title: Failed to find provider info for com.google.plus.platform
body: <p>I have tried to use Admob in my application and i have tried the following. could you please tell me why i'm getting this error?</p>
  
  <p><strong>activity.main.xml</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
                xmlns:ads="http://schemas.android.com/apk/lib/com.google.ads"
                android:orientation="vertical"
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="fill_parent"&gt;
      &lt;TextView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="@string/hello"/&gt;
      &lt;com.google.ads.AdView android:id="@+id/ad"
                             android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                             android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                             ads:adSize="BANNER"
                             ads:adUnitId="/6253334/dfp_example_ad"
                             ads:testDevices="TEST_EMULATOR,DB5C6285034D8192153E5D66D726E418"
                             ads:loadAdOnCreate="true"/&gt;
  &lt;/LinearLayout&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>MainActivity.java</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>package test.admobtest;
  
  import com.google.ads.AdRequest;
  import com.google.ads.AdView;
  
  import android.os.Bundle;
  import android.os.Looper;
  import android.app.Activity;
  
  public class MainActivity extends Activity {
  
      @Override
      protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
          super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
          setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
  
          final AdView adView = (AdView)this.findViewById(R.id.ad);
          new Thread(){
              public void run() {
                  Looper.prepare();
                  AdRequest re = new AdRequest();
                  re.setTesting(true);
                  adView.loadAd(re);
              };
          }.start();      
  
      }
  
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>AndroidManifest.xml:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?&gt;
  &lt;manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
      package="test.admobtest"
      android:versionCode="1"
      android:versionName="1.0" &gt;
  
      &lt;uses-sdk
          android:minSdkVersion="8"
          android:targetSdkVersion="17" /&gt;
        &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE"/&gt;
      &lt;uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/&gt;
  
      &lt;application
          android:allowBackup="true"
          android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
          android:label="@string/app_name"
          android:theme="@style/AppTheme" &gt;
          &lt;activity
              android:name="test.admobtest.MainActivity"
              android:label="@string/app_name" &gt;
              &lt;intent-filter&gt;
                  &lt;action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /&gt;
  
                  &lt;category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /&gt;
              &lt;/intent-filter&gt;
          &lt;/activity&gt;
          &lt;activity android:name="com.google.ads.AdActivity"
                    android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenLayout|uiMode|screenSize|smallestScreenSize"/&gt;
      &lt;/application&gt;
  
  &lt;/manifest&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>log:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>07-08 10:34:34.589: I/webclipboard(26978): clipservice: android.sec.clipboard.ClipboardExManager@4052f5d0
  07-08 10:34:34.849: I/webclipboard(26978): clipservice: android.sec.clipboard.ClipboardExManager@4052f5d0
  07-08 10:34:34.909: E/ActivityThread(26978): Failed to find provider info for com.google.plus.platform
  07-08 10:34:34.929: W/Ads(26978): loadAd called while the ad is already loading, so aborting.
  07-08 10:34:34.979: I/Ads(26978): adRequestUrlHtml: &lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;script src="http://media.admob.com/sdk-core-v40.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;script&gt;AFMA_getSdkConstants();AFMA_buildAdURL({"preqs":1,"session_id":"10000751322559007096","seq_num":"2","slotname":"\/6253334\/dfp_example_ad","u_w":320,"msid":"test.admobtest","adtest":"on","js":"afma-sdk-a-v6.4.1","bas_off":0,"net":"wi","app_name":"1.android.test.admobtest","hl":"en","gnt":3,"carrier":"40440","u_audio":3,"kw":[],"u_sd":1,"ms":"n54ldDZ15bdyTg9xXgxtdXMgomxIrXGdOYvqk2l8bUwTFSRmnmpAVljV0IHyknLTNWRCdF8oj52F_2JERnz-3C-DJsIQ9wGFBnH88tqEb9BjAtNZ3-ni5am3uWBAyUygwgpiyTTzY6cgUeA4g_QnU5Qrh3savu2bMY_3nsjuW9fH7W7x-5HC_oDuaVe6U05Pypm5FMyWGYFqBd0-s6_p_IFm0AhPOYvujrNtCxqC4inyELVT2E0laAKwjvaWVqA5yzjILYNspqByel6t3TMiiZ3z3k7Qc9HYIRsHwRV3cbdtSb_pk5eZCgjTZhaippVWsXwUC-eoMxMdBtfqUHqA9w","mv":"80210006.com.android.vending","isu":"DB5C6285034D8192153E5D66D726E418","format":"320x50_mb","oar":0,"ad_pos":{"height":0,"visible":0,"y":0,"x":0,"width":0},"u_h":480,"pt":1,"bas_on":0,"ptime":20956});&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;
  07-08 10:34:34.999: W/webcore(26978): Can't get the viewWidth after the first layout
  </code></pre>