Integrate AdFalcon with mediation

  • This guide helps publishers integrate AdFalcon with Google Mobile Ads mediation in their Android apps.

  • You need an existing Android app with the Google Mobile Ads SDK and an AdMob account with configured ad units.

  • Integration involves adding the AdFalcon SDK and adapter to your project and configuring your AndroidManifest.xml file.

  • The Google Mobile Ads SDK handles communication with the AdFalcon adapter to fetch ads, but you can customize request parameters if needed.

  • Initializing your ad objects with an Activity instance is recommended for optimal performance with mediated ad networks.

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

AdFalcon Resources
Documentation
SDK
Adapter
Customer support

Prerequisites

Helpful primers

The following Help Center articles provide background information on mediation:

Add AdFalcon to your project

Include network adapter and SDK

Download the AdFalcon 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 AdFalcon documentation.

Your app doesn't need to call AdFalcon directly—Google Mobile Ads SDK calls the AdFalcon 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 AdFalcon.

Initialize your ad object with an Activity instance

In the constructor for a new ad object (for example, AdView), 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.