Test creative types

Page Summary

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• The Google Mobile Ads SDK allows you to specify a creative type for test ad queries using the ft_ctype parameter.

• The ft_ctype parameter is included in an extras object and passed to the ad request to restrict the retrieved creatives to a specific type.

• The ft_ctype parameter is only effective when your device is in Test Mode.

• Specifying a creative type may limit ad availability and could result in no ads being returned.

• This feature only impacts Google ads; third-party mediated ads will not respect the ft_ctype parameter.

Select platform: Android (beta) Android iOS

Google Mobile Ads SDK provides an API that lets you specify a creative type for test queries. When the parameter is set, only creatives of the specified type are retrieved and rendered.

Usage

To specify a creative type, include the ft_ctype parameter in an extras object and pass it to the ad request. This may restrict which ads are available and result in no fill.

  let 
  
 extras 
  
 = 
  
 Extras 
 () 
 extras 
 . 
 additionalParameters 
  
 = 
  
 [ 
 "ft_ctype" 
 : 
  
 "video_app_install" 
 ] 
 let 
  
 request 
  
 = 
  
 Request 
 () 
 request 
 . 
 register 
 ( 
 extras 
 ) 
 

  GADExtras 
  
 * 
 extras 
  
 = 
  
 [[ 
 GADExtras 
  
 alloc 
 ] 
  
 init 
 ]; 
 extras 
 . 
 additionalParameters 
  
 = 
  
 @{ 
 @"ft_ctype" 
  
 : 
  
 @"video_app_install" 
 } 
 ; 
 GADRequest 
  
 * 
 request 
  
 = 
  
 [ 
 GADRequest 
  
 request 
 ]; 
 [ 
 request 
  
 registerAdNetworkExtras 
 : 
 extras 
 ]; 
 

The following table lists the valid values for ft_ctype :

This feature impacts Google ads only. If your ad unit enables mediation , ads returned from third-party ad sources don't respect the ft_ctype parameter. We recommend testing with an ad unit that doesn't have mediation enabled.