##ABOUT: this piece of code is a proof of concept for the integration of admob in a Kivy project. it used to work fairly well with the old toolchain of python-for-android, as well as on iOS8+.

##ANDROID:

1. Open the Android SDK Manager and download "Google Repository" and "Google Play services" which are in the Extras category.

2. Copy the google-play-services_lib folder from ANDROIDSDK/extras/google/google_play_services/libproject to your app folder (where you keep your main.py)

3. Edit your buildozer.spec and add

android.meta_data = com.google.android.gms.version=@integer/google_play_services_version
android.library_references = google-play-services_lib

4. Update your android project to take google play services into account:

$ android update project --subprojects -t 1 -p ./google-play-services_lib/

5. Add an activity to the Androidmanifest.tmpl.xml to handle the ads:

<activity android:name="com.google.android.gms.ads.AdActivity"
            android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenLayout|uiMode|screenSize|smallestScreenSize"
            android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent" 
            android:process=":python"
/>

6. Update your settings.py with your admob unitID and devices hashes

$ cp settings.py.sample settings.py && vim settings.py

7. Build your android app

$ buildozer android debug

=> DONE

##IOS:

1. create kivy-ios project

2. follow https://developers.google.com/admob/ios/quick-start#manually_using_the_sdk_download to add the mandatory frameworks.

3. run on a testing device.

##Important notes:

• Don't mess with Google by cliquing on your own ads to generate traffic, you will be catched, and then banned from the service.