Regarding ANR in admob ads

[srikanth ramisetti]

Google Play has recently instituted a new policy where developers need to stay under a certain ANR threshold or else be punished by Google Play (your app  becomes less discoverable on Google Play because it is considered lower quality). ANR stands for “Application Not Responding” and instances of this are reported on the Google Play Console. Currently, my APP that use AdMob have ANRs that are above the threshold that Google considers “bad behavior”. The problem is that I can’t do anything about it because the majority of my ANRs appear to be from AdMob ads. Many of these have to do with “android.os.MessageQueue.nativePollOnce” and Webview in google ads which, from the research I have done, is not within my control and is an AdMob thing.

Note that I’m using the most up to date ad SDK and I’m even using a new advanced Beta feature from AdMob that is supposed to optimize initialization and loading of ads (see manifest code below), yet I’m still seeing ANRs.

        <meta-data

            android:name="com.google.android.gms.ads.flag.OPTIMIZE_INITIALIZATION"

            android:value="true"/>

        <meta-data

            android:name="com.google.android.gms.ads.flag.OPTIMIZE_AD_LOADING"

            android:value="true"/>

 

Any help you can give me is much appreciated.

[Mobile Ads SDK Forum Advisor]

Hi Srikanth,

 

Thank you for reaching out to us.

 

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