How to Integrate Facebook Audience Network (FAN) Banner Ads in Android?

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In order to earn money from the Android app or game, there are many ways such as in-App Purchases, Sponsorship, Advertisements, and many more. But there is another popular method to earn money from the Android app is by integrating a third party advertisement e.g known as Facebook Audience Network (FAN). Facebook Audience Network is designed to help monetize with the user experience in mind. By using high-value formats, quality ads, and innovative publisher tools it helps to grow the business while keeping people engaged.

Why Facebook Audience Network?

Facebook Audience Network is one of the best alternatives for Google Admob to monetize the Android or IOS App.
Minimum Payout is $100
Wide Range of Ad Formats
Maximum Fill Rates
High eCPM(Effective Cost Per Mille)
Quality Ads
Personalized Ads

Formats of Facebook Audience Network

There are mainly five types of flexible, high-performing format available in Facebook Audience Network

Native: Ads that you design to fit the app, seamlessly
Interstitial: Full-screen ads that capture attention and become part of the experience.
Banner: Traditional formats in a variety of placements.
Rewarded Video: An immersive, user-initiated video ad that rewards users for watching.
Playables: A try-before-you-buy ad experience allowing users to preview a game before installing.

In this article let’s integrate Facebook Audience Network Banner ads in the Android app. Banner ad is a rectangular image or text ad which occupies a small space in the app layout. Banner ad is easy to implement and it doesn’t affect user interface and increases the revenue gradually.

Approach

Step 1: Creating a New Project

To create a new project in Android Studio please refer to How to Create/Start a New Project in Android Studio. Note that choose Java as language though we are going to implement this project in Java language.

Step 2: Before going to the coding section first do some pre-task

Go to app -> res -> values -> colors.xml file and set the colors for the app.

colors.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <color name="colorPrimary">#0F9D58</color>
    <color name="colorPrimaryDark">#0F9D58</color>
    <color name="colorAccent">#05af9b</color>
</resources>

Go to Gradle Scripts -> build.gradle (Module: app) section and import following dependencies and click the “sync now” on the above pop up.

implementation ‘com.facebook.android:audience-network-sdk:5.+’

Go to app -> manifests -> AndroidManifests.xml section and allow “Internet Permission“.

<uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.INTERNET”/>

Step 3: Designing the UI

In the activity_main.xml file, there are simply three Buttons is used. So whenever the user clicked on that button the desired Banner Ad will pop up. To contain the Banner Ad a LinearLayout is added inside the XML file. Here is the code for the activity_main.xml file.

activity_main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".MainActivity">
  
    <!-- Button to Show BANNER_50 Ad By Clicking it -->
    <Button
        android:id="@+id/banner_50"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_margin="40dp"
        android:background="@color/colorPrimary"
        android:padding="16dp"
        android:text="Show  BANNER_50"
        android:textColor="#ffff"
        android:textSize="24dp" />
  
    <!-- Button to Show BANNER_90 Ad By Clicking it -->
    <Button
        android:id="@+id/banner_90"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@id/banner_50"
        android:layout_margin="40dp"
        android:background="@color/colorPrimary"
        android:padding="16dp"
        android:text="Show  BANNER_90"
        android:textColor="#ffff"
        android:textSize="24dp" />
  
    <!-- Button to Show RECTANGLE_HEIGHT_250 Ad By Clicking it -->
    <Button
        android:id="@+id/banner_250"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@id/banner_90"
        android:layout_margin="40dp"
        android:background="@color/colorPrimary"
        android:padding="16dp"
        android:text="Show  RECTANGLE_HEIGHT_250"
        android:textColor="#ffff"
        android:textSize="24dp" />
  
    <!-- LinearLayout to contain the Banner Ads -->
    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/fb_banner_ad_container"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:orientation="vertical" />
  
</RelativeLayout>

Step 4: Working with MainActivity.java file

Open the MainActivity.java file there within the class, first create the object of the Button class.

// Creating objects of Button class

Button fbBanner_50, fbBanner_90, fbBanner_250;

Now inside the onCreate() method, link those objects with their respective IDs that is given in activity_main.xml file.

// link those objects with their respective id’s that we have given in activity_main.xml file

fbBanner_50 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.banner_50);

fbBanner_90 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.banner_90);

fbBanner_250 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.banner_250);

Now inside onCreate() method, initialize the Facebook Audience Network SDK

// initializing the Audience Network SDK

AudienceNetworkAds.initialize(this);

Create a private void showBanner() method outside onCreate() method and define it.
showBanner() method take AdSize as an Argument, to show banner with different Ad sizes

private void showBanner(AdSize adSize)

{

// creating object of AdView

AdView bannerAd;

// initializing AdView Object

// AdView Constructor Takes 3 Arguments

// 1)Context

// 2)Placement Id

// 3)AdSize

bannerAd = new AdView(this, “IMG_16_9_APP_INSTALL#YOUR_PLACEMENT_ID”,adSize);

// Creating and initializing LinearLayout which contains the ads

LinearLayout adLinearContainer = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.fb_banner_ad_container);

// removing the views inside linearLayout

adLinearContainer.removeAllViewsInLayout();

// adding ad to the linearLayoutContainer

adLinearContainer.addView(bannerAd);

// loading Ad

bannerAd.loadAd();

}

Note: Replace “IMG_16_9_APP_INSTALL#YOUR_PLACEMENT_ID” with its own placement id to show real ads.

So the next thing is to call the showBanner() method when a user clicks a respective banner ad button.
Now in oncreate() method create a ClickListener for all the three buttons and call showBanner() with different AdSize.

// click listener to show Banner_50 Ad

fbBanner_50.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

@Override

public void onClick(View view) {

showBanner(AdSize.BANNER_HEIGHT_50);

}

});

// click listener to show Banner_90 Ad

fbBanner_90.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

@Override

public void onClick(View view) {

showBanner(AdSize.BANNER_HEIGHT_90);

}

});

// click listener to show Banner_250 Ad

fbBanner_250.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

@Override

public void onClick(View view) {

showBanner(AdSize.RECTANGLE_HEIGHT_250);

}

});

Now call setAdListener() for Banner Ad, so that users will know the status of the ads. To add adListener open showBanner() method and add the below code before bannerAd.loadAd();

// banner AdListener

bannerAd.setAdListener(new AdListener() {

@Override

public void onError(Ad ad, AdError adError) {

// Showing a toast message

Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, “onError”, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

}

@Override

public void onAdLoaded(Ad ad) {

// Showing a toast message

Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, “onAdLoaded”, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

}

@Override

public void onAdClicked(Ad ad) {

// Showing a toast message

Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, “onAdClicked”, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

}

@Override

public void onLoggingImpression(Ad ad) {

// Showing a toast message

Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, “onLoggingImpression”, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

}

});

And inside AdListener Override methods to show a toast message so that users know the status of the ad. Below is the complete code for the MainActivity.java file.

MainActivity.java

package org.zambiatek.project;
  
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;
import android.widget.Toast;
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;
import com.facebook.ads.Ad;
import com.facebook.ads.AdError;
import com.facebook.ads.AdListener;
import com.facebook.ads.AdSize;
import com.facebook.ads.AdView;
import com.facebook.ads.AudienceNetworkAds;
  
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
  
    // Creating a objects of Button class
    Button fbBanner_50, fbBanner_90, fbBanner_250;
  
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
  
        // link those objects with their respective id's
        // that we have given in activity_main.xml file
        fbBanner_50 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.banner_50);
        fbBanner_90 = (Button)findViewById(R.id.banner_90);
        fbBanner_250
            = (Button)findViewById(R.id.banner_250);
  
        // initializing the Audience Network SDK
        AudienceNetworkAds.initialize(this);
  
        // click listener to show Banner_50 Ad
        fbBanner_50.setOnClickListener(
            new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override public void onClick(View view)
                {
                    showBanner(AdSize.BANNER_HEIGHT_50);
                }
            });
  
        // click listener to show Banner_90 Ad
        fbBanner_90.setOnClickListener(
            new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override public void onClick(View view)
                {
                    showBanner(AdSize.BANNER_HEIGHT_90);
                }
            });
  
        // click listener to show Banner_250 Ad
        fbBanner_250.setOnClickListener(
            new View.OnClickListener() {
                @Override public void onClick(View view)
                {
                    showBanner(AdSize.RECTANGLE_HEIGHT_250);
                }
            });
    }
  
    private void showBanner(AdSize adSize)
    {
        // creating object of AdView
        AdView bannerAd;
  
        // initializing AdView Object
        // AdView Constructor Takes 3 Arguments
        // 1)Context
        // 2)Placement Id
        // 3)AdSize
        bannerAd = new AdView(
            this, "IMG_16_9_APP_INSTALL#YOUR_PLACEMENT_ID",
            adSize);
  
        // Creating and initializing LinearLayout which
        // contains the ads
        LinearLayout adLinearContainer
            = (LinearLayout)findViewById(
                R.id.fb_banner_ad_container);
  
        // removing the views inside linearLayout
        adLinearContainer.removeAllViewsInLayout();
  
        // adding ad to the linearLayoutContainer
        adLinearContainer.addView(bannerAd);
  
        // banner AdListener
        bannerAd.setAdListener(new AdListener() {
            @Override
            public void onError(Ad ad, AdError adError)
            {
                // Showing a toast message
                Toast
                    .makeText(MainActivity.this, "onError",
                              Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
                    .show();
            }
  
            @Override public void onAdLoaded(Ad ad)
            {
                // Showing a toast message
                Toast
                    .makeText(MainActivity.this,
                              "onAdLoaded",
                              Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
                    .show();
            }
  
            @Override public void onAdClicked(Ad ad)
            {
                // Showing a toast message
                Toast
                    .makeText(MainActivity.this,
                              "onAdClicked",
                              Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
                    .show();
            }
  
            @Override public void onLoggingImpression(Ad ad)
            {
                // Showing a toast message
                Toast
                    .makeText(MainActivity.this,
                              "onLoggingImpression",
                              Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
                    .show();
            }
        });
  
        // loading Ad
        bannerAd.loadAd();
    }
}