Show interstitials on Android

This page has instructions and code samples for showing interstitial ads on Android.

Overview

Showing interstitial ads is a little more work. In addition to setting up an InterstitialAdView with your placement ID, you must implement the AdListener interface, which includes methods that tell you when an interstitial ad has successfully finished loading, or when the request has failed.

Furthermore, actually showing interstitial ads to users is a two-step process:

1. Call InterstitialAdView.loadAd() to fetch the ad contents from our server and cache them locally. Note that any ad content is rendered in a WebView at the time it is fetched from the ad server and cached. This means that any third-party tracking pixels that are part of the ad content will be fired at the time of the call to loadAd(), not when the call to show() is made at a later time.
2. When you're ready to show the interstitial ad to the user, call show(). This needs to happen within approximately 4 minutes of the call to loadAd() in order for the impression to be counted by Xandr.

For more information, see the code sample below.

Creative media types supported in Interstitial Ad Unit

Code sample

// Android: Java code that uses inventory code and member ID instead of placement ID (optional)
adview.setInventoryCodeAndMemberID(int memberID, String inventoryCode)

// Android: Java code to show an interstitial ad
package com.example.simpleinterstitial;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.util.Log;
import com.appnexus.opensdk.*;
public class MainActivity extends Activity implements AdListener {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        // Set up an ad view with our placement ID.
        InterstitialAdView iav = new InterstitialAdView(this);
        iav.setPlacementID("1326299");
        iav.setAdListener(this);
        // Fetch an ad from the server.  If this works, `onAdLoaded' will
        // be called, and we can show the ad.
        iav.loadAd();
    }
        @Override
        protected void onDestroy() {
        if (iav != null) {
                iav.activityOnDestroy();
        }
        super.onDestroy();
        }
    @Override
    public void onAdLoaded(AdView av) {
        Log.d("onAdLoaded", "The ad has loaded, now we can show it...");
        // Now that the ad has loaded, we can show it to the user.
        InterstitialAdView iav = (InterstitialAdView) av;
        iav.show();
    }
 
    @Override
        public void onAdLoaded(NativeAdResponse nativeAdResponse) {
        // JUST ignore it. This callback is for Native in Banner. 
        }
    @Override
    public void onAdRequestFailed(AdView av, ResultCode rc) {
        Log.d("onAdRequestFailed", "Not sure why the ad request failed; try again? Return code ==> " + rc);
    }
    @Override
    public void onAdClicked(AdView av) {
        Log.d("onAdClicked", "The user clicked your ad.  Congrats!");
    }
        @Override
        public void onAdClicked(AdView adView, String clickUrl) {
        // This will be getting called if you have set setClickThroughAction(ANClickThroughAction.RETURN_URL);
        // Handle the URL appropriately
        }
     @Override
    public void onAdCollapsed(AdView av) {
        // Do something here.
    }
    @Override
    public void onAdExpanded(AdView av) {
        // Do something here as well.
    }
}

Use custom interstitial sizes

By default, if you don't specify an ad size, the SDK will fetch ads in any of the sizes below that are less than or equal to the size of the device's screen.

• 1x1 (always sent)
• The detected size of the screen (always sent)
• 300x250
• 320x480
• 900x500
• 1024x1024

If you want to show interstitial ads in sizes other than the defaults, use the setAllowedSizes method on the interstitial ad view as shown below. Note that the detected size of the screen will still be passed as the primary size. The sizes set using setAllowedSizes will be passed in as additional size on the interstitial ad view and will replace the defaults of 300x250, 320x480, 900x500, and 1024x1024.

// Android: Java code to show interstitial ads in sizes other than the defaults (optional)
InterstitialAdView iav = new InterstitialAdView(this);
iav.setPlacementID("1326299");
AdSize test_size1 = new AdSize(320,480);
AdSize test_size2 = new AdSize(768,1024);
ArrayList test_array_list = new ArrayList() {};
test_array_list.add(test_size1);
test_array_list.add(test_size2);
iav.setAllowedSizes(test_array_list);

Auto-close an interstitial

If you want to auto-close an interstitial ad after a specific timeout period, do not call show() as described in the above sections. Instead call showWithAutoDismissDelay(delayinseconds), where delayinseconds is the number of seconds the ad will be displayed before it closes.

// This will show an interstitial ad, wait for 10 seconds, then auto close it.
interstitialAdView.showWithAutoDismissDelay(10);