Integration of the Roll Ads feature of Huawei Ads Kit in Android app (Kotlin)
Introduction
In this article, we can learn how to integrate Roll Ads feature of Huawei Ads Kit into the android app. So, Roll ads are displayed as short videos or images, before, during, or after the video content is played.
Ads Kit
Huawei Ads provides to developers a wide-ranging capabilities to deliver good quality ads content to users. This is the best way to reach the target audience easily and can measure user productivity. It is very useful when we publish a free app and want to earn some money from it.
HMS Ads Kit has 7 types of Ads kits. Now we can implement Roll Ads in this application.
Requirements
1. Any operating system (MacOS, Linux and Windows).
2. Must have a Huawei phone with HMS 4.0.0.300 or later.
3. Must have a laptop or desktop with Android Studio, Jdk 1.8, SDK platform 26 and Gradle 4.6 and above installed.
4. Minimum API Level 24 is required.
5. Required EMUI 9.0.0 and later version devices.
How to integrate HMS Dependencies
1. First register as Huawei developer and complete identity verification in Huawei developers website, refer to register a Huawei ID.
2. Create a project in android studio, refer Creating an Android Studio Project.
3. Generate a SHA-256 certificate fingerprint.
4. To generate SHA-256 certificate fingerprint. On right-upper corner of android project click Gradle, choose Project Name > Tasks > android, and then click signingReport, as follows.
Note: Project Name depends on the user created name.
5. Create an App in AppGallery Connect.
6. Download the agconnect-services.json file from App information, copy and paste in android Project under app directory, as follows.
7. Enter SHA-256 certificate fingerprint and click Save button, as follows.
Note: Above steps from Step 1 to 7 is common for all Huawei Kits.
8. Add the below maven URL in build.gradle(Project) file under the repositories of buildscript, dependencies and allprojects, refer Add Configuration.
9. Add the below plugin and dependencies in build.gradle(Module) file.
10. Now Sync the gradle.
11. Add the required permission to the AndroidManifest.xml file.
Let us move to development
I have created a project on Android studio with empty activity let us start coding.
In the MainActivity.kt we can find the business logic for Ads.
In the activity_main.xml we can create the UI screen.
Demo
Tips and Tricks
1. Make sure you are already registered as Huawei developer.
2. Set minSDK version to 24 or later, otherwise you will get AndriodManifest merge issue.
3. Make sure you have added the agconnect-services.json file to app folder.
4. Make sure you have added SHA-256 fingerprint without fail.
5. Make sure all the dependencies are added properly.
Conclusion
In this article, we have learned how to integrate Roll Ads feature of Huawei Ads Kit into the android app. So, Roll ads are displayed as short videos or images, before, during, or after the video content is played.
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Reference
Ads Kit — Roll Ads
Ads Kit — Training Video
