Admob interstitial with audio

Question

I hope someone can give information about this. I display interstitial ads with Admob. Some of them have music or sounds and my users get terrible annoyed because of this. So, does anyone know if there is a way to block ads with music or sound? Is there anyway to decline access to the loud speaker for the ads? Thanks

Answer 1

I had the same issue. I was shocked to hear some audio in background too. This is what I did. Mute the sound before showing the ad. Unmute the sound onAdClosed() of AdListener. You can set the adListener on the interstitial ad while loading the ad.

private InterstitialAd interstitialAd; private void showTheAd(){     _muteSound();     interstitialAd.show(); }   private void loadAd(){     interstitialAd = new InterstitialAd(context);     interstitialAd.setAdUnitId("ca-app-pub-XXXXXXx/XXXXXXXX");     AdRequest adRequest = new AdRequest.Builder().addTestDevice(             AdRequest.DEVICE_ID_EMULATOR).build();     interstitialAd.loadAd(adRequest);     interstitialAd.setAdListener(new AdListener() {             public void onAdClosed(){                 _unmuteSound();             }         }); }  private void _unmuteSound(){     AudioManager aManager = (AudioManager) mContext.getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE);                 aManager.setStreamMute(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC, false); } private void _muteSound(){     AudioManager aManager = (AudioManager) mContext.getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE);                 aManager.setStreamMute(AudioManager.STREAM_MUSIC, true); } 

Answer 2

to mute an ad, just call MobileAds.setAppmuted(true)

@Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {     super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);     setContentView(R.layout.activity_my);      // Set app volume to be half of current device volume.     MobileAds.setAppVolume(0.5f); // or setAppMuted(true); to mute      ... } 

from their forum page: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-admob-ads-sdk/X7hQeehlJBI

The Google Mobile Ads SDK for Android has methods to set the current volume for incoming ads, based on the device's current volume level.

setAppVolume(float) - available in the Android AdMob SDK version 8.4 and up. setAppMuted(boolean) - available in the Android AdMob SDK version 9.0 and up.

for further readings, refer to https://developers.google.com/admob/android/global-settings and https://developers.google.com/android/reference/com/google/android/gms/ads/MobileAds