Admob issue when using GridLayoutManager with RecyclerView

Question

I have a recyclerview with GridLayoutManager and have its spancount as 3. I have two viewtypes - one for the recyclerview items and one for ads(admob). Following is the result when my spancount is 3

You can see that the ad is not visible, now when i change the spancount to 1 it becomes visible like below

i think this is because the admob ads don't support these dimensions, is there a work around for this?

the ad is not showing up even if i try to hardcode the adsize My question is that is there a way to fit the adview into my recyclerview with GridLayoutManager and spancount as 3

Answer 1

Yes, this is possible. All you have to do is to call setSpanSizeLookup on your layout manager like below

mLayoutManager.setSpanSizeLookup(new GridLayoutManager.SpanSizeLookup() {
    @Override
    public int getSpanSize(int position) {
        if (position % MainActivity.ITEMS_PER_AD == 0) {//your condition for showing ad
            return 3;//replace 3 with the number of items in each row
        }
        return 1;
    }
});

And then set the layout manager to your recyclerview.