Classes annotated as visibleForTesting

[Asapha]

It seems that some classes such as com.google.android.gms.ads.AdSize and com.google.android.gms.ads.AdRequest have the @VisibleForTesting annotation in the SDK.

Why would that be the case? Both of those classes are used in samples in the docs.

https://developers.google.com/admob/android/banner

https://developers.google.com/admob/android/interstitial

Using them leads to this error when running Android's linter:

This method should only be accessed from tests or within private scope

A warning is also shown in Android Studio.

Versions used:

com.google.firebase:firebase-ads:21.2.0

AGP 7.4.0-beta01

Android Studio Electric Eel | 2022.1.1 Beta 1

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hi Asapha,

Thank you for reaching out to us.

Can you confirm if the error you've mentioned is showing in our sample app? Upon checking our sample app for banner, I haven't seen the error "This method should only be accessed from tests or within private scope". With that, can you provide us privately your sample app project and steps to replicate for us to further investigate this? You can provide the following details via Reply privately to author option or directly provide it to the link below.

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[Asapha]

My last messages with the exact repro steps are getting deleted.

Trying 1 last time without quoting your response…

The gist of it is to update to Gradle 7.5.1, AGP 7.4.0-beta01 and run the :app:lintDebug task.

In the html report, you'll see a warning about the visibleForTesting annotation.

I could repro via the interstitial sample project.

On my end, I'm getting the error because my project has lint { warningsAsErrors } in its build.gradle.

While we can easily suppress the warning, I can't see why these publicly documented classes would have the annotation.

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hi Asapha,

Thank you for getting back to us. It's odd that your response were deleted. Could you please upload the requested information using the steps below instead?

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[Hermawan Winata]

Hi Teejay,

I have the same lint warning in Android Studio. I have uploaded a screenshot of the warning.

I don't think a public API should be annotated with VisibleForTesting. Or perhaps Android Studio should not consider that annotation from the SDK?

I'm using "com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:21.2.0".

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hello,

Does this warning still appear if you update the SDK to 21.5.0? Feel free to reach back to us at any time if you still encounter this.

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Mobile Ads SDK Team

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[Rayan M]

Hello.

I can confirm that the issue for the com.google.android.gms.ads.AdSize class has been fixed in 21.5.0 but the issue remains for com.google.android.gms.ads.admanager.AdManagerAdRequest which we are also expected to use as per the documentation : https://developers.google.com/admob/android/banner but is still marked as @VisibleForTesting.

Best regards.

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hi Rayan,

Thank you for confirming that the issue for the com.google.android.gms.ads.AdSize class has been fixed in version 21.5.0. For the com.google.android.gms.ads.admanager.AdManagerAdRequest, can you provide us the following information for us to further check this in our end?

• Sample app project where this behavior is happening
• Steps to replicate
• SDK version
• App Id
• Device name and versions affected
• Screenshots (if any)

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