New Admob for Android: Switching from Admob SDK to Google Play Services API
Google announced on the 11th of February 2014 that they were deprecating the standalone Admob Android SDK. They will stop accepting apps using the old SDK on the 1st of August 2014. Ads will keep serving, but eventually you will have to switch over. Also, legacy AdMob will be shutting down on 31st of August 2014, you have to upgrade to new AdMob following this guide . I updated and found out that there are some points that you should notice. Know your new AdMob Ad Unit ID Apps you previously monetized in legacy AdMob used legacy Publisher IDs (which represented a string of 15 hexadecimal characters starting with the letter “a”, such as a143534390190de ) to identify the ad units and legacy Mediation IDs (which represented a string of 16 character hexadecimal characters such as e124250129089251 ) for mediation. New AdMob uses ad unit IDs to identify unique ad units in your apps, serve ads to those ad units, and manage AdMob Mediation if it's enabled. Ad unit ID has a ...