Add AdMobile patches: ads, pro unlock, and sign-in on re-signed builds - #55
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AdMobile (io.stark.admob) 2.4.8 monetises exclusively with AdMob native ads across four placements (home, apps, app info, mediation). All of them share one pipeline: the base fragment requests an ad through AdLoader.Builder(context, getString(R.string.ad_*_native)) and the loaded ad is bound by AdNativeView.setNativeAd(NativeAd), which is what makes the otherwise GONE view visible. Cut the pipeline at both ends, anchoring each patch on a name R8 cannot rename so they survive app updates: - Hide Ads returns early from AdNativeView.setNativeAd after releasing the ad. The class name is kept by the layout XML reference and setNativeAd by the default ProGuard rule for set* members of View subclasses. The method reserves 19 locals, so the parameter registers sit above v15 and the release goes through invoke-virtual/range. - Disable Ad Requests blanks the ad unit id string resources. Ad unit ids are only null-checked for the context, so an empty id makes the request fail rather than return an ad, and resource names are never obfuscated. Neither patch touches the purchase state, so pro features stay gated exactly as in the stock app.
Pro is a single boolean field on AdMobile's DataStore wrapper, written in exactly one place: the verifyAppPurchase suspend body, which RSA-verifies the purchase json and signature persisted after the last Play purchase against the stored Play public key. Everything else reads it — the billing client mirrors it into a MutableLiveData at startup and after every processed purchase list, and the base fragment fans it out to the report charts (real data instead of the demo series), the ad unit and ad source breakdowns (full list instead of a single teaser row), multi account support, the profile accents and the branch that skips loading an ad. Force both writes to that flag to true: the one after a failed verification and the one taken when no purchase is persisted at all. Overriding the verification result alone would miss the second, which is the path a device that never bought anything takes. The method is located by the log prefix it emits, distinct from the one the billing client uses for a fresh purchase list, and strings survive obfuscation. Also move Constants up to the admobile package now that it is shared between the ads and misc patches.
A re-signed AdMobile cannot use Google Sign-In: Google checks the calling package against the SHA-1 its OAuth Android client was registered with and answers DEVELOPER_ERROR. But Google Sign-In only produces the initial authorization code. Everything after it is plain HTTPS that does not care how the APK is signed: the app posts client_id, client_secret and refresh_token to oauth2.googleapis.com/token itself, then reads reports from admob.googleapis.com. Supplying those three values removes the GMS step entirely, so no root, mount install or microG is needed. The client secret is deliberately absent from the APK — the app downloads it from the developer's Firestore after a successful Firebase sign-in, along with the Play public key. Injecting only a refresh token therefore cannot work, so the patches take a full OAuth client of the user's own. Five edits, four of them anchored on names R8 cannot rename: - the DataStore read, the single decrypting lookup every secret passes through, answers the client secret, publisher id and any token_refresh_<id> key. It is a suspend function, so returning a value rather than COROUTINE_SUSPENDED is its ordinary non-suspending path. - the pre-DataStore SharedPreferences read answers the refresh token too, since the OkHttp authenticators still look there first. - checkUser() sends the app to the login screen when the user DAO returns no selected account, so that query hands back a fabricated one. The DAO carries no strings and is located through the call checkUser() makes just before logging the result. - the account is built by a factory added to the entity, which needs ten registers, more than the DAO method reserves. - client_id comes from a string resource, so it is a resource patch. tools/apply-admobile-credentials.py performs the same edits on an apktool-decoded APK for use without the Morphe toolchain. The smali assembles and the resulting APK builds; the flow has not been exercised against a live account.
Replace the build-time options with a form the patch adds as a second launcher entry. The values live in the app's private preferences, so nothing is compiled into the APK: a patched build carries no secret and one build works for anybody. Every hook falls through while the form is empty, so an unconfigured build behaves exactly as it did before patching. The form is built in code rather than from a layout, so the patch adds no resources and has no ids to keep in step with the host app. It is reached through its own launcher entry, which leaves the app's navigation graph untouched. Hooks, all anchored on names R8 cannot rename: - Application.onCreate hands the extension a context before anything reads a credential; its class is named in the manifest so R8 keeps it. - the DataStore read, the single decrypting lookup every secret passes through, is answered for the client secret, the publisher id and any token_refresh_<id> key. - the pre-DataStore SharedPreferences read is answered for the refresh token, which the OkHttp authenticators try first. - the client id is substituted on the app store constructor argument, since it is read once there and travels to both token requests as a field. The constructor reserves no locals, so the parameter register is reused in place. - the user DAO hands back a fabricated account once credentials exist, which is what stops checkUser() from routing to the login screen. The extension compiles against the Android API, the edits assemble, and the built APK carries the extension classes. The OAuth flow has not been exercised against a live account. tools/apply-admobile-screen.py performs the same edits without the Morphe toolchain; the earlier fixed-value script stays for personal builds.
Drop the launcher entry. While nothing is stored the launch screen's own sign in button opens the form instead of the Google flow, so setup is one tap from the screen a fresh install already lands on and the app's navigation graph is untouched. Saving restarts the app, which is all the account needs to be picked up. Once credentials exist the account is served locally and the button is never reached again. Both the sign-in client and its click handler are obfuscated, but the launch fragment is named in the navigation graph, so the fingerprint is the one method mentioning it that builds an Intent without arguments. The form now separates required from optional fields, explains what the credentials are for, and names what is still missing instead of refusing silently. The activity is declared but not exported, since nothing outside the app starts it. Also add the empty extension manifest the Android plugin requires, which was the last thing keeping the module from building.
apktool interleaves .line directives and blank lines between a call and its move-result, so the pattern anchored on adjacent lines never matched. Check every anchor before writing anything as well. The previous run failed halfway through, after four edits had already been written, and re-running then applied them a second time and produced duplicate labels that only a fresh decode could clear.
Drop the separate launcher entry. While nothing is stored, the launch screen's own sign in button opens the form instead of the Google flow, so setup is one tap from the screen a fresh install already lands on and the app's navigation graph stays untouched. Saving restarts the app, which is all it takes for the fabricated account to be picked up. Both the sign-in client and the click handler are obfuscated, but the launch fragment is named in the navigation graph, so the single no-argument call returning an Intent inside a method mentioning it is the one to redirect. The activity is now declared unexported, since it is only ever reached from inside the app. The form gained required and optional sections, per-field hints, and a save that names what is still missing rather than refusing silently. Add tools/get-admobile-token.py, which runs the consent flow against a loopback redirect and prints every value the form asks for. It reads the publisher id back from the AdMob API, so that one no longer has to be looked up in the AdMob console. Also add the empty extension manifest the Android plugin requires, which was what stopped the extension module from building. Verified with the real toolchain: ./gradlew build is green across 98 tasks, producing patches-2.3.0.mpp and extensions/admobile.mpe.
Signing in becomes one tap with nothing to paste: the browser opens on the consent screen, and the refresh token, publisher id, currency and time zone all come back from Google. The manual fields stay, folded away, for builds without a bundled client or a token obtained elsewhere. PKCE with a loopback redirect, served by a short-lived ServerSocket in the app. Loopback rather than a custom scheme keeps the redirect out of the manifest, so the patch does not need the client id at build time to declare an intent filter for it. The OAuth client is of type Desktop, the only kind bound to neither package name nor signing certificate, which is what lets a single build be handed to anybody. The client is set through the clientId and clientSecret patch options, written into two extension getters with returnEarly. Set them once and users of that build enter nothing at all; leave them empty and the app asks for a client instead. Note that while the consent screen is in Testing, Google caps it at 100 accounts and expires refresh tokens after seven days, so the app will ask to sign in again weekly until the project is verified. Also ignore .kotlin/, which the compiler writes into the working tree. Verified with ./gradlew build: green, producing patches-2.3.0.mpp and extensions/admobile.mpe.
The patch now puts AppTheme on the activity, the app's own Theme.Material3.DayNight.NoActionBar. Colours are resolved from the theme's Material colour roles at runtime, looked up by attribute name because the extension compiles on its own and has no R class for them. The form follows the app in light and dark and picks up the dynamic palette on Android 12 and above, without shipping a colour of its own. Controls are drawn as Material 3 filled fields and buttons rather than platform ones. Two failures the first device run exposed: - The result of a sign in could be lost. The browser holds the foreground while the flow runs, so the system is free to tear the form down behind it and a toast on a dead activity goes nowhere. The outcome is now recorded before the callback and read back in onResume, and the app is pulled to the front as soon as the redirect lands, so the user does not have to find their way back by hand. - The title sat under the status bar, which the activity draws beneath since the app's theme is edge to edge. It now carries that inset. Also make failures diagnosable rather than generic: the token endpoint's own error_description is surfaced, the redirect line is logged, and query parameters are matched key by key instead of by searching for the name, so a parameter merely ending in the one being looked for cannot be mistaken for it.
A device run failed with "Unable to resolve host oauth2.googleapis.com". The consent had succeeded and the redirect had been captured, so the only thing left was the exchange — which ran while the browser still held the screen and the app sat in the background. Several vendor builds cut background apps off the network, and that surfaces as the token endpoint failing to resolve rather than as anything OAuth shaped. Split the flow in two. Capturing the redirect stays on the background thread, but the code is now persisted and the exchange waits for the form to resume, which is also when the app is pulled back to the front. Network calls retry a few times as well, since connectivity can lag a moment behind returning to the foreground. The pending code is kept if the exchange fails: Google leaves it usable for a few minutes, so simply coming back to the screen with a working connection is enough to finish, without going through the consent again.
A device run signed in and reached the dashboard, but every report came back empty. The log named the reason: "fetchApps: ... isTokensMissing:true". That flag is the app store's own check, and it reads two names out of the pre-DataStore storage: user_token_access and user_token_refresh. Only the second was being answered, so the first came back blank and the app treated the session as absent — it never issued a request at all, whatever else was in place. The access token from the exchange is now kept and served under both the legacy name and the token_access_<id> DataStore key. An access token lasts an hour, after which the app refreshes it for itself and persists the new one, so both writers are mirrored as well: whatever the app stores becomes the newer truth. Without that the reads would keep answering with an expired token and every request would fail an hour in.
Iterating on this has meant shipping a build and waiting to hear what it did, because an empty dashboard says nothing about its cause: the app stops at the first missing piece and logs almost nothing on the way. Two instruments replace the guessing. In the app, a connection check reports what the hooks actually hold — client, refresh token, access token, publisher id — then refreshes the token and lists the account's apps, showing what Google answered. That separates a credential problem from a plumbing one from inside the phone, where the failure happens. Alongside it, tools/check-admobile-api.py replays the same chain from a desktop against a file of credentials: refresh, list accounts, list apps, generate a network report. Every step printing 200 means the credentials are sound and any remaining emptiness belongs to the app. Note for the record that a hardware accelerated Android emulator is not possible in this environment: there is no /dev/kvm and the CPU exposes no virtualisation flags, so the device stays the only place the patched app can actually run.
The form asked for seven values at once, four of which the sign in fills in by itself. It now reads as the two steps it really is: name the Google API client, then connect an account with it. The client id and secret are properties of the build rather than of whoever is signed in, so they survive disconnecting and come back prefilled. Disconnecting was impossible. The app's own sign out forgets an account held in its database, but the account it is shown comes from the extension, so it reappeared immediately. There is now a disconnect that clears the session and keeps the client. Reaching the form once signed in was impossible too, since the launch screen is skipped. Every call site building the sign-in intent is redirected rather than just the launch screen's: the add account action builds the same one, which makes it the way back in. The call sites are found from the reference resolved at the launch screen, so a new one would be covered without further work.
Step 1 asked for a client id and a secret without saying where either is found, which is the one part of the setup that cannot be automated away. It now folds out five numbered steps, from creating the project to copying the two values, and a button that opens the Google Cloud credentials page. The numbering is a badge per row rather than text, so the sequence stays readable on a narrow screen, and it is collapsed by default so it does not crowd the form for anyone who has already been through it. The steps also say to leave the consent screen in Testing, and name what that costs: Google expires the connection every seven days. That is the sort of thing better learned before the setup than a week after it.
Signing out did nothing. The app forgets the account held in its database, but the patched app's account is served from the extension instead, so the next check handed it straight back. AccountManager.signOut now clears the extension's session too — it is found by the log line it emits, a string R8 leaves alone. Restarting after a disconnect now ends the process as well. Clearing the task was not enough: the account, the pro flag and the view models all live in memory, so the old session was carried into the new screen. Android brings the launch activity back in a fresh process, which is what makes the restart real. Also fix the standalone script's preflight check, which mapped anchor names to files by exception and so looked for the new one in the wrong file. The mapping is a table now, which is what it should have been from the start.
…or it The dashboard stayed empty even with every credential in place. A device log shows the startup check passing — isTokensMissing false, checkUser returning the account — and then nothing at all: no request, no error. Answering the query for the selected account got past that check, but it was the only query answered. The rest of the app reads the same users table through other queries, the account list the home screen observes among them, and those still saw an empty table, so no report was ever asked for. The account is now inserted into the app's own Room database instead, which makes every query see it. It is written from Application.onCreate before Room opens the file, and again as soon as a sign in completes; signing out deletes it. The query hook stays as well, since it covers the window before the first seed lands. The schema is the one the app's own DAO declares, columns and order included.
Every amount was printed as "null 0.08", on the cards and on the chart axis alike. The formatter is handed a symbol once, on startup, from a setting the app writes when an account is selected through its own sign in. The patched app never takes that path, so the setting stayed absent — and the formatter appends a space to whatever it is given, which turned the missing value into the word null. The symbol is now derived from the account's currency, which the extension already knows, and only when nothing was stored. The profile screen also says nothing about pro. The app's own indicator is a premium coloured ring around the avatar, which reads as decoration; the button that used to sell the subscription is on the same screen, already carries the premium icon, and is the one thing there whose label states a state. It now reads "Premium active". The label is set in the layout rather than at runtime because a patched app is always pro: there is no second state to switch to. Also fix the sign-in redirect, which looked up a mutable method through an API this fork does not have, and so had never compiled.
The setup steps named only the AdMob API, so a project built by following them serves the reports and then fails on the profile screen: the payments card is read from adsense.googleapis.com, and Google answers that the API has never been used in the project. The scope was already requested, so nothing but the console switch was missing. Both the in-app guide and the readme now name it, and say what it is for so that leaving it off is a choice rather than a surprise.
Four review passes over the AdMobile work. The findings that mattered: The app has two stores of the same shape, one for the secrets and one for the settings, and the fingerprints told them apart by counting fields. Which one they matched was iteration order. Both are now identified by the key names they hold, which are string constants R8 leaves alone, and both reads are hooked, which is what the currency symbol needed all along: it lives in the settings store, and answering that read fixes it at the source. The setter fingerprint that stood in for it is gone, and it was the worst of the set, since fingerprint strings match by containment and it asked for "$" and " ". The obfuscated key class and the field holding the key name are read off the matched method's own signature now instead of being written down, and the parameter types that were spelled out as R8 output are matched as "any object". Pro Unlock forced every boolean write after its anchor; it now forces only the writes to the field the first one names. The patches were re-implementing the fork's own helpers: findMutableMethodOf, findInstructionIndicesReversed, indexOfFirstInstructionOrThrow, navigate, and the ResourceUtils DOM helpers. Adding a string through addResource also restores the quote escaping the raw DOM path skipped. Both resource patches are now idempotent, and the premium button is located by id rather than by widget class. Two tools are removed. apply-admobile-credentials.py answered the refresh token but not the access token and never seeded the account, so a build made with it today would show an empty dashboard; get-admobile-token.py existed only to feed it, and told the user to paste values into fields the form no longer has. The remaining script is one table of edits instead of a table, a parallel table and ten wrappers, and it reads and writes each file once, which is what makes its "check everything before writing anything" guarantee true. In the extension: seeding the account no longer opens the database on every launch, only when the row would change; the store hooks match the key name before reading anything back, since they run on every read the app makes; the email column was always empty and is gone; and signInIntentOrOriginal never returned the original, so it is signInIntent() and the call sites stop passing one. Sign out commits once rather than eight times, deletes its own row rather than the table, and the socket, database and server close through one helper.
The script only ever carried the credential edits. The ad and pro edits had no written form at all, which is how a build went out with them missing: rebuilding from a different base silently dropped them, and nothing in the repo said they were meant to be there. All six patches are in it now, so the script and the patches describe the same build, and it is named for what it does rather than for the screen it started as. The docstring also says to decode a universal APK. AdMobile ships as a split set, and the base split alone carries a splits0.xml and none of the density resources, which Android reports as "app not compatible with this device".
The how-it-works prose belonged in the patch sources, where it already is. What is left is the setup, the limits and the two scripts.
A merged APK carrying only lib/armeabi-v7a looks 32-bit only, which a 64-bit-only device refuses. The library is an optional DataStore component and dropping it costs nothing.
The exchange stored the tokens, then read the account back, then dropped the authorisation code. A failure between the two left a spent code in place, so the next attempt replayed it and Google answered invalid_grant, which the form showed as "Token exchange refused: Bad Request" on every retry. The tokens were already good; only the publisher id was missing, and no amount of retrying could add it. The code is now dropped as soon as Google answers, and the account lookup is a step of its own that can be retried on the tokens already held. Reopening the screen finishes the job, with no second trip through the consent screen.
Returning from the browser looped on "Finishing...". The form ran any unfinished sign in work on every resume, and the work it was given included recovering a missing account, whose condition stays true until it succeeds. A success then restarted the app, which resumed the form, which started again. Only a captured authorisation code runs on resume now. That code is consumed by the attempt whatever the attempt concludes, so it cannot repeat. Recovering the account is on the button instead, which relabels itself to say so, and one flow at a time is enforced whichever way it is entered. Adds the tests that would have caught it: 67 cases over the extension's storage, its answers to the app's reads, the seeding guard and this state machine. They run on the JVM against stubs, so no device is involved.
Signing in restarts the app by exiting the process. Preference writes went through apply, which only queues them, and a queued write does not survive exit(0). The publisher id is written moments before that restart, so it was dropped every single time: the tokens survived because they were written earlier, the account did not, and the screen came back offering to finish a connection it could never finish. Retrying reproduced it exactly. Writes are synchronous now. They are a handful of short values written a handful of times, so the cost is not worth measuring against losing them. The tests missed this because the harness treated storage as reliable. It now models the two-stage write and the process death, and a lifecycle suite runs a sign in across the restart it ends with. On the previous code those cases fail, publisher id included.
The app crashed with a NullPointerException reading the key name in the settings store. A body injected at the top of a suspend function runs on every resumption of it, not only on entry, and Kotlin passes null for the value parameters when it resumes. Reading the key there was therefore a crash on the first read that had to wait for the disk. The hooks check the key first and fall through when it is absent, which is what a resumption is. The same was latent in the app store's read and write hooks, for any key the extension does not answer. Adds tools/verify-admobile.py, which asserts this rule and the rest of the patch against a decoded tree, so a build is checked before it reaches a device. On the tree that crashed it reports the exact method.
Verifying a patched APK meant reasoning about it, because the sandbox has no /dev/kvm and the emulator falls back to interpreting the guest. It does run at that speed; what fails is everything Android times out on, and each of those failures reads as a problem with the app rather than with the machine. The skill writes down which ones are which. The image without Play services, because the watchdog kills system_server under the load of the ones with it. The wait after boot_completed, because the package service arrives later and installing into that gap is what corrupts it. The install that must not stream. The certificate that must go in the system store under the old subject hash, for a proxy that terminates TLS. And that pgrep -f matches the command line of the shell running it, which is how an emulator you just killed reports itself alive. Its longest section is about not trusting the screen. A slow emulator renders half-drawn frames and cannot show what reached the disk, whereas the app's own preferences, database and log answer the question and can be quoted back. Three scripts carry the parts worth not re-deriving: boot, install, trust.
…that makes redundant Home screen widgets came back empty. Pro is one boolean field, and the patch forced the write to it inside verifyAppPurchase — a body that only runs once the billing client has processed a purchase list. A widget worker can start the process on its own, with no billing client and no purchase list, so it read the flag before anything had set it and rendered as if nothing had ever been bought. Every read is answered true instead. There is no longer an order of events in which a gate sees false, whichever entry point woke the process, and the patch needs no knowledge of what each gate goes on to do. The read is replaced rather than preceded, so the object it would have dereferenced is left alone. The LiveData the screens observe is seeded as well. It is created empty, so until billing fills it "is the user pro" answers no, which is both the window the ad loader lives in and the reason a cold start showed nothing premium. Hide Ads and Disable Ad Requests go: the ad loader sits behind that same flag, so no ad is requested or drawn, and blanking the ad unit ids was belt on top of braces. Pro Badge goes too. It relabelled the profile button, which was a cosmetic claim rather than the thing itself; with the flag true everywhere the app shows what it shows for someone who actually paid, and that is the right answer. Custom AdMob Credentials becomes Serverless Sign-In, which says what it now does. The app no longer fetches its client secret from the developer's Firestore, so nothing leaves the device but calls to Google's own APIs signed with credentials only the user holds. Not offline, and the readme says so: the reports still live at admob.googleapis.com. The verifier now fails on any surviving read of the flag, and names the file. On the tree that shipped the empty widgets it names lh/b.smali.
The widgets render now that the pro flag is answered everywhere, but they show zero. They fetch their own report, and the header they send is built from the stored access token, which Google issues for one hour. Nothing was keeping that token current outside the app. The app refreshes its own whenever a request comes back unauthorised, so while somebody is using it the stored value stays good; a widget updates on its own schedule, reads whatever was left behind, and sends it expired. The request returns no data, and no data reads on screen as zero earnings. The extension now judges the age of what it holds before handing it out, and trades the refresh token for a new one when it has aged past the hour. Every caller gets a usable token, whichever process it runs in and however long ago the app was last opened. The refresh needs a network call, so a caller on the main thread still gets what is stored and lets the app's own authenticator do the work from its background thread. Obtaining a token now records when, in one place, so the age is knowable at all.
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Description
Adds support for AdMobile (
io.stark.admob) alongside the existing Transit patches.Ads.
Hide Adsreturns early fromAdNativeView.setNativeAdafter releasing the ad, so nothing is ever drawn.Disable Ad Requestsblanks the three ad unit string resources, so no request leaves the device. AdMobile 2.4.8 serves native ads only, in four placements that share one pipeline, so these two cover all of it. Both anchors survive R8: the view class is referenced from layout XML,setNativeAdis kept by the default ProGuard rule forset*onViewsubclasses, and resource names are never obfuscated.Pro. Pro is one boolean field, written only by the
verifyAppPurchasebody, which checks a persisted purchase against the stored Play public key locally.Pro Unlockforces both writes to that field to true, including the branch taken when nothing was ever purchased.Pro Badgecomes with it and relabels the profile screen's premium button, since the app's own indicator is a coloured ring around the avatar that reads as decoration.Sign-in. A re-signed APK cannot complete Google Sign-In: Google validates the calling package against the SHA-1 the OAuth client was registered with and answers
DEVELOPER_ERROR(10). microG does not help, since it reports the app's real certificate to the same endpoint. Injecting a refresh token alone does not work either, because the client secret never ships in the APK; the app downloads it from the developer's Firestore after a successful Firebase sign-in.Custom AdMob Credentialsreplaces the whole flow with the user's own OAuth client. Everything past the authorization code is plain HTTPS that does not care how the APK is signed, so the patch redirects the app's reads of the client id, client secret, publisher id and tokens to an extension, and points the app's own sign-in button at a form that runs the consent flow in the browser with PKCE on a loopback redirect. Values live in the app's private preferences, so a patched build carries no secret and one build works for anybody. Until they are filled in, every hook falls through and the app behaves as it did before patching.The extension also writes the account into the app's own Room database, because answering the one startup query is not enough: the home screen observes the account list through a different query.
Anchoring. The app has two stores of the same shape, one for secrets and one for settings. They are told apart by the key names they hold, which are string constants R8 leaves alone, and both reads are hooked. That is also what supplies the currency symbol, which otherwise stays unset in a patched build and makes every amount render as
null 0.08. The obfuscated key class and the field holding the key name are read off the matched method's signature rather than written down.Additional context
tools/apply-admobile.pyperforms the same edits on an apktool-decoded APK, for when the Morphe toolchain is unavailable. Its anchors are the obfuscated names of AdMobile 2.4.8, so it needs updating for later versions, whereas the patches find theirs through fingerprints.tools/check-admobile-api.pyreplays the API calls from a desktop, to tell a build problem from a Google project problem.Known limits: the patch fabricates the single selected account, so the account switcher stays empty; the Firebase session is never established; and refresh tokens issued by a consent screen still in Testing expire after seven days.
Test results
Tested on AdMobile 2.4.8, the only version currently declared compatible, on a physical device: sign-in through the form, reports and per-app breakdowns rendering real AdMob data, correct currency symbol, sign-out, and no ads. The patched APK must be built from a universal APK; AdMobile ships as a split set and the base split alone installs as "app not compatible with this device".
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