Optimize initialization and ad loading questions

[Rey Balating]

We think Optimize initialization and ad loading can help us prevent ANRs if we implement it to our Android app.

We'd like to implement it as soon as possible but since it's still in beta, we're concerned about its caveats. What are they? And for those who have implemented it, have you seen any effects to ad performance or ad revenue?

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out to us.

These optimizations improve the overall responsiveness of ads and help prevent "Application Not Responding" (ANR) errors on your app. We have no reported issues that would affect ad performance or ad revenue. But if any issues occur once you implement this in your app, feel free to reach back to us.

Regards,

Mobile Ads SDK Team

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[Rey Balating]

Okay, that's good to know. We will go ahead and implement this. 

[Mr Zero]

@Rey Balating 
Hi, have you applied it to your android app and will it cause a decrease in advertising revenue? I'm also looking forward to using it in my app to reduce ANR and increase app speed. But I don't know what consequences it will have

@Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor

If it doesn't have any impact as you said, why is it still Beta?

Sorry for using google translate

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hi, 

Thank you for getting back to us.

I am unable to provide a scheduled timeline for the availability of this. I would recommend you to please follow our release notes for further updates.

Please reach out to us, if you need any further assistance.

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Thanks,

 

Mobile Ads SDK Team

[Deepak srivastava]

Hi All, 

I believe its about the optimize initialization(https://developers.google.com/ad-manager/mobile-ads-sdk/android/optimize-initialization) . I am trying to find the same configuration for iOS but unable to locate the document. Can someone from you can help me with the same. 

Thanks 

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hi, 

Thank you for contacting Mobile Ads SDK support team. 

unfortunately, there isn't any equivalent feature available for IOS now. keep checking Release notes for any updates regarding this feature.

[Tomáš Kuba]

Hi all, I am following this article and I try to implement the optimalization. The article states that there are two flags: OPTIMIZE_INITIALIZATION and OPTIMIZE_AD_LOADING. In case I do not want to call MobileAds.initialize() in a new Thread, I can use OPTIMIZE_INITIALIZATION. But what about OPTIMIZE_AD_LOADING? Do I need to call it also in case when I call MobileAds.initialize() in the new thread?

The reason I ask is because I noticed that when I set OPTIMIZE_AD_LOADING to TRUE, before the ad loads, the activity layout jumps few pixels up and down. I would like to avoid that, therefore my question is if calling MobileAds.initialize() in the new thread only solves that ANRs you mentioned, or if I need to call OPTIMIZE_AD_LOADING as well. 

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hi,

Thank you for contacting us.

As per your query you would like to initialize the SDK on main thread instead of initializing on a back ground thread. By applying the optimization flags some of the initialization tasks are moved to background thread similarly OPTIMIZE_AD_LOADING flag can be useful in optimizing the ad loading tasks and events related to ad loading process, We recommend you to enable this FLAG if you initialize the SDK on main thread.

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[Tomáš Kuba]

Thank you. But let me clarify my question.

In case I initialize ads on background thread, do I need to set OPTIMIZE_AD_LOADING to true?

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hi,

If you are initializing the SDK on a background thread you don't need to enable this flag.