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Ad working in expo client but in android standalone app: ERROR_CODE_NO_FILL

See original GitHub issue

🐛 Bug Report

Environment

expo diagnostics:

  Expo CLI 3.0.10 environment info:
    System:
      OS: macOS 10.14.6
      Shell: 3.0.2 - /usr/local/bin/fish
    Binaries:
      Node: 10.16.0 - /usr/local/bin/node
      Yarn: 1.17.3 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
      npm: 6.10.3 - /usr/local/bin/npm
    IDEs:
      Android Studio: 3.4 AI-183.6156.11.34.5692245
      Xcode: 10.3/10G8 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
    npmPackages:
      expo: ^34.0.1 => 34.0.4 
      react: 16.8.3 => 16.8.3 
      react-native: https://github.com/expo/react-native/archive/sdk-34.0.0.tar.gz => 0.59.8 
      react-navigation: ^3.0.9 => 3.11.1

App’s target: Android (standalone, apk)

Steps to Reproduce

I’m using managed workflow.

import { AdMobBanner } from 'expo-ads-admob';

// And then used somewhere in the render method
<AdMobBanner
  bannerSize="banner"
  adUnitID={
    Platform.OS === 'ios'
      ? settings.IOSAdUnitID
      : settings.AndroidAdUnitID
  }
  testDeviceID="EMULATOR"
  onDidFailToReceiveAdWithError={handleError}
/>

Expected Behavior

Running app through Expo app

IOS: banner shows properly Android: banner shows properly

Running app through standalone versions

IOS: banner shows properly Android: banner should show properly

Actual Behavior

Running app through Expo app

IOS: banner shows properly Android: banner shows properly

Running app through standalone versions

IOS: banner shows properly Android: banner does not show. onDidFailToReceiveAdWithError will be triggered, and based on my logs, it’s receiving ERROR_CODE_NO_FILL. And sometimes I would also log some more detailed error.

Admob failed: Error Domain=com.google.ads Code=1 “Request Error: No ad to show.”

Reproducible Demo

import React from 'react';
import { View, Platform } from 'react-native';
import { shape } from 'prop-types';
import { AdMobBanner } from 'expo-ads-admob';

import settings from '../../constants/AdmobSettings';

import styles from './Ads.style';

function Ads({ style }) {
  function handleError(error) {
    // some remote logging thingy here
  }

  return (
    <View style={[styles.container, style]}>
      <AdMobBanner
        bannerSize="banner"
        adUnitID={
          Platform.OS === 'ios'
            ? settings.IOSAdUnitID
            : settings.AndroidAdUnitID
        }
        testDeviceID="EMULATOR"
        onDidFailToReceiveAdWithError={handleError}
      />
    </View>
  );
}

Ads.propTypes = {
  style: shape({}),
};

export default Ads;

NOTE: I’m aware that #4684 is somewhat similar, but this one is using AdMobBanner and the error code is somewhat different.