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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)

User details


Flurry provides many methods to track users based on their information. For example, if you need to track the user based on their ID, you can use the following code:

[Flurry setUserID:@"USER_ID"];

Note that as per the terms of service, you are not allowed to pass the Unique Device ID (UDID) of the device as a parameter in this method.

After identifying the user based on their ID, you can use the following method to track their age (the input parameter should be greater than 0).

[Flurry setAge:23];

After tracking the user's age, you can access the data generated by Flurry to analyze the age group of the users who use the application the most, as shown in the following screenshot:

To identify the gender of the user, you can use the following method:

[Flurry setGender:@"m"];

The preceding code takes either m for male or f for female to specify the gender. After tracking the user's gender through the application, you can access the application's generated data through Flurry. You can navigate...