Reducing latency
The key to reducing latency in your IMA-enabled app is to do as much
IMA-related set up as early as possible. You can do all of the following in your
app as early as you like before playing ads:
- Define your content playhead tracker
- Create your
AdDisplayContainer
- Create your
ImaSdkFactory
- Create your
AdsLoader
- Create your
AdsManager
- Request ads
- Obtain your
AdsManager instance and register event handlers
Doing all of the above initializes the IMA SDK and request and parse your
ads response all before your user even clicks play on your video. When you're
ready to play the ads, call AdsManager.init() and wait for the
LOADED event to play ads.
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Last updated 2025-02-07 UTC.
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