Monetizing your app can be a nice way to get something back for the effort and love that you’ve put into your Xamarin.Forms app. One way of doing it is by adding ads to your app. In this video I will show you how you can include Google AdMob ads in your Xamarin.Forms application without too much hassle.

We will learn about a plugin that you can use for this, how to show banners, interstitial ads and even reward video advertisements!

🔗 Links
Sample code Repo: https://github.com/jfversluis/XFAdMobSample
Plugin Repo: https://github.com/marcojak/MTAdmob
Plugin Blogpost:https://www.xamarinexpert.it/admob-made-easy/

Xamarin Forms Repo: https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms

⏱ Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:30 AdMob Plugin Blogpost & GitHub Repository
2:00 Outline Sample App
2:35 Install ATAdMob NuGet
3:40 Important Note About the IDs for Testing
4:20 Make iOS and Android Apps Metadata Ready for Showing Ads
6:48 Add Initialization Code
9:30 Implement Banner Ad
11:25 Run Sample App (Banner Ad)
11:57 Important Notes About Privacy!
13:10 Implement Video Reward and Interstitial Ads
18:04 Run Sample App (Video and Interstitial)
19:15 Where to Find the IDs in Google AdMob
20:58 Outro

#xamarin #android #ios #ads #admob