GooglePlayService InterstitialAd app restart on android 4.0.4+

[Marco Di Scala]

Hi,

I integrated the googleplayservices in my android app, but some users say that after closing the interstitialAd, the app restarts. 

I tried it on Android 2.3 and everything works fine, but users who reported the problem have Android 4.0.4 or later, so I tried it myself on a samsung galaxy s3 and indeed the app restarts.

It seems that the operating system closes the app to free up memory, but this causes a serious problem if the interstitialAd is shown when the application starts, because the application is always restarted creating a loop.

Has anyone encountered this problem? If yes, how has solved the problem?

Thanks

[Amy Quispe (AdMob SDK Team)]

Hi Marco,

I haven't seen this problem before. Is your app in particular very memory intensive (I know AdMob can be somewhat processor intensive)? Does this happen consistently at every interstitial placement?

Amy Quispe

[Marco Di Scala]

No it isn't, my app is not memory intensive. My app show journal news and after user read the news I show the interstitial.

In normal case, after interstitial is closed, i show the loaded list of news again.

In 4.0.4 case, the app restarts and all the lists are reload. (this happen at every interstitial placement)

I found an other user with my same problem here: http://forums.makingmoneywithandroid.com/advertising-networks/4560-beware-showing-admob-interstitials-app-launch.html but no resolution. (Anyway in my case I doesn't show the interstitial on application startup)

[Amy Quispe (AdMob SDK Team)]

Hi Marco,

That looks like it's a problem with onDismissScreen, and not a resources problem (obviously still a bug). Do you know if the problem you're reporting happens at other points in the app?

Amy Quispe

[Marco Di Scala]

Hi Amy,

I also have another app, and the problem also occurs there. In this other app I show interstitials at different locations.

In this app I have 1 FragmentActivity and many fragments. When interstitial is closed the fragmentactivity is recreated, loosing all the backstack.

I use the supportfragmentmanager, maybe this can help you. All work fine on samsung galaxy mini2 (android 2.3.6).

On all emulators with android 4.0.4+ the problem does not occours.