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Getting Started with Flurry Analytics

By : Bhanu Birani
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Getting Started with Flurry Analytics

By: Bhanu Birani

Overview of this book

Analytics help you to understand the way your users are interacting with your mobile application. Flurry provides you with a strong analytics tool to keep track of your application and to analyze your application data without much hassle. It provides an SDK for almost all platforms to gather data from all platforms of mobile and web applications. The enormous amount of data Flurry handles directly translates into unique, powerful insights into your applications.Getting Started with Flurry Analytics is a practical, hands-on guide to instantly getting started with Flurry analytics using step-by-step exercises. You will take advantage of the real power of Flurry analytics and provides you with an example-based learning approach to help you master it quickly and efficiently.This book starts by discussing how to set up and integrate Flurry analytics and ends by making you aware of how to track your application using Parse. You will also learn about tracking your application data using Flurry analytics to strengthen your strategies and to improve the application monetization process. You will also learn about configuration and implementation of Flurry analytics and how to make the application track all the necessary details to empower management decisions.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Integrating the library with your project


Click on the download button to download the Flurry SDK for an iPhone. You will get the following files after extracting the downloaded zipped file:

  • ProjectApiKey.txt: This file holds the name of your project and your project's API key

  • Analytics-README.pdf: This file contains all the instructions to use Flurry

  • FlurryAnalytics/FlurryAnalytics.h: This is a header file that contains all the methods that are required for Flurry integration

  • FlurryAnalytics/libFlurryAnalytics.a: This is the required library that contains the files related to Flurry's collection along with its reporting code

Carry out the following steps to add the Flurry SDK to your project:

  1. Launch the finder and drag the Flurry/ folder in your Project file folder. (Note that in case you are upgrading the Flurry SDK, make sure that you remove the existing Flurry folder from the project).

  2. Now open your project and add the Flurry files by navigating to File | Add Files to <YOUR_PROJECT> to see the following screen:

  3. After adding Flurry, add the SystemConfiguration.framework file in your application. This framework is required for Reachability functions to manage your network-related operations efficiently.