Real-time ad testing, no code required
Ad inspector is a feature included with the Google Mobile Ads SDK (version 20.0.0 or later for Android , 7.68.0 or later for iOS ). It provides useful serving insights and third-party ad source testing in real time. No coding required.
With a simple gesture, such as a shake or flick of your test device , ad inspector is displayed on top of your apps as an overlay. Using ad inspector, you can:
- Inspect your ad units
- Check whether your ads are filling as expected
- Identify errors and view details about how to resolve
- View the mediation waterfall details per request
- Check the status of your third-party ad source SDK adapter
- Test individual third-party waterfall ad sources
- Verify that you’ve correctly configured the ad source for mediation
- Check how each of your ad sources are performing per ad unit
- Test custom event integrations
Get started
To use ad inspector, you must:
- Install and initialize the latest Google Mobile Ads SDK (version 20.0.0 or later for Android
, 7.68.0 or later for iOS
). To view bidding details in ad inspector, you must install version 20.2.0+ for Android and version 8.5.0+ for iOS.
- Set up a test device and select the gesture you’d like to use to invoke ad inspector on your device. Learn how to add a test device .
- On your test device, open your app and begin interacting with the app. This ensures that there are enough ad requests for you to analyze. Note that you may see a set of ad requests even on app start if you've implemented ad caching on your app.
- After interacting with your app on your test device, invoke ad inspector by using the gesture you selected in Step 2.
