Flutter: firebase_admob vs admob_flutter

Question

https://pub.dev/packages/firebase_admob

https://pub.dev/packages/admob_flutter

What are the differences between these 2 packages?

firebase_admob is the official one while admob_flutter will support native ads soon (apparently). I have tried them both and found no issues but I wanted to know which one is better than the other.

Answer 1

The message that they will support native ads was listed since Dec. 10 2018, the first version.

Also even though it is called firebase_admob and it may seem like it is directly constructed for Flutter if you look at the GitHub repo readme, it shows that it is part FlutterFire.

[firebase-admob] tag exists while [admob-flutter] on Stack Overflow which makes it seem like it would be harder to get help when using since both of the packages don't have a proper API doc

It seems like firebase_admob would be better than admob_flutter as it seems to have a bit more features and can be more trusted to be maintained and up to date.

Update Edit: Now google_mobile_ads has been released with native ads for flutter.