Integrate Zucks with Mediation

  • This guide helps publishers integrate Zucks ads into their Android apps using Google Mobile Ads mediation.

  • It involves adding the Zucks SDK and adapter to your project and configuring your app's manifest file.

  • Google Mobile Ads SDK handles communication with Zucks, fetching ads on your behalf.

  • Initialization of ad objects with an Activity instance is recommended for optimal compatibility with mediated ad networks.

This guide is intended for publishers who are interested in using Google Mobile Ads mediation with Zucks. It walks through the setup of a mediation adapter to work with your current Android app and the configuration of additional settings.

Zucks Resources
Documentation
SDK
Adapter
Customer support

Prerequisites

Add Zucks to your project

Include network adapter and SDK

Download the Zucks SDK and adapter from the previous links.

In Android Studio, include the adapter and SDK files in your project's libs folder. Make sure that your app-level Gradle file includes the following:

Kotlin 

dependencies {
    implementation(fileTree(mapOf("dir" to "libs", "include" to listOf("*.aar", "*.jar"))))
    // ...
}

Groovy 

dependencies {
    implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.aar', '*.jar'])
    // ...
}

Configure the AndroidManifest.xml file

Modify your AndroidManifest.xml file as instructed in the Zucks documentation.

Your app doesn't need to call Zucks directly—Google Mobile Ads SDK calls the Zucks adapter to fetch ads on your behalf. If necessary, you can specify any additional request parameters. The rest of this page details how to provide more information to Zucks.

Initialize your ad object with an Activity instance

In the constructor for a new ad object (for example, AdManagerAdView), you must pass in an object of type Context. This Context is passed on to other ad networks when using mediation. Some ad networks require a more restrictive Context that is of type Activity and may not be able to serve ads without an Activity instance. Therefore, we recommend passing in an Activity instance when initializing ad objects to ensure a consistent experience with your mediated ad networks.