Android Tutorial on Ad Mob and MonoGame

I have finished my first Android tutorial and MonoGame. It is on how to display banner ads using Google Ad Mob. I found many tutorials and source code on interstitial and reward ads that worked. However, I found it very hard to find any working code, or half working, on displaying banner ads. After a lot of hair pulling I found a solution that was easy to duplicate in other games. You can find the tutorial on my new Android MonoGame Tutorials page of my site. Also, you can use this direct link.

What’s Next

This tutorial came about out of the blue because I was asked about banner ads. I knew about interstitial ads and reward ads but I couldn’t do banner ads. So, I dug into it, found the solution and wrote the tutorial. For that reason I didn’t work on Eyes of the Dragon today as I had originally planned. I will be working on a couple Eyes of the Dragon tutorials tomorrow. I will be merging the three parts of tutorial 11 into one which is about making some editors so we have data to work with.

My Projects

I did work a bit on Quintessential Duels a bit yesterday and this morning. Mostly it was trying to get banner ads working. Once I got that working I moved to the project that is part of my learning, Knight Watch. It will be a 2D MMORPG played in the browser. I was working on the site, login and registration. The login and registration system works fine. However, it could use a little more bullet proofing. Everything occurs on the same page so once you’re on the page there is no navigation. There is a brief loading when you move to the game and it loads resources. It is all built on top of React. Which I am finding pretty cool. I also have a functional tile engine with a 2D camera to scroll the map.

Final Thoughts

Normally I guess at what you want tutorials on but today I was detoured. I like being detoured. It means that I am writing what you want. It improves the quality of the blog. Also, I learn something in the process sometimes. By all means, keep detouring me. Leave comment on the blog about what you want to see