Combine native ad and banner ad requests

With a few changes to your code, you can combine native and banner ads in your ad requests.

Prerequisites

• Complete the Get started guide.

Load an ad

To make a combined native and banner request, do the following:

1. Pass both NativeAdType.NATIVE type and NativeAdType.BANNER type as a list in the NativeAdRequest.

2. Set at least one banner ad size.

The following examples loads a combined native and banner ad:

Kotlin

val adRequest =
  NativeAdRequest.Builder(AD_UNIT_ID, listOf(NativeAdType.NATIVE, NativeAdType.BANNER))
    // Use setAdSize() or setAdSizes() depending on if you want multiple ad sizes or not.
    .setAdSizes(listOf(AdSize.BANNER, AdSize.LARGE_BANNER))
    .build()

// Load the native and banner ad with the ad request and callback.
NativeAdLoader.load(adRequest, getNativeAdLoaderCallback())

Java

NativeAdRequest adRequest =
    new NativeAdRequest.Builder(AD_UNIT_ID, List.of(NativeAdType.NATIVE, NativeAdType.BANNER))
        // Use setAdSize() or setAdSizes() depending on if you want multiple ad sizes or not.
        .setAdSizes(Arrays.asList(AdSize.BANNER, AdSize.LARGE_BANNER))
        .build();

// Load the native and banner ad with the ad request and callback.
NativeAdLoader.load(adRequest, getNativeAdLoaderCallback());

Key Point: You can only request banner ads through NativeAdRequest when you also request native ads. To make an ad request for banners alone, see Banner. In addition, banners loaded through NativeAdLoader objects don't refresh.

Get the ad from the NativeAdLoaderCallback object

Depending on which type of ad has successfully loaded, the NativeAdLoaderCallback object calls the onNativeAdLoaded() method for native ads and the onBannerAdLoaded() method for banner ads.

The following example gets banner or native ads:

Kotlin

private fun getNativeAdLoaderCallback(): NativeAdLoaderCallback {
  return object : NativeAdLoaderCallback {
    override fun onNativeAdLoaded(nativeAd: NativeAd) {
      // Called when a native ad has loaded.
    }

    override fun onBannerAdLoaded(bannerAd: BannerAd) {
      // Called when a banner ad has loaded.
    }
  }
}

Java

private NativeAdLoaderCallback getNativeAdLoaderCallback() {
  return new NativeAdLoaderCallback() {
    @Override
    public void onNativeAdLoaded(@NonNull NativeAd nativeAd) {
      // Called when a native ad has loaded.
    }

    @Override
    public void onBannerAdLoaded(@NonNull BannerAd bannerAd) {
      // Called when a banner ad has loaded.
    }
  };
}