Doc for Monetizing Ads Campaigns for My LookFind App.

Monetizing Ads Campaigns for My LookFind App.

I’ve published an app LookFind with ads from MobPartner integrated and assisted from the guidance of:

Scott Ferguson – for Optimized Bubble Sort at - SORT

Dmitri Bailey – for his guidance how to integrate MobPartners ads at - Ads Campaigns.

And the following tutorial Appinventor Advertisement Tutorial: how to monetize your app

MIT AI2 team for customizing TinyWebDB service.

After launching the application with ads I started to get updates for the campaigns I’ve subscribed, which to suspend or new ones to add.

Then I realized that every campaign update requires to issue a new version of my app in order to comply with MobPartner requirements.

The solution: I wrote another app AdsManager (source attached) which essentially store the campaigns links in a TinyWebDB and enable to me to remove or update campaigns without modifying my app LookFind.

After you publish your app in without ads in the Play Store, got your approval from MobPartner and subscribed to several campaigns, you have to carry-out the following steps:

For the AdsManager app:
Customize a TinyWebDB Service under your account with a unique name.
Change the TinyWebDB service URL to the one of your customized TinyWebDB here:

Change the TinyWebDB Service Tag to the name of your customized service.

Add the campaigns you have subscribed in the following ADD form

Where you have to enter:

The Campaign Name like:

⦁ The First part of the link after “?s=”  

⦁ The Second part of the link after “&a=”

⦁ Any Optional string after the last “&”

⦁ The Country Code “00” for global campaigns that draw traffic from all over the world or the letters code for a certain country where the campaign is targeted like “US” or “GB”

⦁ Click on the SAVE button, then on the Confirm button to write the campaigns details in your TinyWebDB.

⦁ In case that a campaign is desginated to several countries you have to change only the country code and click on the save and confirm buttons.

Clicking on the VIEW button brings the first campaign details. Hitting the spinner select brings the list of all campaigns and their country codes stored in your TinyWebDB.

Where you select a campain, return and click on the Delete button if you wish to omit it.

I attach also an “ExampleCode” derived from my app LookFind  that shows how to get the user country code and essential code how to get the campaigns links from your TinyWebDB.

You have to change the TinyWebDB tag to same tag that you use in the AdsManager.

Don’t forget to match the TinyWebDB service URL to the same one of the AdsManger.

⦁ The ExampleCode Flow:

·   ⦁ Screen1 Initialize

·   ⦁ AGetUserCountry

·   ⦁ Web1.GotText

·   ⦁ AdsWebDB.GetValue – with your tag to read the TinyWebDB

·   ⦁ AdsWebDB.GotValue

·   ⦁ AdsArrange – to create the campaigns and banners links lists

·   ⦁ Clock_Ads.Timer - Clock_Ads_Bring  - to show the banner image and build the complete campaign link.

·   ⦁ Button_Ads.Click – to access the campaign