Native Video Ads isn't paused when the tab isn't active (switched to another tab) on Android

[ultraon]

[REQUIRED] Step 1: Describe your environment

Doctor summary (to see all details, run flutter doctor -v):
[✓] Flutter (Channel stable, 3.19.3, on macOS 13.6.2 22G320 darwin-arm64, locale en-UA)
[✓] Android toolchain - develop for Android devices (Android SDK version 34.0.0)
[✓] Xcode - develop for iOS and macOS (Xcode 15.2)
[✓] Chrome - develop for the web
[✓] Android Studio (version 2023.2)
[✓] IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition (version 2023.3.4)
[✓] VS Code (version 1.85.1)
[✓] Connected device (5 available)

Plugin Version

v4.0.0

[REQUIRED] Step 2: Describe the problem

Steps to Reproduce

The problem is simple. And it is 100% reproducible on Android (iOS works well).

Steps to reproduce:

• Add BottomNavigationBar with a few tabs
• Integrate Native Template Ads on the 1st tab
• use the test ad_unit_id: /6499/example/native-video and load the ads, video Ads should be played
• unmute sound (if it is muted) on the Ads Video frame
• switch to another tab

Expected: The video Ads playback should be paused, the sound shouldn't be playing.
Actual: The video Ads playback continues playing, and the sound is playing.

On iOS it works properly.

[malandr2]

Hi @ultraon, can you provide a minimum reproducible sample for further debugging. Thanks!

[ultraon]

Hi @ultraon, can you provide a minimum reproducible sample for further debugging. Thanks!

Hello @malandr2 , I've created a minimum reproducible sample.
This is the repo: https://github.com/ultraon/sample_android_ads_issue
In the repo description (README.md) I added details and how to reproduce.
On iOS it works as expected.
On Android it doesn't.

[malandr2]

Hey @ultraon, I'm able to reproduce this, thanks for creating the sample. I think this is a Flutter issue, even though it only happens on Android. I've escalated this to the Flutter team to confirm it's a google_mobile_ads plugin issue.

[ultraon]

Thank you!