Google Analytics for Android: A crash course

A workshop on why developers need google analytics, how it can be useful to them and how to go about integrating it

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1. Google Analytics for Mobile Soham Mondal Soham Mondal
2. About me Android developer & creator of Sky Recorder Founder, CEO, Triveous Co-organizer at GDG-Blrdroid Tweets at @s0h4m Soham Mondal
3. Agenda What is Google Analytics for mobile? How can it be useful to developers? Basics of Google Analytics A case study – Sky Recorder Include google analytics in your app Soham Mondal
4. WHAT IS GOOGLE ANALYTICS FOR MOBILE? It’s a way to provide anonymous aggregated data for your application Soham Mondal
5. Overall use Understanding your users better Get implicit feedback Create the best user experience Soham Mondal
6. HOW CAN IT BE USEFUL TO DEVELOPERS Soham Mondal
7. Specifics Find out more about users Demographics Users Devices Engagement Events & screens Crashes and Exceptions Soham Mondal
8. Demographics Country/Territory City Network Trends Soham Mondal
9. Users Active users New users Session duration Screen views Trends Soham Mondal
10. Devices Most popular devices Screen resolution Device Device + Country Trends Soham Mondal
11. Engagement Screen views Events Trends Engagement flow App speed Behavior Soham Mondal
12. Crashes and exception Automatic Exception description Trends Soham Mondal
13. INTELLIGENCE EVENTS Soham Mondal
14. REAL TIME Soham Mondal
15. ALERTS AND REPORTS Soham Mondal
16. LETS GET STARTED Get started with the workshop Soham Mondal
17. Getting started: steps Create a google analytics account Go to admin > +new account Select app Fill in the details Click get tracking id!! Soham Mondal
18. Using the sdk Add jar file to your project, add to build path Add a configuration file – res/values/analytics.xml Also add ga_dispatchPeriod to 5 Update your manifest Add permissions Add broadcast receiver Add lines to onStart and onStop Soham Mondal
19. RUN AND CHECK LOGCAT Soham Mondal
20. Tracking trackView trackEvent trackException trackTiming Soham Mondal
21. Track events EasyTracker.getInstance().getTracker().trackEvent( "Navigation", "ButtonPress", "Button1", null); Soham Mondal
22. Track exceptions Uncaught exceptions Catch and track exceptions EasyTracker.getInstance().getTracker().trackExcep tion(String.valueOf(android.os.Process.getThreadP riority(android.os.Process.myTid())), e, true); Soham Mondal
23. Q&A Soham Mondal soham@triveous.com @s0h4m Soham Mondal