Android 7 - displayed banner ad removes Night Mode from activity

[Christopher]

Hello,

I display banner ads from AdMob. My app use "Theme.AppCompat.DayNight" style to apply DAY MODE or DARK MODE.

I set "AppCompatDelegate.setDefaultNightMode(AppCompatDelegate.MODE_NIGHT_YES)" when app is started.

Everything is fine on all Android version, except new Android 7 BETA.

boolean isNightMode = (activity.getResources().getConfiguration().uiMode & Configuration.UI_MODE_NIGHT_MASK) == Configuration.UI_MODE_NIGHT_YES;

Above value "isNightMode" is TRUE when activity is created. But after banner ad is displayed value "isNightMode" is FALSE and some views of my activity are with light style. It looks awful.

I tested with "compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:8.3.0'" and "compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:9.2.0'". Same issue.

I tested with "targetSdkVersion 23" and "targetSdkVersion 24". Same issue.

I tested on both phisical device (Nexus 5X) and emulators. Same issue.

Could you please fix this?

[Vu Chau (Mobile Ads SDK Team)]

Hi Christopher,

Thanks for drawing our attention to this! I was able to reproduce this behavior as well on my end, and I have let the rest of the team know.  

We will ping this thread once there is an update.

Vu Chau

Mobile Ads SDK Team

[Michael Vescovo]

I've also been experiencing this problem. Seems there is no workaround. Even if I manually set to night mode in the fragment it still won't do it. I tried doing it at the start of onCreateView and also after the ad is loaded. Really annoying since the app looks nice in night mode.

[Deepika Uragayala- MobileAds SDK team]

Hi Michael,

Our team is still working on this. I will ping this thread and update here if I have any new information.

Regards,

Deepika Uragyala

Mobile AdsSDK Team

[Diego Souza]

Hello,

I'm share the video about my problem, the app is running like this in production. I allowed ads only for this screen. 

The major screens in app has ads, but I load it only for android 6 and lower, because 7 and higher broke all views, some dark and others default(light)

E.g. This screen is a listview with DayNight like Chistopher has mentioned. The white item (cardview) is wrong, taking default theme entead of dark.

I already duplicated the drawables, and layouts for -night extension folder, but without success.

No more ideas :(

Video - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7rxkkBTwBiSRGQ4aXhPcHRHMVE/view?usp=sharing

[Deepika Uragayala- MobileAds SDK team]

Hi Diego,

Thanks for sharing the video. I have passed this to the rest of the team and I will update this thread as soon as I have any new information.

Regards,

Deepika Uragayala

Mobile Ads SDK Team

[Deepika Uragayala- MobileAds SDK team]

Hi Diego,

The white item doesn't look like an AdView. However, can you send us - Charles logs, device logs, Ad Unit IDs and a sample app which helps us to investigate this issue further?

Regards,

Deepika Uragayala

Mobile Ads SDK Team

On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 5:33:28 PM UTC-4, Diego Souza wrote:

[Kamil Karbowski]

Hi,

I have the same issue with my app and spent two weeks trying to fix this till I found this thread.

In my app the problem only appears when I use AdMob with DayNight theme in night mode.

The only one workaround that I found is to set night mode globally with "UiModeManager.setNightMode(UiModeManager.MODE_NIGHT_YES)" but this make another issue with statusbar on some devices (statusbar is getting dark).

Interesting thing is that screen rotation fix this problem (till i restart app).

I recorded three videos to show this issue - I used here Genymotion emulator but this also appears on the real devices.

1. App with AdMob:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9GQP-e6IXQDajV6eTZfQ2RjWVE/view?usp=sharing

2. App wthout AdMob:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9GQP-e6IXQDSmhMUzZlSWR2bDA/view?usp=sharing

3. App with AdMob and I made screen rotation that magically fixes problem (sorry for rotation lag):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9GQP-e6IXQDdHdtdUZpOEdSWFE/view?usp=sharing

[Diego Souza]

You are right, if rotation event or call recreate method. 

If you add ads in footer of listview, the problem apear only after you view ads and scroll (other event after ads load and show).

It's so crazy

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[Deepika Uragayala- MobileAds SDK team]

Hi Kamil/Diego,,

Thanks for sharing the details. I will pass this to the rest of the team for further investigation. I will ping this thread as soon as I have any new information.

Regards,

Deepika Uragayala

Mobile Ads SDK Team

[Kamil Karbowski]

Hi Deepika, 

I hope that You really working on it. It's more than 9 months after one of Your team member was able to reproduce this behavior - after this time still isn't fixed.

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[Diego Souza]

Hi,

I'm sharing a new video (big) using this project and problems.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7rxkkBTwBiSQUN5WENKUG9EVEU/view?usp=sharing

Regards,

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[Deepika Uragayala- MobileAds SDK team]

Hi Diego,

Thanks for sharing the additional information. I will pass this to the team and update this thread as soon as I have any new information.

Regards,

Deepika Uragayala

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On Wednesday, May 17, 2017 at 1:12:50 AM UTC-4, Diego Souza wrote:

Hi,

I'm sharing a new video (big) using this project and problems.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7rxkkBTwBiSQUN5WENKUG9EVEU/view?usp=sharing

Regards,

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[Kamil Karbowski]

One of user from stackoverflow (Mateusz Kaflowski) reproduced this issue and posted code on github:

https://github.com/mkaflowski/BrokenColors

W dniu środa, 17 maja 2017 20:21:46 UTC+2 użytkownik Deepika Uragayala- MobileAds SDK team napisał:

Hi Diego,

Thanks for sharing the additional information. I will pass this to the team and update this thread as soon as I have any new information.

Regards,

Deepika Uragayala

Mobile Ads SDK Team

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Hi,

I'm sharing a new video (big) using this project and problems.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7rxkkBTwBiSQUN5WENKUG9EVEU/view?usp=sharing

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[Deepika Uragayala- MobileAds SDK team]

Hi Kamil,

Thanks for sharing more details. I will pass this to the team and will update this thread if we have any new information.

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Deepika Uragayala

Mobile Ads SDK Team

[Lyudmila Kostik]

Same trouble. Please fix it:(

[Joshua Lagonera (Mobile Ads SDK Team)]

Hi Lyudmila,

This issue is still currently being investigated by the team. As previously stated by my colleague, Deepika, we will update you once we have additional information.

Regards,

Joshua Lagonera

Mobile Ads SDK Team

[Diego Souza]

If you start app from Android Studio start button, and stay in dark mode, only change something in xml(ui) and restart app with instant run button. All content lost dark mode, it's bad and not good behavior.

But it's easy for test(debug)

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[Christopher]

I tested with the newest version "compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:11.0.0'" and this bug still occurs. Could you please fix it?

[Diego Souza]

I changed my implementation, remove day night theme and create one theme for light and other for dark.

This gave me a lot of work but, fix it definitely.

2017-06-09 11:37 GMT-03:00 Christopher <krzysztof.e...@gmail.com>:

I tested with the newest version "compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:11.0.0'" and this bug still occurs. Could you please fix it?

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[Deepika Uragayala- MobileAds SDK team]

Hi Diego,

Glad that you found a work around. I will ping this thread and update you about the fix as soon as I have any new information.

Regards,

Deepika Uragayala

Mobile Ads SDK Team

On Tuesday, June 13, 2017 at 8:48:22 AM UTC-4, Diego Souza wrote:

I changed my implementation, remove day night theme and create one theme for light and other for dark.

This gave me a lot of work but, fix it definitely.

[Christopher]

Yes, I did the same. Now, I'm using a lot of attributes (?attr/...) in layout files. But it's a pity because "day-night" was very comfortable.

[Christopher]

There is another bug when displaying ad from AdMob. In addition to corruption "night mode", there are also locales corrupted.

I'm using "Locale.setDefault(newLocale)", but after displaying ad my locales are removed.

I'm using custom locales because there is ability to change app language in my apps. However after displaying ad, device language is displayed instead of language selected by user.

[Deepika Uragayala- MobileAds SDK team]

Hi Christopher,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I would suggest that you open a new thread for this issue with detailed steps for how to replicate this behaviour and also send us your Ad Unit ID, your app link or a sample project so that we can investigate further.

Regards,

Deepika Uragayala

Mobile Ads SDK Team

[Kamil Karbowski]

Better solution than changing implementation of night theme is just change ads provider. As we can see it is almost one year when one of SDK Team member reproduced this issue and till today they didnt nothing to fix it.

[Deepika Uragayala- MobileAds SDK team]

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for your continued patience. Our team has investigated this issue and found that this is not specific to ads. When the uiMode is reset the first time a WebView is created which is causing the issue. A workaround for this would be to instantiate WebView once at startup, before setting night mode. The Night mode works correctly with ads after that.

Let us know if you still continue to see the issue and I will bring this up with the team again.

Regards,

Deepika Uragyaala

Mobile Ads SDK Team

[sindhu hegde]

Hi Deepika,

         I'm also facing similar issue in my app.Im using textview to diaplay text where parent layout is cardview.In android 7 when night mode is ON,cardview color is not displaying properly its a combination of white and black cardview where it should display only black cardview in night mode(PFA).Please help me with this.

[Deepika Uragayala- MobileAds SDK team]

Hi Sindhu, 

We determined previously that the night mode issue is a general Android problem unrelated to the Mobile Ads SDK.  I also don't see any ads in your screenshot, which leads me to believe that you're not using our SDK. Assuming that's correct, you'll have to look for assistance somewhere that supports general Android inquiries. I would recommend StackOverflow, or similar.

Regards,

Deepika Uragayala

Mobile Ads SDK Team

[sindhu hegde]

Thank u Deepika.

Sorry for not providing full info.

Ads : DFP Ads

Dependency : compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:10.2.1'

Version : Android 7

Issue: Whenever i implement DFP ads to my app ,in night mode it is acting weirdly(PFA).Even text color is changing.If i remove ads its working properly.So i'm confused its Ads issue or any general android problem.

[Deepika Uragayala- MobileAds SDK team]

Hi Sindhu

Thanks for clarifying with more details. Can you confirm whether this is still happening with the latest  version of our SDK? Also, can you check with our sample apps and let us know if you are able to reproduce the issue? As mentioned my previous posts, a workaround for this would be to instantiate WebView once at startup, before setting night mode. The Night mode works correctly with ads after that.

Let us if you are still seeing the issue even after applying the workaround.

Regards,

Deepika Uragayala

Mobile Ads SDK Team

[sindhu hegde]

Hi Deepika,

1.I tried with com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:11.0.4,its not working.

2.I'm unable to recreate the issue in sample app may be bcoz its 1 page(we are using cardview inside recyclerview).

3.I'm creating PublisherAdview(DFP) dynamically everytime before showing Ad.If i add PublisherAdview in xml file ,its not working.

PublisherAdView publisherAdView=new PublisherAdView(context);
publisherAdView.setAdSizes(AdSize.LARGE_BANNER);
publisherAdView.setAdUnitId(DFP_LARGE_BANNER_ID);
PublisherAdRequest adRequest = new PublisherAdRequest.Builder().build();

publisherAdView.loadAd(adRequest);

In the above code if i comment loadAd line,then App works fine.

As u suggested i tried instantiate  PublisherAdView before calling nightmode,then also its not working.

May be the way i implemented Ads code is wrong,OR instantiating PublisherAdView is wrong,So little confused with this.Please help me out with this OR give me code snippet to instantiate it.

Thanks in advance.

[Chris Feldman (Mobile Ads SDK Team)]

Hi Sindhu,

You're correct that your SDK code is causing this behavior. However, the issue is not with the SDK, but with Android in general. The problem is that Android is resetting the uiMode the first time a WebView is instantiated. Because the SDK uses WebViews, it is resetting night mode upon SDK initialization. This is unavoidable from a Mobile Ads SDK perspective.

As a workaround, we have found that instantiating a WebView immediately before turning on night mode and initializing the SDK solves the issue. If this is no longer working, I would again suggest looking for support somewhere that deals with general Android issues.

Regards,

Chris Feldman

Mobile Ads SDK Team

[sdk locator]

Anyone find a work around for this without having to keep two separate light and dark themes? The problem I am running into is documented here. It is kind of bad for us because we use the webview for app a lot. It is going to be a big change to get rid of it now. :(

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi there,

Thank you for reaching out to us.

As per the rest of the thread, you may try instantiating a WebView as a workaround, just before turning on night mode and initializing the SDK. I would also recommend posting your concern over to StackOverflow, as this is more of an Android-related implementation issue than an SDK-related one.

Regards,
Ziv Yves Sanchez
Mobile Ads SDK Team

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