iPhone App Google Analytics

Question

I am having issues setting up Google Analytics for my iPhone Application. I have a website that I have sucesfully been using Google Analytics on, and so I am pretty familiar with how it works.

I set up a new fake domain with the following formation: myapp.mysite.com. I got the UA ID that was made and used that as shown below.

In my iPhone application's "didfinishlaunching" method, I have the following code:

[[GANTracker sharedTracker] startTrackerWithAccountID:@"UA-XXXXXXXX-X"
                                       dispatchPeriod:kGANDispatchPeriodSec
                                             delegate:nil];
NSError *error;
if (![[GANTracker sharedTracker] trackEvent:@"test" action:@"my_action" label:@"my_label" value:-1 withError:&error]) {
        NSLog(@"error ocurred");
}

where UA-XXXXXXXX-X is filled in with my ID.

I install the application on my phone, run the app for over 20 minutes, and google analytics still states that "tracking is not installed."

What is wrong here?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Here are a few things to try:

First, try adding

BOOL success = [[GANTracker sharedTracker] dispatch];

to the end of your code and testing the value of success.

Second, I don't see kGANDispatchPeriodSec defined in GANTracker.h. Is this a const that you're creating? Pass in a 0 as the dispatchPeriod instead so dispatches are sent immediately instead of batched. (You'll want to change this before you submit your app.)

Finally, implement GANTrackerDelegate on your class and see what's happening in the trackerDispatchDidComplete:eventsDispatched:eventsFailedDispatch call. This will tell you if your dispatch calls are failing, but unfortunately won't tell you why.

See this link about adopting a protocol on your class. In your .m file, add the following:

#pragma mark GANTrackerDelegate

- (void)trackerDispatchDidComplete:(GANTracker *)tracker
                  eventsDispatched:(NSUInteger)eventsDispatched
              eventsFailedDispatch:(NSUInteger)eventsFailedDispatch {
    NSLog(@"events dispatched: %d, events failed: %d", eventsDispatched, eventsFailedDispatch);
}