Unity Google AdMob Banner

Hello!

I've been following Google's Unity AdMob guide at this website: https://developers.google.com/admob/unity/start

I've been trying to implement a banner ad type to an Android game. I imported the provided package and also used the Play Service Android Resolver in order to include the Mobile Android SDK.

The problem is that all the Ads work properly except the banner. In the position where the banner is supposed to be the UI elements like buttons do not work, they are blocked by something on top of them, so it seems like the banner is there, however not visible. I have tested this on 2 different Android devices and the result was the same.

Here is the code that I am using:

 using System.Collections;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using UnityEngine;
 using GoogleMobileAds.Api;
 using GoogleMobileAds;
 
 public class adMobBannerScript : MonoBehaviour {
 
     private BannerView bannerView;
 
     public void Start () {
         #if UNITY_ANDROID
         string appId = "Hidden";
         #elif UNITY_IPHONE
         string appId = "Hidden";
         #else
         string appId = "unexpected_platform";
         #endif
         MobileAds.Initialize (appId);
         this.RequestBanner ();
 
     }
 
      private void RequestBanner()
     {
         #if UNITY_ANDROID
         string adUnitId = "ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/6300978111";
         #elif UNITY_IPHONE
         string adUnitId = "ca-app-pub-3940256099942544/2934735716";
         #else
         string adUnitId = "unexpected_platform";
         #endif
 
         if (bannerView != null)
         {
             bannerView.Destroy();
         }
         bannerView = new BannerView(adUnitId, AdSize.SmartBanner, AdPosition.Top);
 
         // Create an empty ad request.
         AdRequest request = new AdRequest.Builder ().Build ();
 
         // Load the banner with the request.
         bannerView.LoadAd (request);
     }
 
     public void destroyBanner()
     {
         bannerView.Destroy ();
     }
 }

And here is the unity log when I run the code: Thank you very much for your time!