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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)

Settings goals


In the previous chapter, we learnt about setting up and installing Flurry in your project. In this chapter, we will track an application and its specific sections using goals to generate detailed reports. Your goals will vary depending on your requirements for the data you want to gather from your application. So Flurry provides you with a way to track all your events using your event ID.

You can use the following code to track the event:

[Flurry logEvent:@"EVENT_NAME"];

The logEvent: method logs your event every time it's triggered during the application session. This method helps you to track how often that event is triggered. You can track up to 300 different event IDs. However, the length of each event ID should be less than 255 characters.

After the event is triggered, you can track that event from your Flurry dashboard. As is explained in the following screenshot, your events will be listed in the Events section. After clicking on Event Summary, you can see a list of the...