How do I show and hide admob banner ads?

Giving another chance to this comunity, my latest questions weren't ever answered

Well I have a game, the game have a pause button that hide most of the game interface to just show a pause text in the middle. There are so much free space, so I thought to put a banner at the bottom until the pause button is pressed again and resumes the game.

I know how to make banners work:

//When pause button is pressed
AdView adView = (AdView) this.findViewById(R.id.adView);
adView.setVisibility (View.VISIBLE);
AdRequest adRequest = new AdRequest.Builder().build();
adView.loadAd(adRequest);

But I don't know how to stop them when pause button is pressed again, just this:

adView.setVisibility (View.GONE);

I am pretty sure adView wont stop making requests with this line only.

I see some questions about this here but looks like they were using older admob SDK versions.

can somebody please, PLEASE help me?

Thanks.

Solution

You can try to Destroy and hide the AdView when button click and load the ad back when required.

    final AdView adView = (AdView) this.findViewById(R.id.adView);
    final AdRequest adRequest = new AdRequest.Builder().build();
    adView.loadAd(adRequest);

    button.setText("ClickMe");
    button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
         boolean isPause = false;
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            if(isPause){
                adView.loadAd(adRequest);
                adView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
                isPause = false;
            }else {
                adView.destroy();
                adView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
                isPause = true;
            }
        }
    });