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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 versions


When you develop applications for mobile devices, it's obvious that you will evolve your application at every stage, pushing the latest updates for the application, which creates a new version of the application on the application store. To track the application based on these versions, you need to set up the Flurry to track your application versions as well. This can be done using the following code:

[Flurry setAppVersion:App_Version_Number];

So by using the aforementioned method, you can track your application based on its version. For example, if you have released an application and unfortunately it's having a critical bug, then you can track your application based on the current version and the errors that are tracked by Flurry from the application.

You can access data generated from Flurry's Dashboards by navigating to Flurry Classic. This will, by default, load a time-based graph of the application session for all versions. However, you can access the user session graph...