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UPDATE: It seems there is a problem with Xamarin.Google.iOS.MobileAds version 7.47.0 that doesn’t allow you to compile your code. If this happens, downgrade Xamarin.Google.iOS.MobileAds to version 7.38.0

I’eve just released the new version of the best and most complete Google Admob plugin for Xamarin (Android and iOS).

The changes for this version are:

Added Consent option to iOS
Updated Xamarin.Google.iOS.MobileAds to 7.47.0

With this new version it is possible to decide if use personalised Ads or not on iOS.

In addition to this, the new version of Xamarin.Google.iOS.MobileAds should solve some issues with iOS 13.

How to use the plugin

With MarcTron.Admob you can add Banners, Interstitials and Rewarded Videos to your apps with a single line of code.

First of all, install the plugin from Nuget: https://www.nuget.org/packages/MarcTron.Admob/ . Remember to install it in you shared project and in your Android and iOS projects.

After installing it, in your Android project open your AndroidManifest.xaml and inside the application tag insert this code:

    <meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.ads.APPLICATION_ID"
               android:value="ca-app-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx~xxxxxxxxxx"/>

Remember to use your actual ApplicationID (you can find it in you Admob dashboard).

If on iOS you have problems displaying your ads, install the Xamarin.Google.iOS.MobileAds plugin (it should be installed automatically but sometimes you have to do it manually).

Add a Banner

To add a Banner, in your XAML add the code:

<controls:MTAdView/>

remember to add this line in your XAML:

xmlns:controls="clr-namespace:MarcTron.Plugin.Controls;assembly=Plugin.MtAdmob"

That’s it.

If you have problems showing the Ads, try to set the style in App.xaml:

<OnIdiom x:TypeArguments="x:Double" x:Key="AdsHeight" Phone="50" Tablet="90"/>
            <Style TargetType="controls:MTAdView">
                <Setter Property="HeightRequest" Value="{StaticResource AdsHeight}"/>
            </Style>

Interstitials

You can add an Insterstitial with a single line of code:

CrossMTAdmob.Current.ShowInterstitial();

To load a new one:

CrossMTAdmob.Current.LoadInterstitial("xx-xxx-xxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxxx");

Rewarded Video

You can show a Rewarded video with a single line of code:

CrossMTAdmob.Current.ShowRewardedVideo();

To Load a Rewarded Video you can use this line:

CrossMTAdmob.Current.LoadRewardedVideo("xx-xxx-xxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxxx");

There is so much more

There are many other things you can do with this great plugin for Admob. You can find the full documentation here: https://www.xamarinexpert.it/admob-made-easy/

By Marco Troncone

How to easily add a Sql database in Xamarin Forms

June 23, 2019 | Guide, Plugin, Tutorial | 1 Comment

Every good app needs to use a database. This database can be local (present in the app itself), or it can be remote (saved somewhere on the internet). The third option (fairly common) is to use both and then use a synchronisation mechanism between the two databases. In the case of a local database, the best possible option for our apps is to use an SQL database and use the SQLite library. This library can be used on mobile phones and PCs and is present on a multitude of different applications.

Use SQLite in Xamarin

In theory (I tell you later a better way) to add and use a SQL database in Xamarin.Forms you need to install the “sqlite-net-pcl” library in your projects (.netstandard, Android, iOS, UWP) and then create Dependencies Services (one for each platform).

The whole procedure is not particularly complicated, but it takes about half an hour. If you multiply half an hour for each project you are going to create, you will see that the amount of time lost becomes considerable.

After so many projects and many lost hours I decided to create and make available for everyone my library based on “sqlite-net-pcl“.

My library is called MtSql and allows you to add a SQL database to Xamarin apps in few seconds and in an extremely easy way. Going from 30 minutes to a few seconds is no small feat so I’ll explain how.

MTSQL

My library works with Xamarin and Windows, so you can use it in practically every project where you need to use a database. As this is a blog about Xamarin, I show you how it works on this platform.

Here are the steps to use a SQLite database in your Xamarin.Forms project.

Right click on your solution and select Manage Nuget Packages for Solution

Search for “MarcTron” (so you can see my other plugins too 🙂 ) or directly MTSql. Install MarcTron.Sqlite in your projects (.netstandard, Android, iOS, UWP).

Finished!!!! You have nothing else to do, right now you are ready to use a SQL database inside your app. Time taken: few seconds 🙂

How to use MTSQL

Now that the library is installed in your solution, we need to tell our app which database to use, so we need to establish a connection with the database. To do this we have several possibilities:

using MarcTron.Plugin;
...

SQLiteConnection conn = MtSql.Current.GetConnection("yourdbname.db3");

in this case we have established a connection with the “yourdbname.db3” database. If we want to create an asynchronous connection, we can instead write:

SQLiteAsyncConnection conn = MtSql.Current.GetConnectionAsync("yourdbname.db3");

Since version 1.2 of MTSql I have created an additional Helper to make everything even easier, so to establish the connection with your database, you can write:

MtSql.Helper.Initialize("yourdbname.db3");

PLEASE NOTE: You must always initialise the database with one of the three previous methods before using it.

In my library, to simplify your life, I’ve created a basic template for the tables in your database. This model is called BaseModel (I write it here just to show it to you):

public class BaseModel
{
    [PrimaryKey]
    public string Id { get; set; }
    public DateTime CreatedAt { get; set; }
    public DateTime UpdatedAt { get; set; }
}

Using it is very simple. For example, if you have a table called User with a Name field, you can write the class that defines it as:

public class User : BaseModel
{
    public string Name{ get; set; }
}

Doing so your table will have not only the Name field but also a primary Id key and two CreatedAt, UpdatedAt dates, which specify when the data has been created and modified (very useful if you want to sort your tables by creation or update date).

The helper I created has inside a method called Save. This method will deal not only with inserting or updating a record within your tables but also creating a GUID for you (if you have not already created it) and updating the value of CreatedAt and UpdatedAt. FANTASTIC!

PLEASE NOTE: The Save method inserts an object if its primary key value is not present in the table while updating it if its value is already in the table.

You don’t have to use the BaseModel class but I suggest you to do so and now I’ll show you why.

An Example

Now let’s see a quick example to initialise the database, insert an object and then update it:

MtSql.Helper.Initialize("MyDatabase.db3");
MtSql.Helper.CreateTable<User>();

User user = new User() {Name = "Marco"};
MtSql.Helper.Save(user);

user .Name = "Marco Troncone";
MtSql.Helper.Save(user);

In the first line we have initialised the database (Don’t forget it, it is fundamental to do it).

We then created a User table using the User class written above. At this point we created a user and gave him the name Marco.

When we call the method

MtSql.Helper.Save(user);

since user does not have an Id, the Save method will create one automatically (if you want you can assign one yourself) and will add the user to the table, setting CreatedAt and UpdatedAt to the current time.

At this point we try to change the user name and save the change:

user.Name = "Marco Troncone";
MtSql.Helper.Save(user);

This time user has already an Id and this Id is already present in the table, this time the Save method will not add a new object to the table but will update the current object, automatically updating UpdatedAt. Easy right?

Thanks to the MTSql plugin, in exactly 6 lines of code we have initialised our database, created a table, added an object and modified an object.

Other methods inside the Helper

In the previous example, we’ve seen some helper methods (Initialise, CreateTable, Save), let’s see what the other methods we have:

//To insert a single item inside the table
Insert<TType>(TType item);

//To insert multiple items inside the table
InsertAll<TType>(IEnumerable<TType> items);

//To update an item inside the table
Update<TType>(TType item);

//To find an item inside the table
FirstOrDefault<TType>(Expression<Func<TType, bool>> expression);

//To get from the table the item with Id itemId
GetFromId<TType>(string itemId);

//To get from the table the items with parameter quals to value
GetBy<TType>(string parameter, object value);

//To get all the items from the table
GetAll<TType>();

//To delete the item from the table
Delete<TType>(TType item);

//To delete ALL the items from the table. WARNING!!!
DeleteAll<TType>();

//To see if an item exists
Exists<TType>(string itemId);

//To count the number of items in a table
Count<TType>();

The Helper I’ve created has all the main methods to work on your database. If some methods are not available, you can directly access the database (and therefore all its methods) using the command:

MtSql.Helper.Conn

this is a direct link to the database connection and from here you can find all the supported methods.

Conclusions

Creating a database could be a complicated operation but thanks to the MTSql library, creating a database for our Xamarin projects. Forms is incredibly easy. Install the library from Nuget and in a few seconds and a few lines of code, you have a database ready to be used in your Android, iOS and UWP projects.

Do you have any doubts or suggestions? Add a comment below, and if the article and the library were helpful to you, share them.

By Marco Troncone

Sqlite for Xamarin made easy

May 31, 2019 | Plugin, Tutorial | 13 Comments

Let’s see how we can add a Sqlite database to your Xamarin projects in an incredibly easy way.

To help you to speed up your Xamarin development, I?ve created a set of plugins, one of them is MTSQL. Thanks to this plugin you can add a Sqlite database with a single line of code. The plugin is built on top of the Sqlite-net plugin by Frank A. Krueger.

A couple of useful link you can find useful:

Nuget link:https://www.nuget.org/packages/MarcTron.SQL

Project website:http://www.xamarinexpert.it/plugins/mt-sql/

To report any issue:https://bitbucket.org/marcojak81/mtsql

And now let?s see how to integrate the plugin inside your Xamarin Forms solution.

First of all we need to install the plugin. To do that, do a right-click on your solution and click on Manage NuGet Packages for Solution

Now search the package MarcTron.Sqlite, click on it and remember to select all your projects (.Net Standard project + all the main application projects) then click Install.

The Plugin will take care to install for you also the Sqlite-net plugin byFrank A. Krueger.

If everything worked as expected, you will see the version of the plugin next to each of the projects you have selected in the previous step.

Now it’s time to try the plugin to see how easy it is.

Inside the MainPage constructor you can see that the only line of code you need to create your database and open a connection to it is

SQLiteConnection conn = MTSql.Current.GetConnection("YOURDBNAME.db3");

Remember to replace the string with the name you want for your database.

using MarcTron.Plugin.MTSql;
using SQLite;
using Xamarin.Forms;

namespace YOURNAMESPACE
{
    public partial class MainPage : ContentPage
    {
        class TestTable
        {
            [PrimaryKey, AutoIncrement]
            public int Id { get; set; }

            public string name { get; set; }

            public TestTable()
            {
            }

            public TestTable(string name)
            {
                this.name = name;
            }
        }

        public MainPage()
        {
            InitializeComponent(); //The only line you need to create your database.
            SQLiteConnection conn = MTSql.Current.GetConnection("YOURDBNAME.db3"); 

            //This in case you want to use an async connection
            //SQLiteAsyncConnection connAsync = MTSql.Current.GetConnectionAsync();

            //This is just for test...
            //Create the table TestTable
            conn.CreateTable<TestTable>();
            //Insert some elements
            conn.Insert(new TestTable("A"));
            conn.Insert(new TestTable("B"));
            conn.Insert(new TestTable("C"));
            //Verify that the elements are there
            Label1.Text = "Rows:" + conn.Table<TestTable>().Count();
        }
    }
}

As you can see in the image after we obtain a connection to the database, we can create a table and add some elements to it. Just for test I have added 3 items. If everything works as expected we should see inside the text “Rows:3” on screen. And this is exactly what we get launching the app on UWP.

So, thanks to this plugin, you have your Sqlite database inside your app with only 1 line of code.

What do you think? Add your comment at the end of the page.

By Marco Troncone

Active Directory Authentication Library made easy

May 30, 2019 | Plugin, Tutorial | No Comments

Let’s see how we can make the Active Directory authentication incredibly easy for your Xamarin projects.

To help you to speed up your Xamarin development, I’ve created a set of plugins, one of them is MTADAL. Thanks to this plugin you can authenticate users in your projects with a single line of code.

A couple of useful link you can find useful

Nuget link: https://www.nuget.org/packages/MarcTron.ADAL\

Project website: https://www.xamarinexpert.it/Plugin/MTADAL h

To report any issue: https://bitbucket.org/marcojak81/mtadal

And now let’s see how to integrate the plugin inside your Xamarin Forms solution.

Add the Active Directory Plugin

First of all we need to install the plugin. To do that, do a right-click on your solution and click on “Manage NuGet Packages for Solution…”

Now search the package MarcTron.ADAL, click on it and remember to select all your projects (.Net Standard project + all the main application projects).

The Plugin will take care to install for you also the Nuget package Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory so you need to accept the Microsoft License.

If everything worked as expected, you will see the version of the plugin next to each of the projects you have selected in the previous step.

Now it’s time to try the plugin to see how easy it is.

Authenticate your users

Inside the Button_OnClicked method, you can see the only line of code you need to authenticate the user:

AuthenticationResult data = await MTADAL.Current.Authenticate(Authority, GraphResourceUri, ClientId, ReturnUri);

using System;
using MarcTron.Plugin.ADAL;
using Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory;
using Xamarin.Forms;

namespace YOURNAMESPACE
{
    public partial class MainPage : ContentPage
    {
        public const string ClientId = "YOUR CLIENT ID";
        public static readonly string ReturnUri = "YOUR RETURN URI";
        public const string GraphResourceUri = "YOUR Graph Resource Uri";
        private const string AadInstance = "YOUR AAD Instance";
        private const string Tenant = "YOUR TENANT";
        public static readonly string Authority = $"{AadInstance}{Tenant}";

        public MainPage()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private async void Button_OnClicked(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            AuthenticationResult data = await MTADAL.Current.Authenticate(Authority, GraphResourceUri, ClientId, ReturnUri);

            if (data != null)
                await DisplayAlert("MTADAL", "Hello " + data.UserInfo.GivenName, "Ok");
        }
    }
}

Of course you need to set Authority, GraphResourceUri, ClientId, ReturnUriaccording to your Active Directory credentials.

If we run this simple code and we insert the correct email and password this is what we seeAuthentication completed! And with only a single line of code!

USAGE ON ANDROID

To use this plugin on Android, add the following line inside the OnCreate method of your MainActivity:

MTADAL.Current.Init(this);ï»¿

Add that line just after the Xamarin Forms initialization

Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init(this, bundle);ï»¿

What do you think? Add your comment at the end of the page.

By Marco Troncone

Add Admob Rewarded video Ads to Android and iOS with a single line of code

May 25, 2019 | Article, Guide, Plugin | 3 Comments

Have you seen how amazing are the Admob Rewarded video Ads? If you are creating a game or an app, the Rewarded Videos are something you should add to your app.

UPDATE: I’ve added on github the source code of a project to test this Admob plugin. You can find it here: https://github.com/marcojak/TestMTAdmobï»¿

Do you think that are difficult to implement and it takes hours of your time? WRONG!

Thanks to my plugin MarcTron.Admob (https://www.nuget.org/packages/MarcTron.Admob) you can add Rewarded Videos with a single line of code!!!

Exactly!!! Install the MarcTron.Admob free plugin and in less than few seconds you can show Rewarded Videos in your Android and iOS apps!

HOW (It’s super easy!!!)

Install the MarcTron.Admob plugin in your projects (.netstandard, Android and iOS).
That’s it! No other things to do!!!

Now, if you want to show a rewarded video you just have to write this code:

CrossMTAdmob.Current.ShowRewardedVideo("xx-xxx-xxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxxx");

Of course remember to replace the xxx with your video ID that you can find on your Google Admob page.

EVENTS

We all love events 🙂 If you love them as well. There are 7 events that you can use with Rewarde Videos:

OnRewarded                          When the user gets a reward
OnRewardedVideoAdClosed             When the ads is closed
OnRewardedVideoAdFailedToLoad       When the ads fails to load
OnRewardedVideoAdLeftApplication    When the users leaves the application
OnRewardedVideoAdLoaded             When the ads is loaded
OnRewardedVideoAdOpened             When the ads is opened
OnRewardedVideoStarted              When the ads starts

CONCLUSION

We have just seen how to add Rewarded Videos (with the plugin you can add Banners and Interstitials as well) in less than few seconds.

Basically it’s a dream 🙂 But it’s all TRUE!

USEFUL LINKS

Now here some links that you can use:

A detailed tutorial on how to use the plugin: https://www.xamarinexpert.it/blog/admob-made-easy/

The nuget package link:

https://www.nuget.org/packages/MarcTron.Admob

The bitbucket project site to report/view issues:

https://bitbucket.org/marcojak81/mtadmob/issues

Github test project to try the plugin: https://github.com/marcojak/TestMTAdmob

By Marco Troncone

Admob for Xamarin made easy

May 6, 2019 | Guide, Plugin, Tutorial | 86 Comments

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to monetize your Xamarin apps with AdMob using my MTAdmob plugin.

Important: If you receive errors compiling the code for iOS, install the package Xamarin.Google.iOS.MobileAds in your iOS project.

UPDATE 16/10/2019: MTAdmob is now Open Source on Github: https://github.com/marcojak/MTAdmobUPDATE 11/10/2019: VERY IMPORTANT!!! The new version 1.4.4 is out. There is an issue in the latest Xamarin.Google.iOS.MobileAds 7.47. Because of this, in your iOS project you have to install the plugin Xamarin.Google.iOS.SignIn 4.4.0 too. This will let you compile and use MobileAds.

UPDATE 1/May/2019: I’ve released the new version 1.3 thas sovles some issues with iOS and improves performances.

UPDATE: From version 1.2, MTAdmob supports also Google ads rewarded videos for Android and iOS

UPDATE: I’ve added on github the source code of a project to test this Admob plugin. You can find it here: https://github.com/marcojak/TestMTAdmob

To help you to speed up your Xamarin development, I’ve created a set of plugins, one of them is MTAdmob. Thanks to this plugin you can add Admob banners and Insterstitials in just few lines of code. It couldn’t be easier than that and I’ll show you.

Install the plugin

First of all, right click on your Xamarin solution and select “Manage Nuget packages for Solution”

Visual Studio will open a new screen where you can search and install one or more nuget packages. In this case we can search for the MTAdmob plugin. Searching for MarcTron will show you all my packages (I’m sure you can find other useful plugins that I’ve written), and we can select the MTAdmob plugin as showed in the next image.

It’s very important that you install the plugin in your PCL/.Net standard project and in your platform projects (Android, iOS, UWP).

After the Admob plugin is installed we can add banners and insterstitials to our projects.

Add Ads to our project

With version 1.0 the MTAdmob plugin supports banner and interstitials for Android and iOS. If you would like to see the plugin supporting also the UWP platform, let me now and I’ll add the support in a new version.

As I’ve said we can add Banners and Interstitials Admob ads to our project. Let’s start with the Banners

How to add an Admob Banner

An Admob banner is just a view inside our page. It means that we can add it using XAML or C#. First of all let’s see how to add an Admob banner using XAML.

Add an Admob Banner with XAML

In MTAdmob to use an Admob banner I’ve created a custom control called AdView, so to use it we can use this code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<ContentPage xmlns="http://xamarin.com/schemas/2014/forms"
             xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2009/xaml"
             xmlns:controls="clr-namespace:MarcTron.Plugin.Controls;assembly=Plugin.MtAdmob"
             x:Class="Test.MTAdmob.MainPage">

<StackLayout>
    <Label Text="Let's test an Admob Banner!" 
           HorizontalOptions="Center"
           VerticalOptions="CenterAndExpand" />
    <!-- Place the Admob controls here -->
    <controls:MTAdView/>
</StackLayout>

In this example we have created a StackLayout with 2 controls: a label and an AdView (our Admob banner). Easy! Isn’t it???

The AdView control is basically a View so you can use all the properties you can think of like: HorizontalOptions, VerticalOptions, IsVisible…

In addition to these properties, I’ve added in AdView two other properties: AdsId and PersonalizedAds.

AdsId: Allows you to add the Banner Id (you can find it in your Admob account)

PersonalizedAds: This allow you to use non personalized ads. For example in case of GPDR. Of course it’s better to use personalized Ads.

To use these properties you can update the previous code to:

<controls:AdView PersonalizedAds="true" AdsId="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"/>

Add an Admob Banner with C#

In case you don’t write your pages with XAML or you write your UI in C# or you want to add your view only in some cases, you can add your Admob Banner using this code:

using MarcTron.Plugin;
...
MTAdView ads = new MTAdView();

Of course you need to attach this View to your layout, but you know how to do it (If not, feel free to ask).

To use the custom properties you can change the previous code to:

...
MTAdView ads = new MTAdView();
ads.AdsId = "xxx";
ads.PersonalizedAds = true;

Also in this case, to add an Admob banner is INCREDIBILY EASY!!!

Global Custom Properties

As you have seen, the properties AdsId and PersonalizedAds belong to a single AdView. It means that you have to set them for every Admob Banner.

To make things even easier I’ve added the option to set these properties only once. To do so, you can use this C# code:

CrossMTAdmob.Current.UserPersonalizedAds = true;
CrossMTAdmob.Current.AdsId = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";

In this case all your Admob banner will show personalized ads and will have the same Id.

If you set local and global properties, the local ones will have higher priority.

Use of Banner Events

I’ve added 4 events to the Admob banner that you could find nice to have. These events are:

AdsClicked When a user clicks on the ads
AdsClosed When the user closes the ads
AdsImpression Called when an impression is recorded for an ad.
AdsOpened When the ads is opened

To use these events you can write this code:

AdView myAds = new AdView();
myAds.AdsClicked += MyAdsAdsClicked;
myAds.AdsClosed += MyAds_AdVClosed;
myAds.AdsImpression += MyAds_AdVImpression;
myAds.AdsOpened += MyAds_AdVOpened;

Of course you can use these events also if you have declared your AdView in your XAML code.

Admob Interstitials

Now that we know how to add Admob banners using my plugin MTAdmob, let’s see how we can add Admob Interstitials. If possible, to add an Admob interstitial is even easier. You just need a single line of code. Don’t you believe me? Look here how to show an Admob interstitial:

CrossMTAdmob.Current.ShowInterstitial("ca-app-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxxx");

I told you!!! That’s it!!! With that line of code you have just showed an Interstitial in you app. Of course you need to replace that string with the Insterstitial ID you can find in your Admob account.

Events for Interstitials

There 3 events that you can use with Interstitials:

OnInterstitialLoaded        When it's loaded
OnInterstitialOpened        When it's opened      
OnInterstitialClosed        When it's closed

Rewarded Video

From version 1.1 the plugin supports the amazing Rewarded Video too.

To show a rewarded video you just need a single line of code:

CrossMTAdmob.Current.ShowRewardedVideo("xx-xxx-xxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxxx");

Events for Rewarded videos

There are 7 events that you can use with the Rewarded video Ads:

OnRewarded                          When the user gets a reward
OnRewardedVideoAdClosed             When the ads is closed
OnRewardedVideoAdFailedToLoad       When the ads fails to load
OnRewardedVideoAdLeftApplication    When the users leaves the application
OnRewardedVideoAdLoaded             When the ads is loaded
OnRewardedVideoAdOpened             When the ads is opened
OnRewardedVideoStarted              When the ads starts

Initialization

Before you can use the Admob banners and Interstitials, you need to initialize it. You need to do it only once so it makes sense to initialize it onside the OnCreate method in Android and FinishedLaunching in iOS.

In your Android project add this line in your OnCreate method:

MobileAds.Initialize(ApplicationContext, "ca-app-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx~xxxxxxxxxx");

In your iOS project add this line in your FinishedLaunching method:

MobileAds.SharedInstance.Start(CompletionHandler);

private void CompletionHandler(InitializationStatus status){}

In iOS you should install the package Xamarin.Google.iOS.MobileAds and Xamarin.Google.iOS.SignIn!

You need to add to your Info.plist file this:

	<key>GADApplicationIdentifier</key>
	<string>YOUR APP ID</string>
	<key>GADIsAdManagerApp</key>
	<true/>

Android Project (Important)

In your AndroidManifest you should add these lines:

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

<application android:label="Test.MTAdmob.Android">
    <meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.version" android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version"/>
    <meta-data android:name="com.google.android.gms.ads.APPLICATION_ID" android:value="ca-app-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx~yyyyyyyyyy"/>
    <activity android:name="com.google.android.gms.ads.AdActivity" android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenLayout|uiMode|screenSize|smallestScreenSize" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent" />
</application>

iOS Project (Important)

From version 1.4.4 you need to manually install the packages: Xamarin.Google.iOS.MobileAds and Xamarin.Google.iOS.SignIn! If you don’t install them, your app will not compile.

Some useful links

Admob official website: https://apps.admob.com/
Available on Nuget: https://www.nuget.org/packages/MarcTron.Admob
Source Code: https://github.com/marcojak/MTAdmob
Tutorial: https://www.xamarinexpert.it/admob-made-easy/
Test Project:https://github.com/marcojak/TestMTAdmob
To report any issue: https://bitbucket.org/marcojak81/mtadmob

Conclusion

This Admob MTAdmob plugin is incredibly easy to use but in case you need help, or you want to suggest a new feature or for any other reason, write me.

By Marco Troncone

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