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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 your crashes


It's obvious that applications crash wildly when used even after exhaustive testing. Flurry helps you to investigate your crashes with very specific details that bring down the fixing time for developers. Flurry provides you with details such as the version number, device details, location, and exceptions.

Flurry supports Crash Analytics and offers the following advantages:

  • It easily tracks when your application crashes

  • It reports nonfatal errors that do not cause crashes

  • It provides unique names for specific errors and exceptions

Flurry produces good crash reporting results by resymbolicating crash reports from a device; this whole process is executed on the client side. You have to provide the desymbolication file to resymbolicate the crash reports generated by Flurry.

Crash Analytics is included from iOS 4.2 onwards, so make sure that you are using the latest SDK in your project.

Crash Analytics is disabled by default; you can enable it by using the following code to report...