Native Validator not working

[No body]

Hi,

Following this guideline https://developers.google.com/admob/android/native/validator , I create a native ad demo which won't show headlines in test devices.

But I can't see the popup window to alert me, I'm pretty sure I do this correctly in every single step.

I am not sure what is this mean in  policy page 
----> " Ensure that the whitespace (or background image) is not clickable."

Is it illegal to make the red circle area clickable in the image below?

Thanks very much.

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out to us.

With regards to your concern "Is it illegal to make the red circle area clickable in the image below?", yes, making that area clickable will result in a violation. In summary:

• Only the ad titles, URLs, CTA, and non-background image assets should be clickable.
• Check for extra whitespace around text that you did not intend to place.
• The TextViews used to display native ad assets are the same as any other, so you can use normal layout techniques to format them.
• For example, you can use the wrap_content attribute value to make sure your TextView doesn't expand beyond the size it needs to display its text.

With regards to native ad demo, would you kindly provide us a sample app project so we may 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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Mobile Ads SDK Team

[No body]

Thanks very much,

I test it with the official demo in github, the demo URL is :
https://github.com/googleads/googleads-mobile-android-examples/blob/main/java/admob/NativeAdvancedExample/

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hello,

Thank you for responding back. I tried removing other assets as well (body, callToAction, star rating, etc.) while testing and I'm not able to trigger the Native validator as well. With that, Allow me to share this to a wider team for further investigation. I'll let you know the soonest I hear back from them.

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hi no body,

I can confirm that I see an issue, give us some time to look into / fix this.

As a work around please use this alternative test ad unit ID "ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/5461706322"

Hope this helps, 
Nick

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