Hide Banner Space when there there are no Ads Android

Question

I recently changed from Admob SDK to GPS Lib and there is 1 thing bothering me. I have a simple View to define line in my Layout to prevent users from clicking on ads unintentionally. With Admob SDK that line would drop to the bottom of layout when there are no ads, but with GPS Lib, that View remains where it is.

And when there are no ads, when user is using app in offline mode there is that empty ugly space.

How can I get rid of that space when there are no ads? Here is my XML

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:background="@drawable/back2" >
    <RelativeLayout
        android:id="@+id/upperBar"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="48dp"
        android:background="#000000" >
        <RelativeLayout
            android:id="@+id/RelativeLayout1"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
            android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
            android:background="@drawable/bar"
            android:paddingBottom="2dp"
            android:paddingLeft="2dp"
            android:paddingRight="2dp"
            android:paddingTop="2dp" >
            <ImageButton
                android:id="@+id/infop"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
                android:background="@drawable/info_select_blue" />
            <ImageButton
                android:id="@+id/share"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
                android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
                android:background="@drawable/share_selector_blue" />
            <ImageButton
                android:id="@+id/moreaps"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
                android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
                android:layout_marginRight="20dp"
                android:background="@drawable/more_selector_blue" />
        </RelativeLayout>
    </RelativeLayout>
    <GridView
        android:id="@+id/grid_view"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_above="@+id/view"
        android:layout_below="@+id/sbsz"
        android:columnWidth="110dp"
        android:horizontalSpacing="10dp"
        android:listSelector="#00000000"
        android:numColumns="auto_fit"
        android:verticalSpacing="12dp" >
    </GridView>
    <SeekBar
        android:id="@+id/sbsz"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_below="@+id/upperBar"
        android:progressDrawable="@drawable/apptheme_scrubber_progress_horizontal_holo_dark"
        android:thumb="@drawable/apptheme_scrubber_control_selector_holo_dark" />
    <com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView
        android:id="@+id/adView"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        ads:adSize="SMART_BANNER"
        ads:adUnitId="@string/banner" >
    </com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView>
    <View
        android:id="@+id/view"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="17dp"
        android:layout_above="@+id/adView"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:background="@drawable/bar"
        android:visibility="visible" />

</RelativeLayout>

Answer 1

Hide your adView initially by adding android:visibility="gone"

<com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView
    android:id="@+id/adView"
    android:visibility="gone"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
    ads:adSize="SMART_BANNER"
    ads:adUnitId="@string/banner" >
</com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView>

Now handle adview visibility in setAdListener

adView.setAdListener(new AdListener() {

    @Override
    public void onAdLoaded() {
        adView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
    }

    @Override
    public void onAdFailedToLoad(int error) {
        adView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
    }    

});

This will result in exact same behavior as the old Admob SDK.

Answer 2

you have to check programatically there are ad present or no.if ads are not present then just set

adView.setVisibility(View.GONE) 

else

adView.setVisibility(View.Visible)

thats it...