B4A Library Google Analytics v4 library

Google Analytics V4: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/android/v4/

The instructions were updated to reflect V4 changes. Note that this library will only work with B4A v3.82+.

Setup instructions:
- Download Google Play Services from Android SDK Manager and copy google-play-services.jar to the additional libraries folder.
- Create a Mobile App Analytics account: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1042508

The tracker is configured with an XML file. You should create a file with the following text named analytics.xml and put it under Objects\res\xml (create this folder if needed):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<resources>
<!--Replace placeholder ID with your tracking ID-->
<string name="ga_trackingId">UA-xxxxx-y</string>

<!--Enable Activity tracking-->
<bool name="ga_autoActivityTracking">true</bool>

<!--Enable automatic exception tracking-->
<bool name="ga_reportUncaughtExceptions">true</bool>

</resources>

Make sure to set this file to be read-only. Otherwise the IDE will delete it during compilation.

You should declare a single AnalyticsTracker in Sub Process_Globals of your main module (or other module). The single tracker should be used from all modules.

Sub Process_Globals
   Public tracker As AnalyticsTracker
End Sub

Sub Globals

End Sub

Sub Activity_Create(FirstTime As Boolean)
   If FirstTime Then
     tracker.Initialize
   End If
   tracker.SendScreenView("Main Activity")
End Sub

Other implemented methods: TrackEvent, SendTransaction, SendTiming and SendProduct. Note that you can pass empty strings for optional parameters.

 

[Erel]

Please try the updated library: http://www.b4x.com/forum/additional...3-google-analytics-v2-library.html#post144708

 

[yiankos1]

Erel is there any way to get analytics if admob ad clicked?

 

[Erel]

You can use the PresentScreen event from AdMob library to call TrackEvent.

 

[yiankos1]

Thank you very much Erel! That was the solution.
Because i am new to Analytics, i want to ask you at Analytics suite what do i have to look to see which ad is clicked more?
(At my app, i have two admob ads and i want through analytics to see which ad is more profitable(clicked more) in order the other one delete.)

Thats the code to fire analytics when ad clicked:

Sub Ad_PresentScreen
    'manually send an event
    tracker.TrackEvent("c1", "a1", "l1", 100)
    tracker.Dispatch 'don't wait for the automatic dispatch (useful for the real-time view).
End Sub

 

[yiankos1]

I figured out what i have to check for in order to see which ad is clicked more. You have to look at Google Analytics Suite for EVENTS.

 

[Inman]

Will you be adding new version features like User Timings, Social Interactions, ECommerce etc to the library? Every bit of stat is useful.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/android/v2/usertimings

 

[airblaster]

Does tracker.stop automatically call tracker.dispatch before stopping?

 

[Erel]

The tracker doesn't stop immediately. You do not need to call dispatch before calling stop.

 

[airblaster]

Hi Erel,

I'm currently trying to remove as many permissions from my app as possible, because of negative user feedback.
During this I stumbled over the permission "android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE", which currently is only used by AnalyticsTracker in my project.
What kind of disadvantages would it have to forcefully remove this permission by calling RemovePermission("android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE")?

 

[Erel]

This permission is required for their library: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/android/v2/#manifest

It is not clear what will happen without this permission.

 

[brelto85]

I am no expert on this topic

how the library updates the statistics analytics account?
if the data mobile connectivity is off, throws an exception?

 

[Erel]

It will not throw an exception. The native library maintains an internal buffer. In the worst case some of the statistics will be lost.

 

[korshkov]

Hello!
Please help me... and add Method to this library.
In SDK i see code for add screens events:
myTracker.sendView("Home Screen"); // Where myTracker is an instance of Tracker.

Is that possible?

Thanks!

 

[Erel]

Try this reflection code:

Dim r As Reflector
r.Target = r.RunStaticMethod("com.google.analytics.tracking.android.EasyTracker", "getTracker", Null, Null)
r.RunMethod2("sendView", "<view>", "java.lang.String")

 

[korshkov]

Thanks, Erel!
You BEST!

 

[corwin42]

Just a small tip for this library.

If you want to use it from a background service and not from an activity just call the following sub before calling tracker.TrackEvent()

Public Sub SetAnalyticsContext
    Dim r As Reflector
   
    r.Target = r.RunStaticMethod("com.google.analytics.tracking.android.EasyTracker", "getInstance", Null, Null)
    r.Target = r.RunMethod4("setContext", Array As Object(r.GetContext), Array As String("android.content.Context"))
End Sub

Otherwise an exception will be thrown.

@Erel:
Perhaps this info can be added to the first post?

 

[Erel]

Done. Thank you.

 

[ajk]

Is it possible to track sevice modules?

 

[Erel]

The purpose of this library is to track user interaction. Services are hidden from the user.

I guess that you can use TrackEvent to track when the service is started.

 

[Ratna Fang]

hi erel,

i followed from the top, but i have a little bit confused about deploying google analytics.

here are the steps
1. declaring in global: Dim Tracker As AnalyticsTracker
2. Put this code in Activity_Resume: GoogleTracker.Start
3. Put this code in Activity_Pause: Tracker.Stop
4. if i want to track automatically, not manual, can i just put this code:

Tracker.TrackEvent("c1", "a1", "l1", 100)
Tracker.Dispatch

in Activity_Created ?

is there any link which i can find the documentation about the trackevent parameters?

thanks