Dumb ways to die - Landscape interstitial ads.

Hi,

I am working on a game that will have to be played in landscape mode only. I was wondering if it was possible to have landscape interstitial ads from admob but from what I’ve read they are not supported. I have noticed that the app ‘Dumb ways to die’ has landscape interstitials. Does anyone know which ad network provides them or how I could implement them in general?

Well what I did once (and it was totally worth the effort), was re-writing the app code (wasn’t more than 1500 lines, so it was ok) so the app runs in portait but literally everything except the interstitial is rotated by 90 degrees.

There will be better ways of doing it, but this was mine and it made me happy.

Yes, all because STUPID Google was unable to modify some code in their Admob SDK !! Shame on you Google !

Well, my game is landscape and I use AdMob interstitial without a problem… I didnt even know it supposedly wasnt supported.

I may not be remembering the exact issue correctly - if I remember correctly, the Admob interstitials do not respect a hint to keep them locked to landscape etc. - but will always follow the orientation sensor.

So if your app is a game in landscape mode (locked to that) - you cannot make the interstitial be locked to landscape mode (it will still change if you change phone orientation).

I am using Adbuddiz interstitials for my upcoming game. They work perfectly in landscape!

Well, orientation configuration is per-Activity, so it kinda makes sense that the game and the Interstitial aren’t synched (since you configure them separately, and one doesn’t know much about the other).

But supposedly you can configure the orientation of the interstitial activity the way you want, cant you? I mean, using android:screenOrientation=“whatever”, which should be the same way you configured the orientation on your main activity… btw, I havent tested, just guessing.

No - that is the thing - I don’t fully remember the details, but basically Google is NOT respecting the android:screenOrientation=“whatever” tag for the activity for the Admob interstitial (!)

Correct me if I am wrong.

interstitials run in their own activity ,hence 0 respect for the orientation :slight_smile:

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