How to implement Native Ads without MediaView

Question

I want to implement Native Ads in RecyclerView without MediaView, So referred to this tutorial after following this I successfully implemented native ads in RecyclerView but my need is to load only icon, heading, advertiser and call to action button not the MediaView, etc.

So I removed the MediView and other elements Code from the implementation which I made after which the code looks like this

UnifiedNativeAdViewHolder.java

package com.mishracodes.myapplication;

import android.view.View;
import androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView;
import com.google.android.gms.ads.formats.UnifiedNativeAdView;
public class UnifiedNativeAdViewHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder {
    private UnifiedNativeAdView adView;
    public UnifiedNativeAdView getAdView() {
        return adView;
    }
    UnifiedNativeAdViewHolder(View view) {
        super(view);
        adView = view.findViewById(R.id.ad_view);
        adView.setHeadlineView(adView.findViewById(R.id.ad_headline));
        adView.setCallToActionView(adView.findViewById(R.id.ad_call_to_action));
        adView.setIconView(adView.findViewById(R.id.ad_icon));
        adView.setAdvertiserView(adView.findViewById(R.id.ad_advertiser));
    }
}

and inside the RecyclerViewAdapter.java the part of code which manages NativeAdView

private void populateNativeAdView(UnifiedNativeAd nativeAd,
                                      UnifiedNativeAdView adView) {
        ((TextView) adView.getHeadlineView()).setText(nativeAd.getHeadline());
        ((Button) adView.getCallToActionView()).setText(nativeAd.getCallToAction());
        NativeAd.Image icon = nativeAd.getIcon();

        if (icon == null) {
            adView.getIconView().setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
        } else {
            ((ImageView) adView.getIconView()).setImageDrawable(icon.getDrawable());
            adView.getIconView().setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        }
        if (nativeAd.getAdvertiser() == null) {
            adView.getAdvertiserView().setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
        } else {
            ((TextView) adView.getAdvertiserView()).setText(nativeAd.getAdvertiser());
            adView.getAdvertiserView().setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
        }
        adView.setNativeAd(nativeAd);
    }

loading Native Ad function in MainActivity.java

    private void loadNativeAds() {

        AdLoader.Builder builder = new AdLoader.Builder(this, getString(R.string.ad_unit_id));
        adLoader = builder.forUnifiedNativeAd(
                new UnifiedNativeAd.OnUnifiedNativeAdLoadedListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onUnifiedNativeAdLoaded(UnifiedNativeAd unifiedNativeAd) {
                        mNativeAds.add(unifiedNativeAd);
                        if (!adLoader.isLoading()) {
                            insertAdsInMenuItems();
                        }
                    }
                }).withAdListener(
                new AdListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onAdFailedToLoad(int errorCode) {
                        Log.d("MainActivity", "The previous native ad failed to load. Attempting to"
                                + " load another.");
                        if (!adLoader.isLoading()) {
                            insertAdsInMenuItems();
                        }
                    }
                }).build();
        adLoader.loadAds(new AdRequest.Builder().build(), NUMBER_OF_ADS);
    }

Now after doing this I used Native Ad Validator to validate if the ads are implemented correctly Result:

But After testing it for sometime I got this error

Warning in detail

So Is there any way to Call for Loading Native Ad so that only those ads are called which do not have Media View. As I have Seen Many Apps which uses native ads like this without Media View.

Answer 1

We can but it was possible before as Google made it mandatory to add MediaView. Also it's a good idea as your revenue would be increased but it may affect the user experience. Finally, you can't do this because if you upload it to the play store then Google will send you a warning notice saying that you didn't add MediaView. It may affect your earnings.