General question on Google Mobile Ads SDK support on TV devices

[Jerry Tian]

Hi, 

What is current status of Google Mobile Ads SDK support on smart TV devices? More specifically, for Amazon Fire TV? 

I am helping with a Android TV product(which runs Amazon's Fire OS),  and we intends to monetize it through Google Mobile Ads. 

There is not much I can find by searching Google Mobile Ads SDK support for Android TV, and only a few discussion on Fire OS  support, like this:

Admob support for Fire OS

So we just go ahead with our integration test.

So far, the integration part following the official document went well, and we can see a test interstitial AD popup, but, there are some serious issues popping up.

A working test AD we got(this demo is running on real  Fire TV device, we are using a capture device here to help with our development):

But, even with test AD setup, the interstitial AD is not always rendered correctly, a bad one is like this:

 

During our tests over 10 launches, we only got the correct rendering in one launch, and we didn't find some suspicious logging output from logcat.

Second, even with the correct rendering of the interstitial AD, only the close button is working as expected, all the other clickable UI elements, like the "Open" button, will not work. Though they can be highlighted when we use the TV controller to move around.

Still, we didn't find some suspicious logging output from logcat.

Any information or suggestion on this will be much appreciated.

Thanks.

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hi,

Thank you for contacting the Mobile Ads SDK Support team. 

Please note that the Google Mobile Ads SDK for Android does not support Android TV.

The Google Mobile Ads SDK does support devices that don't have Google Play, but the library cannot automatically update itself the way it does on devices with Google Play. To update such devices, you must manually update the Google Play services SDK in your app. For more information, kindly refer to the Android TV. 

Thanks,
 

Mobile Ads SDK Team

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[2025-03-10 06:15:39Z GMT] This message is in relation to case "ref:!00D1U01174p.!5004Q02vH80w:ref" (ADR-00292972)