Bug: native test ads don't match what they are published about

[Liran Barsisa]

Look here:

https://developers.google.com/admob/android/test-ads#demo_ad_units

When I tried "Native Video" demo ad unit ("ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/1044960115"), it indeed showed a video.

However, when I tried "

Native" ("ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/2247696110") , it still showed a video...

There is also a demo ad unit for full screen native ads ("ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/7342230711")  but yet again, it includes videos: 

So no idea what's the difference between them and what's the point in having multiple ones that do the same thing and I can't test in various scenarios.

How can I test an image or just text for native ads?

Or even more cases, such as RTL texts for the ads?

Please offer a decent amount of native test ad unit IDs, each with a good representation of possible scenario.

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hi,

Thank you for contacting the Mobile Ads SDK Support team.

Regarding RTL support, I’ve raised the concern to our wider team for further review.

In the meantime, to test video and text ads, we recommend using test creative types by passing the appropriate extras via a Bundle during ad request integration.

Thanks,
 

Mobile Ads SDK Team

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[2025-10-16 20:59:53Z GMT] This message is in relation to case "ref:!00D1U01174p.!500Ht01vR17T:ref" (ADR-00335733)

[Liran Barsisa]

Thank you. 

However, that doesn't answer what I wondered: what's the point in demo ad units of "Native" vs "Native video" and full-screen-native-ad , if all of them do the same thing?

Also, why put this page you've mentioned ("Test creative types") so far from the page I've shown, which your page even links to:

https://developers.google.com/admob/android/test-ads
?
They should be together, because even on your page of "Test creative types", it says this:
"Note: The ft_ctype parameter only works in Test Mode."

So, even more reason it should be in the test mode screen, or at least be mentioned there...

About RTL, thank you. This is important to check proper text and layout directions. 
You should also check it well in the other types of ad-networks, because I've seen some bad cases there...

[Liran Barsisa]

In addition, please show explanation about each value there. It's not clear. Maybe provide screenshots...

[Liran Barsisa]

I tried "text_display", "partial_slot", "text_app_install", "image_app_install", and they all showed me a video for the ad unit of ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/1044960115 .

So, this API is buggy.

Not to mention I have a lot of no-fill errors for the demo ad-units (happened for "ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/7342230711"), which doesn't make sense. 

Those are demo ads, so they should be cached for demonstrations, never reach such a situation...