Overview
Native ads are an ad format that allows you to freely customize the ad UI to match your app’s design. You can provide a natural user experience by individually placing elements such as ad creatives (images, videos), headline, body, and CTA buttons.Key Features
- Complete UI Customization: Freely configure ad layout to match your app’s design system
- Various Media Support: Image and video ad creative support
- Flexible Click Area Settings: Full click or individual element click handling
- Profile Information Display: Advertiser profile logo, name, and link support
Classes and Interfaces
AdropNativeAd
Main class for loading and managing native ads.String
required
Ad unit ID (issued from console)
String
ID for contextual targeting (optional)
AdropNativeAdListener
Listener to handle ad events
Boolean
default:"false"
Whether to use custom click handling
Key Properties
AdropNativeAdView
Container view for displaying native ads.Boolean
default:"false"
Whether to enable entire area click. When set to
true, click events occur on the entire ad view area.Key Methods
AdropMediaView
Media container view for displaying ad images or videos.AdropNativeAdListener
Interface for handling ad events.AdropNativeAdProfile
Data class containing advertiser profile information.Implementation Guide
1. XML Layout Setup
Define the layout to display native ads. UseAdropNativeAdView as the root and place ad elements inside.
res/layout/native_ad_layout.xml
2. Load and Display Ad (Kotlin)
3. Load and Display Ad (Java)
Java
Advanced Features
Entire Click Area Setting
You can set the entire ad view area to trigger click events.When
isEntireClick is set to true, the entire ad view becomes a clickable area. Individual element click listeners will not work.Individual Element Click Listeners
You can set custom click listeners on specific ad elements.Contextual Targeting
You can request ads matching a specific context.Using in RecyclerView
You can display native ads as items in a RecyclerView.RecyclerView Adapter
Test Unit IDs
Use the following test unit IDs during development and testing.Lifecycle Management
Resource Release in Activity/Fragment
Native ads must be released when no longer in use to prevent memory leaks.Resource Release in RecyclerView
When using ads in a RecyclerView Adapter, all ads must be released when the Activity or Fragment is destroyed.Video Tracking and VTR
Adrop measures video metrics for native creatives — including impression-to-completion (VTR),onAdVideoStart, and onAdVideoEnd — only when the video is rendered through the SDK’s media surface (AdropMediaView bound via AdropNativeAdView.setMediaView(...)). This applies to the ad’s main media (Media 1). For the other media items of a multi-media creative, see Multi-Media Creatives.
The AdropNativeAd.asset property returns a URL pointing to the underlying image or video file. It is exposed as supplementary metadata (for example, for thumbnails or your own analytics); it is not intended to drive playback.
Recommended pattern
Bind the SDK media surface for every video native:If a placement absolutely requires a custom player and you accept that VTR will not be measured, you can still surface click and impression attribution by keeping the ad bound to
AdropNativeAdView. In that case, treat the placement as non-VTR inventory in your internal reporting and avoid mixing it with SDK-measured video performance.Multi-Media Creatives
Requires
adrop-ads 1.16.0 or later. If you use backfill, update adrop-ads-backfill to the same version.extraAssets holds every media item of the ad, keyed by the media ID set in the console. Media 1 is always m1, and the other media items use the IDs shown in Media Size on the Ad Unit detail screen, such as m2 and m3.
- Media 1 (
m1) is the same media asassetandcreative. Keep displaying it withAdropMediaView, and draw only the other media items yourself. extraAssetsis empty for creatives of units with a single media item and for backfill ads. Display those ads as usual.- Look up media items by ID instead of relying on their order.
- If the ad is served in dark mode, image media items are dark mode images too.
- To check your layout with a multi-media creative, preview the creative on a test device.
AdropNativeAsset
Displaying Media Items
- Image: Set
isEntireClick = true. Media items you draw aren’t views registered with the SDK, so in the default click mode a tap on them isn’t counted as a click. With entire click, if Media 1 is a video, taps on its player controls also count as ad clicks. Don’t load thecreativeHTML of an image: it doesn’t report clicks to Adrop. - Video: Play the
creativeHTML, not theassetURL. The HTML contains the video player and its tracking, so video metrics are measured only through it. Place theWebViewoutsideAdropNativeAdView: inside, entire click turns every tap, including taps on the player’s controls, into an ad click. Load the HTML when the ad is about to appear on screen, not in advance. - Landing page: When a user taps the video, its HTML reports the click and asks to open the landing page in a new window or in the same window. With the default
WebViewsettings, both requests arrive inshouldOverrideUrlLoading, so open the requested URL there.
Impressions and Clicks
Impressions, clicks, and video metrics are counted once per ad, not per media item, even when both the SDK and a media item report them.Which taps on a video count as clicks depends on the unit’s video controller setting. With the controller off, every tap on the video is a click. With it on, taps on the play and mute controls aren’t clicks.
Example
This example shows Media 2 (m2) as an image inside AdropNativeAdView, or as a video right below it. Replace m2 with the ID of your unit’s media item.
res/layout/native_multi_media_ad.xml
In a
RecyclerView, create the media item’s WebView when you bind the ad, and remove and destroy it in onViewRecycled().Best Practices
1. Display Only Required Elements
You don’t need to display all ad elements. Selectively use only the elements needed to match your app’s design.2. Use Image Loading Libraries
Use image loading libraries like Glide or Coil when displaying icon, cover, and profile images.3. Reuse Ad Views
When displaying ads in a RecyclerView, cache and reuse ad instances.4. Appropriate Ad Placement
Place ads naturally without degrading user experience.- Content feed: 1 ad every 5-10 items
- Detail screen: Place at bottom of content
- Scroll view: Place to match natural content flow
5. Error Handling
Implement appropriate fallback handling for ad load failures.Complete Example
Batch Loading (loads)
UseAdropNativeAd.loads() to request multiple native ads in a single batched call. This is useful for prefetching a pool of ads to insert into feeds, carousels, or paginated lists.
Signature
Usage
Listener Callbacks
Constraints
- Maximum 5 ads per call. If the server returns more, only the first 5 are delivered.
- Backfill is not applied. If no direct ads fill,
onAdsFailedToReceiveis called withERROR_CODE_AD_NO_FILLregardless of backfill configuration. - Do not call
destroy()insideonAdsReceived. Bind each ad to anAdropNativeAdViewviasetNativeAd(...)or store for later lifecycle, thendestroy()on the parentActivity.onDestroy()(or equivalent). - Unlike
AdropBanner.loads(), the native batch waits for every returned ad to finish rendering before firingonAdsReceived, so each instance is fully rendered on delivery.
Backfill Ads
When backfill ads are enabled, backfill ads are automatically loaded when direct ads are unavailable. Use theisBackfilled property to check if the ad is a backfill ad.
AdChoices Position
For backfill native ads, you can choose which corner displays the AdChoices badge. SetpreferredAdChoicesPosition on the AdropNativeAd instance before calling load().
This setting is a preferred hint for the backfill network and applies only to backfill native ads — direct ads are not affected. The value must be set before
load() is called. The backfill network may override the position depending on its policy.To use backfill ads, add the
io.adrop:adrop-ads-backfill dependency. See Getting Started.Next Steps
Banner Ads
Implement banner ads
Interstitial Ads
Implement interstitial ads
Targeting Settings
User properties and context targeting
Reference
Classes, listeners, error codes