AdMob issue with Eclipse

Question

I am trying to get AdMob to work on my app with Eclipse. For that I already implemented following steps:

Signed up on AdMob and created an ad

Inserted following to Manifest.xml:

<!-- This meta-data tag is required to use Google Play Services. -->
<meta-data
    android:name="com.google.android.gms.version"
    android:value="@integer/google_play_services_version" />

<activity
    android:name="com.google.android.gms.ads.AdActivity"
    android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenLayout|uiMode|screenSize|smallestScreenSize"android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Translucent" />

Installed and imported google-play-services_lib (checked copy files into workspace)
Added google-play-services_lib as library to project

In my layout xml I have this:

<com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView
    android:id="@+id/adView"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    ads:adSize="BANNER"
    ads:adUnitId="ca-app-pub-2756687115022088/XXXXXXXXXX" >
</com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView>

Also I included xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"

6.Added following to my Activity:

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import com.example.adexample.R;
import com.google.android.gms.ads.AdRequest;
import com.google.android.gms.ads.AdView;


public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        AdView adView = (AdView)this.findViewById(R.id.adView);
        AdRequest adRequest = new AdRequest.Builder().build();
        adView.loadAd(adRequest);

    }
}

7.Now when I try to run the app on my device I always get following error:

unable to execute dex gc overhead limit exceeded

What I tried, but no success: increase memory size in eclipse.ini and sometimes Eclipse doesn't start and I have to do following step: https://stackoverflow.com/a/18282716/3829021

Are you sure that this error comes from the admob integration? — Michael, Nov 12 '14 at 09:39
I think due to google-play-service_lib... When I try to launch projects without google play service lib then there are no problems. I have no clue why google play services causes this gc overhead. — Sini Inis, Nov 12 '14 at 14:13
Are you testing it on emulator? Also you should enable test-ads for emulator by adding `.addTestDevice(AdRequest.DEVICE_ID_EMULATOR)` to your AdRequest. — donfuxx, Nov 12 '14 at 18:28

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 12 '14 at 18:28

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I could solve this issue just by re-installing Eclipse and Android SDK and imported google play service lib into project and it worked.

answered Nov 12 '14 at 18:28

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

I ran into this just now trying to integrate admob. This is a generic eclipse memory issue and not specific to AdMob integration.

Here's the fix that worked for me:

Edited eclipse.ini in the eclipse installation folder (In my case: C:\Program Files\eclipse\eclipse.ini)
Increased the memory values in the lines starting with Xms*

from
```
-Xms40m 
-Xmx512m
```
to
```
-Xms512m
-Xmx1024m
```

Credit: Unable to execute dex: GC overhead limit exceeded in Eclipse

AdMob issue with Eclipse

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