Integrate LG U+AD with Mediation

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• This guide helps publishers set up Google Mobile Ads mediation with LG U+AD in their Android apps.

• Prerequisites include an Android app with the Google Mobile Ads SDK and an AdMob account with a mediation-configured ad unit.

• You need to include the LG U+AD SDK and adapter in your project's libs folder and configure your AndroidManifest.xml.

• When initializing your ad object, it's recommended to pass in an Activity instance to ensure compatibility with mediated networks.

This guide is intended for publishers who are interested in using Google Mobile Ads mediation with LG U+AD. It walks through the setup of a mediation adapter to work with your current Android app and the configuration of additional settings.

Prerequisites

• An Android app with Google Mobile Ads SDK integrated. (If you don't have one, see Get Started.)

• An AdMob account and an ad unit configured with mediation line items.

Helpful primers

The following Help Center articles provide background information on mediation:

• About AdMob Mediation
• Set up AdMob Mediation
• Optimize AdMob Network

Add LG U+AD to your project

Include network adapter and SDK

Download the LG U+AD SDK and adapter from the previous links.

In Android Studio, include the adapter and SDK files in your project's libs folder. Make sure that your app-level Gradle file includes the following:

dependencies {
    implementation(fileTree(mapOf("dir" to "libs", "include" to listOf("*.aar", "*.jar"))))
    // ...
}

dependencies {
    implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.aar', '*.jar'])
    // ...
}

Configure the AndroidManifest.xml file

Modify your AndroidManifest.xml file as instructed in the LG U+AD documentation.

Your app doesn't need to call LG U+AD directly—Google Mobile Ads SDK calls the LG U+AD adapter to fetch ads on your behalf. If necessary, you can specify any additional request parameters. The rest of this page details how to provide more information to LG U+AD.

Initialize your ad object with an Activity instance

In the constructor for a new ad object (for example, AdView), you must pass in an object of type Context. This Context is passed on to other ad networks when using mediation. Some ad networks require a more restrictive Context that is of type Activity and may not be able to serve ads without an Activity instance. Therefore, we recommend passing in an Activity instance when initializing ad objects to ensure a consistent experience with your mediated ad networks.