RevMob Integration Questions

[goshfather]

I'm trying to follow the steps to integrate RevMob ads into my kivy app using their method at:

http://sdk.revmobmobileadnetwork.com/kivy.html#session But I have a question. 

1. It says to add the required permisson in your AndroidManifest.xml file by putting the a code snippet into a tag. My question is...where is the "AndroidManifest.xml" file located? I checked here on the google groups and one guy said it was in the /.buildozer directory, but when I did a file search on my computer, it's in the /.android directory of my home folder.

2. Then it says to add the required RevMob activity in the application node...is that in the AndroidManifest.xml as well?

3. and in the buildozer.spec file, do i have to add "RevMob" to the list of required modules along with the others ex: plyer

4. It sayed to download the AdMob kivy sdk but it doesnt mention anything about using or how to install it. Why would I have to download it if I dont use it at all?

p.s. I really do like how AdMob has it's own method made specifically for kivy!! I just gota figure out how to implement it!

thanks for reading.

[Kovak]

From a discussion earlier this year:

Just in case somebody stumbles upon this post in the future, Google changes its Developer Program Policy in August 1st 2014, which demanded Revmob SDK to be updated, which it wasn't. The latest Revmob Kivy SDK dates from February 2014 and it has a couple of issues, such as the fullscreen doesn't work and the direct link won't send you to Google Apps, but directly opens in the browser the webpage of the product being advertised.

I've contacted Revmob and got this reply:

"Even though it still works, I'm sorry to warn you that we no longer support Kivy SDK related issues, nor will we update it anymore."

[goshfather]

So are there ANY ad networks that are compatible with kivy?

[Milos Bulatovic]

Isn't it already possible to put any ad, I thought I saw that solution somewhere.

[Gabriel Pettier]

There is AdBuddiz, with a method described in the wiki.

https://github.com/kivy/kivy/wiki/AdBuddiz-Android-advertisements-integration-for-Kivy-apps

On Thu, Jan 01, 2015 at 12:03:39AM -0800, Milos Bulatovic wrote:
> Isn't it already possible to put any ad, I thought I saw that solution
> somewhere.
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[goshfather]

Do they still have "active" support for kivy? Or is it another RevMob story? And also, I see for all these sdk integrations that I have to add their "activity" to my apps "AndroidManifest.xml". Where can this file be found on linux? In my home dir? Under /.buildozer, /.android?

[Milos Bulatovic]

I believe for your app you have to put the android manifest settings inside your .buildozer/android/platform/python-for-android/dist/default/templates/AndroidManifest.tmpl.xml file. That's when working with buildozer.

[goshfather]

thanks man. So buildozer uses one AndroidManifest.tmpl.xml file for all builds? I guess I'll have to be careful to remove AdBuddiz activity right after in order to keep my builds "Clean" 

[Milos Bulatovic]

So buildozer uses one AndroidManifest.tmpl.xml file for all builds?

I don't know what you mean by this. If you think about builds for other apps, I have a separate buildozer for each app.

[goshfather]

oh ok there is a AndroidManifest.tmpl.xml for each application build. But how do i open the AndroidManifest.tmpl.xml file in order to edit it. I try opening it even with sudo but it still tells me permission is denied