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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)

Tracking time spent


Flurry allows you to track events based on the duration factor as well. You can use the [Flurry logEvent: timed:] method to log your event in time as shown in the following code:

[Flurry logEvent:@"EVENT_NAME" timed:YES];

In case you want to pass additional parameters along with the event name, you can use the following type of the logEvent: method to start a timed event for event Parameters as shown in the following code:

  [Flurry logEvent:@"EVENT_NAME" withParameters:YOUR_NSDictionary timed:YES];

The aforementioned method can help you to track your timed event along with the dynamic data provided in the dictionary format.

You can end all your timed events before the application exits. This can even be accomplished by updating the event with event Parameters. If you want to end your events without updating the parameters, you can pass nil as the parameters.

If you do not end your events, they will automatically end when the application exits as shown in the following code...