Hi,
Has anyone ever worked with monogame on Xmarin.form or Maui?
for IOS and Android projects?
Does anyone have a starter example?
thanks in advance
Iām looking for a way to use ADmob and thought of hijacking the problem this way view render on Xmarin.form or Maui then use ADMobe
If you have any other suggestions, Iām all ears
thanks in advance
You can get the MAUI equivalent of Xamarin.Essentials by adding <UseMauiEssentials>true</UseMauiEssentials> to your csproj. We are using admob in both Android and iOS this way (using Xamarin.GooglePlayServices.Ads.Lite and Xamarin.Google.iOS.MobileAds, respectively).
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Hi,
thank you very much for your answer
How did you do ?
you create a Maui or xamarin project
then how do you integrate the monogame viewer?
and admob?
how do you call monogame in Maui?
Do you have a basic sample?
thanks in advance
You mean if I add <UseMauiEssentials>true</UseMauiEssentials> to my csproj
(monogame)
I can use admob without problem?
if yes
I just have one question mark left how can I call banners in the monogame viewer
thanks in advance
Yes, create a MonoGame Android/iOS project and add <UseMauiEssentials>true</UseMauiEssentials> to the csproj to get the MAUI/NET6 equivalent of Xamarin Essentials (which is needed by the latest versions of Admob libs mentioned).
I didnāt have much luck with it and ended up making my own lib like this to fit our needs, but you can try to make use of something like this (go-between lib so you donāt call the admob apis directly, per platform): GitHub - marcojak/MauiMTAdmob (this is about the closest thing youāre going to find to a ābasic exampleā - which really doesnāt exist for this type of thing since it is so specific to your stack, ad types, app/game flow, etc - and these APIs change so much so often). If youāre using MG 3.8.1 (and therefore .NET6) then your ads stack should start with MauiEssentials and the latest version of the Admob nuget needed for your target platform.
If youāre using an older version of MG then youād instead just use Xamarin.Essentials and the earlier versions of the admob apis that have .NET Core/Standard/Whatever prereqs instead.
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Thank you very much for your answer
I see better
there is just the inlay of the banner
if I understand correctly if I configure things correctly, they appear independently of the monogamous viewer?
itās just this step that intrigues me
thanks again
The Admob API renders the ad using the same Activity instance that MonoGame uses. For example, to load in an interstitial ad youād do something like this: InterstitialAd.Load((AndroidActivity)Game1.Activity, AD_ID, new AdRequest.Builder().Build(), new InterstitialCallbackInherit()); Note the passing of your gameās AndroidActivity instance (a MonoGame template class which inherits from AndroidGameActivity which is a MonoGame class that inherits from Xamarinās Android.App.Activity), which is how Admob gets the āviewerā, as you call it, which it uses to render the ads. Therefore, both your game and the ads use the same Android.App.Activity instance and therefore the same āviewerā/renderer/windowing.
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Hello,
Thank you very much it helps me a lot
I was going to get started and concerning IOS how can we attach viewer level ads?
I donāt know how I can do to thank you and support you?
can I make a participation?
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Thing is, i dont know how big your project is or how far along but consider that Xamarin is being Sunsetted or replaceable for many situations, in a sort of way, because of Silk, for new projects. Maui future is uncertainā¦The recent announcement is not clear on Maui. like many or most, Microsfoft UIs like UWP, and many other, its not been received well ( no linux support) wiill likely be killed. I will mabye try the Maui essentials as as suggested (GitHub - marcojak/MauiMTAdmob) . But if its as bloated as Xamarin, then im not sure if its ideal.
However MG 3.8.1, Xamarin, The samples, GameActivity works fine nowā¦ im running MG 3.81 /xamarin/Net 6, no major problems , but the tool chain is bloated, slow and almost none of all the bloat in Xamarin/Maui is being used as my UI is built on Monogame. Since im shipping soon Iāll stick with in but if you are looking at longer term plans, there should be a way to ditch Xamarin and Maui especially if you simply using it to host an MG view and some ads.
Here is the announcement:
Silk.NET, .NET 6, and the Sunsetting of Xamarin Support - Silk.NET
This simpler and slimmer and newer approach looks like its beign already used for quite some time.
its simplly hosting a window and in your case, the ad. Soā¦ .I hope someone takes a hard look at the new Silk Windowing which hooks directly to the Java sdk without the whole Xamarin slow to build and basically unused UI stuffā¦ I have not tried it myself, but someone should be able to hook in a Monogame view somehow via GL bindings and Netcore6ā¦ then you can hopefully just use the Java and the Monogame without all the Xamarin stuff, I thinkā¦ I hopeā¦ And teh ad hosting via Java/ google APIs directly.
I jsut dont know how to make the rendertarget hook to OpenGLā¦ . I hope someone notices and makes a sample though, MG->Silk Windowing for Android/OSX, va openGL and locked shared Buffer to rendertarget like the old WPF integrationā¦ I donāt know of admob abstraction in Silk, for IOS / Android but in MauiMTAdmob, the source might have it and it might be extractable, or just host it via SWIFT and Java its just an adhost.
Rght now, to build and deploy Xamarin, or a phone or emulator, even a simple game on Androind the simplest things takes minutes so I can go around it someday.
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Hello,
Thank you for your answer, it sheds light on another angle for me, however, it raises questions
I work on a small project that runs on Android / Ios
I propose to create an open source project around it to help the community
I think it will help a lot of people something easily updated and long term
Does qualquin here have the ability to handle this?
I want to launch the project in open source
a project that looks like marcojack but specially designed for Monogame that can be downloaded directly from Nuget
I couldnt find any vault or project Qualquin on nuget or gitubā¦
for now I want to just stay on Xamarin ā¦But since there is no netstandard 2.0 support on mg 3.8.1 but finally got through the transition,
I will try TheKelsams advice first. Im may to have to do this next for ads.
Going off topic of ad hosting, and meta as usual, its TLDR: but ill share it since i typed it and have alot investedā¦
looking deeper at the broad subject, of XAML /mauiā¦based hostsā¦ that we can embedd MG intoā¦and show Adsā¦ on Ios and Android with either one codebase , all c# , or via very simple platfrom-specific host code for the ads or the window hostsā¦in java or swift or whatever.
Im lookat at this just for a day or soā¦ for the sake of future proofing. scoping features to ship or defer, and to see if i can get a faster toolchain, i may not need to. as I said Xamarin might be bloated and slow ,but its alive , mature, and it works fine wiht MG latest/ and Net 6 or Net 7. For Net 7 is just change 6s to 7sā¦ no issues so far for me. But I havent hosted ads yet.
I dont know how much slimmer Maui is than Xamarinā¦ Or if ill ever use the UI features. Or deploy it on desktops
One other I turned up specifically about ad hosting is isā¦
GitHub - dmanning23/AdMobBuddy: Library for viewing AdMob ads into a Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.iOS, and MonoGame apps havent look deeply tho.
Re. what i mentioned earlier about Silk, I have less high hopes for it on deeper look ā¦I dont even know how old or relevant that announcement is that i put earlier. At some point im might try the Silks Android windowing sample, see its dependencies, give it a quick try , look if its possible to embedded a MG view via a locked render target or something , via open GLā¦
There isnt even an iOS sampleā¦and I canāt even build the android one now. Iām merely hosting one window, but behind the senses there might be quite a bit of java / Mono interop.
Also , yet another option is GitHub - AvaloniaUI/Avalonia: A cross-platform UI framework for .NET. Now in Beta are iOS and Android samples. Avalonia and MG interop should be possible via a shared rendertarget, as was used in the WPF interop. I have not tried Avalonia UI nor Avalonia as a replacement for WPF.
I dont know if Maui will be killedā¦ If it will really replace WPF on desktop, with docking windows and all stuff .
It doesnt have a Linux plan at all wrt desktop. For some thats a nonstarter. WPF is 15 years old and very naunced. Avalonia has Linux support is quite active and mature, but heavily nuaced, forked and tons of issues.
You may want that complex Windowing and XAML UI stuff for a custom Level Designer like I had to build with a team like most game studios, but in my usecase, in my actual game i dont use any XAML UI, I just need one MG window host, will need an ad host, (just full page ads ) and I made just simple buttons, touch joystick, pinch zoom, built on monogame from scratch for the mobile version.
. Lots of things to tryā¦ and consider , can be overwhelmingā¦ Definitely must be careful not to build on a doomed platform ā¦ thants why i lose focus , ramble on , and monitor too many vaults. sighhh
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if you can get admob to work with maui windowing
can you share the sample?
i plan to because i probably need itā¦ In next couple monthsā¦
but i might just do android and Im only doing full page simple video ads, not polluting banners or tricky ones 
ā¦ it will try admob before any native way tho.
i hope to get to this this next week just to show i have a monetizaton strategy that even works on people.w no moneyā¦ iright now I can only use VS 2022 preview that updates very weekā¦ and Net 7. Last i tried to build Maui hello world it didnt work at all so, not promising anything. Donāt they have samples?
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thank you for your help
When you say you had no luck with that
did you manage to add mauiessential without errors?
Because I get something like this:
/usr/local/share/dotnet/packs/Microsoft.Android.Sdk.Darwin/32.0.476/tools/Xamarin.Android.Common.targets(3,3):
Error XAGJS7028: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load assembly 'Microsoft.Maui,
Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken='. Perhaps it doesn't exist in the Mono for Android profile?
File name: āMicrosoft.Maui.dllā
thank you
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I find myself between two problems
i feel like the integration maui essential integration the monogame project 3.8.1 doesnāt like it
and when i try to switch back to xamarin using marcojackās lib
I have a hundred errors I donāt know what to do
thanks in advance
No, I donāt have an issue building MG 3.8.1 with Maui Essentials (targeting .NET6 and Android SDK 31). I would say try creating a brand new MG Android project, add the <UseMauiEssentials>true</UseMauiEssentials> directive and see if that builds. If so, you have something project-specific hanging you up. If not, your dev setup/stack/SDKs are messed up.
when downgrading stuff, ms dev caches things in user folders, and i had to go to my user data and clean recent files. i dont remever exactly everything but I found it by searching over my user dataā¦ c:\users\dami for teh most recent files from when everything broke. restroing and erasing the nugets wasnt enougā¦ dump temp files as wellā¦ try againā¦ Imusing vs 2022 previewā¦ its updates every week, really net7 is fine, i need them to finish fixes, anywasy, and my other vs 2022 official relese its in a state where it cant uninstall or repair, because a install didnt get all teh way through.
anywasy aside from this its stable enoughā¦ the caches are so that builds are faster subsequently butā¦ well i guess downgrades ofr similar might leave new stuff around in local cache ā¦ as long as its in your user data it should be save to removeā¦ especially if the file is very new and near the time when you downgraded something and it all brokeā¦ mabye i put that on reddit and it helped someoneā¦dont remember ā¦
def use a fresh clone periodically in case of missing files not put in git, and commit often as well when your code is stableā¦ so that its not your own accidental changesā¦