Setupad Prebid plugin

This is a Setupad's Flutter plugin that allows its user to display Prebid Mobile SDK banner and interstitial ads in Flutter mobile applications.

Plugin integration

Prerequisites

• Flutter version at least 2.10.5

Android

• minSdkVersion at least 24
• compileSdkVersion at least 33

iOS

• Minimum deployment target at least 12.0

pubspec.yaml

In your pubspec.yaml file’s dependencies include Setupad's Prebid plugin for Flutter and run 'flutter pub get' command in the terminal.

dependencies:
 setupad_prebid_flutter: 0.0.1

Adding app ID

After adding plugin to your project, the next step is to add Google Ad Manager app ID to the project.

Android

Locate your AndroidManifest.xml file, then include the <meta-data> tag inside the <application> tag with your app ID.

<application>
   <meta-data
       android:name="com.google.android.gms.ads.APPLICATION_ID"
       android:value="ca-app-pub-################~##########"/>
   <!--...-->
</application>

iOS

Locate your Info.plist file, then include the GADApplicationIdentifier with your app ID provided by Google Ad Manager. It is optional to include [SKAdNetworkItems] items to your Info.plist file.

<key>GADApplicationIdentifier</key>
<string>ca-app-pub-################~##########</string>

SDK initialization

Prebid Mobile initialization is only needed to be done once and it is recommended to initialize it as early as possible in your project. To initialize it, first include this import in your Dart file:

import 'package:setupad_prebid_flutter/prebid_mobile.dart';

Then, add initializeSDK()method.

const PrebidMobile().initializeSDK(ACCOUNT_ID, TIMEOUT, PBSDEBUG)

• ACCOUNT_ID is a placeholder for your Prebid account ID.
• TIMEOUT is a parameter that sets how much time bidders have to submit their bids. It is important to choose a sufficient timeout - if it is too short, there is a chance to get less bids, and if it is too long, it can slow down ad loading and user might wait too long for the ads to appear.
• PBSDEBUG is a boolean type parameter, if it is set to true, it adds a debug flag (“test”: 1) into Prebid auction request, which allows to display only test ads and see full Prebid auction response. If none of this is required, you can set it to false.

Ads integration

Currently this plugin supports two ad formats: banners and interstitial ads. When creating ad object, it is necessary to specify what ad type it is. Ad type can be written in lowercase (“banner”), uppercase (“BANNER”) or capitalization (“Banner”).

The first step in displaying ads is to import ads library:

import 'package:setupad_prebid_flutter/prebid_ads.dart';

Banner

To display a banner, first you need to create a PrebidAd class object and then add it to your widget.

PrebidAd prebidBanner = const PrebidAd(
  adType: 'banner',
  configId: 'CONFIG_ID',
  adUnitId: 'AD_UNIT_ID',
  width: 300,
  height: 250,
  refreshInterval: 30,
);
//...
@override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    //...
      body: Center(
        child: Column(
          mainAxisAlignment: MainAxisAlignment.center,
          children:[
            prebidAd, //your banner object added to the widget
            //..
         ],
        ),
      ),
    );
  }

AD_UNIT_ID and CONFIG_ID are placeholders for the ad unit ID and config ID parameters. The minimum refresh interval is 30 seconds, and the maximum is 120 seconds.

Controlling banner auction

It is necessary to stop the auction when leaving a screen where the banner ad is displayed because if not stopped, the auction continues happening and displaying ads that are not seen by anyone. To avoid this, use PrebidAd class’ pauseAuction() and resumeAuction methods. In addition, if there is a need, a banner object can be destroyed using the destroyAuction method.

prebidBanner.pause();
prebidBanner.resume();
prebidBanner.destroy();

To correctly control Prebid auction, you need to use the same object you created for your banner; in this case it is prebidBanner.

Interstitial ad

To display an interstitial ad, you first need to create a PrebidAd class object.

PrebidAd prebidInterstitial = const PrebidAd(
  adType: 'interstitial',
  configId: CONFIG_ID,
  adUnitId: AD_UNIT_D,
  width: 80,
  height: 60,
  refreshInterval: 0,
);

AD_UNIT_ID and CONFIG_ID are placeholders. The refresh interval is set to zero because interstitial ads do not refresh. Unlike in the banner ads, in the interstitial ads the width and height variables are used to indicate the minimum screen's width and height in percent that the interstitial ad can take. In this case 80x60 means that the minimum width of the interstitial ad will be at least 80% of the screen and at least 60% of the height. As these size parameters are optional, you can opt out of specifying them by writing zero as their value.

If you want to display an interstitial ad on button press, it is necessary to use setState() with a boolean variable.

bool _showInterstitial = false;
//...
ElevatedButton(
  child: const Text('Press me!'),
  onPressed: () {
    setState(() {
      _showInterstitial = true;
    });
  },
),
if (_showInterstitial)
  prebidInterstitial,
),
//...

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