windows you can add:

ANDROID_HOME,  C:\<installation location>\android-sdk-windows

to your environment variables.

Once you’ve installed the MoPub SDK in your local maven repository you can depend on the project by adding this dependency declaration:

  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.mopub.mobileads</groupId>
    <artifactId>mopub-sdk</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <type>aar</type>
  </dependency>

Remember that if you're using Maven you'll also need to have your Android platform libraries installed in your local Maven repository. The Maven Android SDK Deployer is one popular tool for using Maven to build Android projects.

Your AndroidManifest.xml will need to be updated in order to complete the SDK integration. Add the following permissions and activity declarations according to the bundle you are integrating.

Declare the following permissions:

  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"/>
  <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>

Note: ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION or ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION are only needed if you want the device to automatically send the user's location for targeting. WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE is optional and only required for MRAID 2.0 storePicture ads.

Declare the following activities in your <application>:

  <activity android:name="com.mopub.mobileads.MoPubActivity" android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize"/>
  <activity android:name="com.mopub.mobileads.MraidActivity" android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize"/>
  <activity android:name="com.mopub.common.MoPubBrowser" android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize"/>
  <activity android:name="com.mopub.mobileads.MraidVideoPlayerActivity" android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize"/>
  <activity android:name="com.mopub.mobileads.RewardedMraidActivity" android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize"/>

Add this tag to your <application> to use Google Play Services:

  <meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
        android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version" />

1. If you're compiling against APIs below 13, you should exclude screenSize from the manifest entries.
2. Make sure the com.mopub.mobileads.MraidVideoPlayerActivity is added to your manifest. Without it, video ads will not work correctly.

Once you've completed the above steps, you can start displaying ads in your application by following the simple instructions on the Native Ad, Banner Ad or Interstitial Ad pages.