Amazon's Ad network has a free Kindle HD promotion
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| This is interesting, and time sensitive too: https://developer.amazon.com/sdk/mobileads.html It appears to basically be a free Kindle HD giveaway/promotion for integration of Amazon Ads in your mobile app, but there are a lot of details, time constraints, minimum impressions requirements, etc, so worth reading about and checking out. I was able to modify the Java produced by Monkey and replace the Admob references with Amazon code in about 30 minutes in one of my apps. The 2 networks/SDK's are extremely similar. Maybe the Amazon ad network can be part of the Monkey core? It's literally a change to just a few lines of code from the Admob integration. |
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| I've seen this... and I'm out. You need something like 500 'hits' per week during some months, and they are not responsible for other countries taxes when sending the device, so here in Brazil it would cost me an arm and an leg, even it being free :/ |
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| Well Amazon says you have to send at least 500 ad requests per week. That's almost NOTHING. Even my less downloaded apps have about 30,000 per month. It's not clicks it's just impressions. |
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| I was able to modify the Java produced by Monkey and replace the Admob references with Amazon code in about 30 minutes in one of my apps. The 2 networks/SDK's are extremely similar. Do you mind to share these replacements? Thanks! |
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| Right, it says 500 requests per week, that's pretty easy to get actually. I definitely have a couple apps that would get me there quite easily, so I'm excited. As for the changes, I haven't really documented what I did, but it was very easy to swap out AdMob references for Amazon, and I used the simple sample app too get the job done + documentation about the ad sizes. Hopefully I'll have some time and I can post it here. |
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| Ah great, now I should be able to find that as well. Just out of curiosity, I never did a build with Eclipse or something similar, I guess I will have to install all this stuff to rebuild the project or have you changed the stuff in the brl.admob module? |
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| I think changing the or making a copy of and creating a new module would be a nice idea, just copy brl.admob and the java admob native code and rename them amazon and make the appropriate changes. I'd love to try for this but I still don't have anything on the market. |
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| Alright I did an Amazon Ads module similar to the Admobs BRL one. Will post it asap. |
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| I didn't think of just changing the admob module.... uhg, that would have been smarter. I just jump into Eclipse. I used it for 2 years to make Android games before Monkey, so I find myself falling back whenever there's a problem :) |
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| Looking forward to your post xaron , doubt my little game will the required impressions but hay its worth s try |
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| benmc have you got it to work. I have no ads showing due to an SQLite exception. Looks like I'm not the only one... https://forums.developer.amazon.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1306 Here's the module btw: http://www.leidel.net/dl/monkey/amazonads.zip You have to add #AMAZON_APP_KEY="your key here" to the targets/android/template/config.monkey file |
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| Looks like the Amazon guys really messed it up. lol It works on the emulator and maybe even works on their Kindle stuff so I'll just submit it! |
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| Oh well I see you have to refresh the ads by yourself. How stupid is that? I've added a LoadAd method you should call every 20 seconds or more. |
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| I did get it to work, but it looks like I'll have to update my app to get it to refresh itself every 30 seconds. Awesome that you have a module!!! I'll have to give it a try too. |
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| Well yes just call LoadAd in the module to reload an ad. I've submitted my first game with that module and it works! :) |
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| I'm trying to get this stuff working. Example:
Import mojo
Import amazonads
Global aads:AmazonAds
Class MyApp Extends App
Method OnCreate()
aads = AmazonAds.GetAmazonAds()
aads.ShowAdView(1, 1) '1,1 0,1 1,0
SetUpdateRate 15
End Method
Method OnUpdate()
If TouchHit()
aads.LoadAd()
Print "ad loaded"
Print "width+height:"+aads.AdViewWidth()+ " "+aads.AdViewHeight()
EndIf
End
Method OnRender()
Cls
DrawText("hello world", 10, 10)
End
End
Function Main()
New MyApp
End
I've added #AMAZON_APP_KEY="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" to C:\Monkey\targets\android\template\config.monkey I see no Ads. The amazon control center shows me that their are requests but no impressions and a fill rate of 0%. Are my ShowAdView() parameters corrects? |
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| Got my Kindle Fire HD today. :) The US guys are more lucky as they get a free upgrade to the HDX... |
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| I haven't received mine just yet. Hopefully it will arrive soon. I am in the US and was very happy to get the upgrade to the HDX for free. |
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| Lucky guy! :D |
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| Just got a mail where Amazon apologies for sending the wrong (8GB Kindle Fire HD instead of 16GB). So now I get another one but this time the HDX! How cool is that? :D |
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| Awesome that is! |
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| @Xaron - thanks for the module. |
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| @Supertino: You're welcome :) HDX is there! What a powerful device! |
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| I just bought the FireHD 7" - £99 on Amazon - why the hell not |
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| Yep, it's an incredible device even with the "Amazon limitations" ;) |
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| It's certainly not as nice as my nexus 7 (2013), its thicker and heavier but a good tablet to let the nephews use when they come round rather than scratch up my N7. |
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