Another Reason for Admob Ad's to not load and the Virtues of the Logcat

The Admob library for Android can be a bit of a pain to get it to work sometimes. Today I learned a valuable lesson: Don't put padding on the Layout where the ad will go OR THE AD WON'T SHOW UP. Unless you know how to use the logcat for android, this will be a very hard problem to solve.

Since were on the topic of logcat  here's a helpful hint if you're using Eclipse. Instead of opening up a cmd (command) line to look at the logcat and typing in "adb devices" then "abd shell" then "logcat"just go to Eclipse

Window>Show View>Other> then look under the Android Tab and double click on the Logcat View And viola!