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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)

Segments


Segments are basically different categories of application users who represent a group. We can create segments that will help us to monitor a finely tuned group of typical users. For example, you can create a segment of users who are adults, a segment of users who are male, a segment of user who are female, and so on.

The parameters for segmentation can include the following:

  1. Date range

  2. Custom events

  3. Usage

  4. Location

  5. User gender

  6. User age range

  7. User language

To create segments, go to the Manage tab on the left-hand side bar and click on the Segments item in its drop-down list.

You will find the Create New Segment button as show in the following screenshot:

Clicking on the Create New Segment button will take you to the parameter setting page. Here you can set up the date range criteria, usage criteria, user/audience specific criteria, location criteria, and name your segment from the Date Range, Usage, Custom Events, Audience, and Location tabs respectively as shown in the following screenshot...