AIR for Android monetizing
I am new to this so forgive me, but i launched a paid version of an AIR for Android App and wanted to launch a free version with ads in an attempt to see how the monetizing of an app goes. Does anyone have experience doing this with AIR for android? if so what are my options?
erik
After a lot of trouble (account canned on ADMOB ) and research, I have gotten Ads to work in all my Android Apps. This will work on a lot of AD networks, but most will ban you click fraud. Only one network allows this method and they provide support for it too.
I have over 100 games apps. with this method implemented and working. Here is a link to one of them for you to see how it will look in game. I am using multiple ads in this to force the user to click and make me some money: https://market.android.com/details?id=air.GraffitiCityMarketFree&feature=search_result
Does LeadBolt offer HTML integration for banner ads?
LeadBolt does allow banner ads to be integrated into your app using HTML, rather than using our SDK. To create a HTML banner ad after adding an app to the LeadBolt portal, simply click “Add Ad” and select “App Banner (HTML)” from the drop down box. The HTML snippet can then be added directly into your app’s HTML framework.
So far my eCPM is $6.15
I have created this guide to show my appreciation:
Publisher Code:
STEP I:
Get an Account: http://leadboltapps.com/web/publishers/signup.php?ref=10022842
STEP II:
Click on the “APPS” tab and “Create New APP” to create an AD. Remember to change content unlocker to HTML Banner. While in the process.
STEP III:
Get the HTML AD Code and keep it safe. That is all we need from the site. How simple was that?
AD HTML FILE:
Create an HTML File and Load it to your site. Remember to replace your HTML Code from above step with where I have put: ****ENTER HTML AD CODE HERE****
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no"/>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
body,td,th {
color: #FFF;
body {
background-color: #000;
margin-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
text-align: center;
position: relative;
</style>
</head>
<body>
****ENTER HTML AD CODE HERE****
</body>
</html>
Action Script Code:
STEP I:
Credit: I found this on another site and would like to give credit to the author of pixelpaton.com
The only change you need to make is to enter your website html url where you have placed the AD HTML FILE in the space where I have put : "****ENTER COMPLETE HTML URL HERE****". Where ever you want the AD, place the following code:
// imports
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.LocationChangeEvent;
import flash.geom.Rectangle;
import flash.media.StageWebView;
import flash.net.navigateToURL;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
// setup variables
var _stageWebView:StageWebView;
var myAdvertURL:String = "****ENTER COMPLETE HTML URL HERE****";
// check that _stageWebView doersn't exist
if (! _stageWebView) {
_stageWebView = new StageWebView () ;
// set the size of the html 'window'
_stageWebView.viewPort = new Rectangle(0,0, 800, 100);
// add a listener for when the content of the StageWebView changes
_stageWebView.addEventListener(LocationChangeEvent.LOCATION_CHANGE,onLocationChange);
// start loading the URL;
_stageWebView.loadURL(myAdvertURL);
// show the ad by setting it's stage property;
_stageWebView.stage = stage;
function toggleAd(event:MouseEvent):void {
trace("toggling advert",_stageWebView);
// check that StageWebView instance exists
if (_stageWebView) {
trace("_stageWebView.stage:"+_stageWebView.stage);
if (_stageWebView.stage == null) {
//show the ad by setting the stage parameter
_stageWebView.stage = stage;
} else {
// hide the ad by nulling the stage parameter
_stageWebView.stage = null;
} else {
// ad StageWebView doesn't exist - show create it
function destroyAd(event:MouseEvent):void {
// check that the instace of StageWebView exists
if (_stageWebView) {
trace("removing advert");
// destroys the ad
_stageWebView.stage = null;
_stageWebView = null;
function onLocationChange(event:LocationChangeEvent):void {
// check that it's not our ad URL loading
if (_stageWebView.location != myAdvertURL) {
// destroy the ad as the user has kindly clicked on my ad
destroyAd(null);
// Launch a normal browser window with the captured URL;
navigateToURL( new URLRequest( event.location ) );
// setup button listeners
Hope this works and helps you. If you have questions, let me know. Enjoy.
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