Integrate Zucks with mediation
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This guide is intended for publishers who are interested in using Google
Mobile Ads mediation with Zucks. It walks
through the setup of a mediation adapter to work with your current Android app
and the configuration of additional settings.
Prerequisites
Helpful primers
The following Help Center articles provide background information on mediation:
Add Zucks to your project
Include network adapter and SDK
Download the Zucks SDK and adapter from the
previous links.
In Android Studio, include the adapter and SDK files in your project's libs
folder. Make sure that your app-level Gradle file includes the following:
Kotlin
dependencies {
implementation(fileTree(mapOf("dir" to "libs", "include" to listOf("*.aar", "*.jar"))))
// ...
}
Groovy
dependencies {
implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.aar', '*.jar'])
// ...
}
Modify your AndroidManifest.xml file as instructed in the
Zucks documentation.
Your app doesn't need to call Zucks
directly—Next Gen Mobile Ads SDK calls the
Zucks adapter to fetch ads on your behalf. If necessary, you can
specify any additional request parameters.
The rest of this page details how to provide more information to
Zucks.
Initialize your ad object with an Activity instance
In the constructor for a new ad object (for example,
AdView),
you must pass in an object of type
Context.
This Context is passed on to other ad networks when using mediation. Some
ad networks require a more restrictive Context that is of type
Activity
and may not be able to serve ads without an Activity instance. Therefore,
we recommend passing in an Activity instance when initializing ad objects
to ensure a consistent experience with your mediated ad networks.
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Last updated 2025-09-04 UTC.
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