Admob banner slow down the app and doing too many work on main thread - Android

Question

I have an activity that contain RecycleView with maximum 30 items. Every item contains 2 to 3 text views and 1 button. I have animation on clicking the button.

Before adding admob banner, the performance was really good, scrolling was smooth.

After adding admob banner, the scroll is cutting, clicking the button take a bit to respond. Aditionally, i see message shows me that Too many work on main thread!

Is there any suggestion about how to fix it ? Or what can help making it better ? How can I get smooth scrolling with admob banner enabled?

Hopefully I am not the only one facing this problem!

UPDATE:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
        android:paddingTop="30dp"
        android:paddingBottom="64dp"
        android:clipToPadding="false"
        android:id="@+id/rv_Test"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent" />


    <com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView
        android:id="@+id/adView"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_gravity="center|bottom"
        ads:adSize="BANNER"
        ads:adUnitId="@string/banner_ad_unit_id" />

</RelativeLayout>

We need a little more explanation I think. Where is the admob banner located? is it in a separate view? for example, ..... ? — Saehun Sean Oh, Dec 14 '15 at 22:25
Can you post where you banner is located? You are calling this banner in your adapter view? Post your adapter code and the part you are calling the banner. — diogojme, Dec 15 '15 at 19:41
I think is nothing relationed with the banner, i think you are doing heavy process in your onBindViewHolder and may your animation is too heavy to run in the `Main Thread` when you click in the button. Consider put it in a `Separated Thread`, like `Runnable` , check this answer http://stackoverflow.com/q/11123621/1879661 — diogojme, Dec 15 '15 at 20:14

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 24 '15 at 11:26

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It Seams that adView is the problem than I have replaced the adView with NativeContentAdView to use the Native Ads

Now the scroll is smooth

This is the link of the doc https://developers.google.com/admob/android/native

answered Dec 24 '15 at 11:26

Davide

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 19 '21 at 19:55

Admob takes some time to load the ads in start so load ads with some delay after activity transition animation is completed :

Handler handler = new Handler ();
handler.postDelayed (new Runnable () {
 @Override
 public void run () {
      AdRequest bannerRequest = new AdRequest.Builder (). Build ();
      mAdView.loadAd (bannerRequest);
 }
}, 2000);

Admob banner slow down the app and doing too many work on main thread - Android

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