Ima SDK Basics

google/ima-sdk-basics

>- Use this skill for Interactive Media Ads (IMA) SDK client-side ad insertion when you are requesting video ads client-side into websites, apps, TVs or other platforms with VAST or VMAP. Do not use for Dynamic Ad Insertion (DAI), SSAI, or SGAI (use the `ima-sdk-dai-basics` skill instead).

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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/google/skills --skill ima-sdk-basics

What comes with it

32 349 bytes besides the instruction

references/ima-sdk-android-guide.md

references/ima-sdk-ios-guide.md

references/ima-sdk-tvos-guide.md

references/ima-sdk-web-guide.md

references/ima-sdk-web-iframe-mode.md

references/ima-sdk-web-mobile-safari.md

The instruction itself

3 sections, as written by the author

IMA SDK basics

The Google IMA SDK (Interactive Media Ads) lets you load in-stream video and

audio ads into websites, apps, TVs and other digital platforms. Use an IMA SDK

to request ads from any VAST-compliant ad server and manage ad playback.

Prerequisites

Before integrating the IMA SDK, you must read the platform-specific guide

below to support all platforms that your app can support:

Web/HTML5/ReactJs/NodeJs/Angular: Read all these guides

ima-sdk-web-guide.md,

ima-sdk-web-iframe-mode.md,

ima-sdk-web-mobile-safari.md

Android/AndroidTV/ReactNative: Read ima-sdk-android-guide.md
iOS/tvOS/ReactNative: Read all these guides

ima-sdk-ios-guide.md,

ima-sdk-tvos-guide.md

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Quick start (general workflow)

Import the SDK: Prerequisites, dependencies.
Initialization: Early setup, Warmup, Settings Configuration, and Ad UI

Setup.

Ad Request: Creating and triggering the request, User gesture compliance.
Ad Load Success/Failure: Handling the load event to get the AdsManager, or

handling early fatal errors.

Ad Playback Events: Listening to playback events via AdsManager to

coordinate content play/pause, and handling non-fatal LOG events and fatal

active playback errors.

Cleanup: Properly destroying the AdsManager to release resources and prevent

memory leaks.

For detailed, platform-specific implementation details, always refer to the

guides in the Prerequisites section.

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take google/ima-sdk-basics from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.