using an old SDK

[Little Droid]

Are there any real drawbacks to using an older SDK compared to the
very latest?
I haven't updated the AdMob SDK in my app in just over a year, mainly
because last time I updated the SDK my revenue suddenly dropped by
half, and I keep reading about people having issues with the most
recent SDK.
My app seems to be doing just fine with this year-old SDK, but I'm
wondering if at some point it will just stop working, or if there are
any benefits to upgrading to the latest.

[JDTheProgrammer]

I dont have much experience with SDK 4.3.1 which was released most
recently, but I would personally recommend you to upgrade to 4.1.1
which is very stable and

one reason why I recommend to do this is that, Admob will soon stop
supporting the old SDKs(this is somewhere I have read about old SDKs)
So your apps which are showing ads using olders SDKs will no longer
continue to show ads if Admob deprecate those SDKs.

Upgrading to 4.3.1 is not so crucial, you can do that over time.

[kunal verma]

Actually where would he find 4.1.1 admob SDK as the update link in admob console refers link to the latest sdk
Anyways about your one year old SDK,  things have changed here like you need to have the google admob ads sdk and not just the admob SDK,  then it would be better
dont waste your time finding links for 4.1.1, instead go for 4.3.1 because of lot of errors improvements in it,
Its really easy to put this SDK,  just download the latest 4.0 ANDROID from android developer(if you already dont have it) sdk, 

, and set the default.properties to target=android-13 or target=android-14, respectively, to compile against the newer Android SDK.  You can still set the minSdkVersion, targetSdkVersion, and maxSdkVersion in your manifest to define which devices you support (Android 1.5 or higher) and have tested against.  You will also need to add some configChanges to your AdActivity in your manifest.  It should now look like this:

<activity android:name="com.google.ads.AdActivity"

              android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenLayout|uiMode|screenSize|smallestScreenSize"/>

Then download 4.3.1 google admob sdk, just change the referenced library  and add

Its really easy and worth, will solve errors for some.. though

[kunal verma]

sorry forgot to give the link for 4.3.1 admob sdk
get it from here
http://code.google.com/mobile/ads/download.html

and for updating to the latest android 4.0 , it has to be done through
eclipse--> SDK manager

[Little Droid]

To answer my own question: I had a chance to see my app running on
Galaxy Nexus the other day, and the ads were displayed wrong, and
never refreshed even when a new ad was received.

[kunal verma]

Yeah well sometimes the ads dont refresh due to non availability of inventory of ads,  and the ads nor showing properly can be due to high res device like i also saw a smaller ad though centered on  high res galaxy note,
The later is not confirmed