title: AdMob Implementation
body: <p>I am trying to implement AdMob into my Android app and I have 2 questions that I hope are straight forward. According to the quick start guide at: <a href="https://developers.google.com/admob/android/quick-start" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://developers.google.com/admob/android/quick-start</a></p>
  
  <p>1) I need to implement implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:17.1.0' - however if I am using google play services in my app, i.e. implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:12.0.1' is this still required?</p>
  
  <p>2) Once again in the guide it says to add the following to the Android manifest.xml:</p>
  
  <pre><code>android:name="com.google.android.gms.ads.APPLICATION_ID"
  android:value="[ADMOB_APP_ID]"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Probably a stupid question, but the APPLICATION_ID is the same in both cases correct? And in the value= do you actually leave the brackets? i.e:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta-data
      android:name="com.google.android.gms.ads.ca-app- pub-XXXXXXXXXX~XXXXXXXXXX"
      android:value="com.google.android.gms.ads.ca-app- pub-XXXXXXXXXX~XXXXXXXXXX"/&gt;
  /&gt;
  </code></pre>