I notice there is no detailed insight on my app on iTunesConnect like android insight GooglePlay.
Is there any way to track user detail on every user install my app? I need more distinct information like, iOS version, phone provider, phone type, etc across installed app like in Android insight? does Google Analytics could do this?
Thank you.
There are quite a lot of analytics providers around that cater for iOS. As you mentioned, Google Analytics (which is free) should do what you need. Mixpanel is a really nice provider, but is only free for a certain amount of data. I've also used Flurry in the past (also free), but I find their web interface to be quite clunky.
If you want to track sales and App Store reviews, I'd really recommend AppFigures. Great service (paid, but a low monthly cost and you can cancel whenever), which gives you great insight into who's downloading your apps.
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I am writing to you for the first time. I would like to know if with the "webview" configuration (https://firebase.google.com/docs/analytics/android/webview), it's good for hybrid apps and if you can track the transactions carried out on the institutional site, more precisely the payment takes place on the site and not within the app and understand that users who have converted arrive from the app and not from other channels. Thank you in advance for your opinion.
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I know this questions is asked several times and it seems Google terms & conditions agreement doesn't allow for apps using navigation. Also I know there are few third party libraries which can do the same task.
But my client need to do it using Google Map SDK and saying it can be done using paid APIs. I couldn't find any reliable resources to convince him that he is correct or wrong. Thus, I wonder how apps like Uber do this trick in their apps? What are the other options do I have?. Thanks.
No, this cannot legally be done.
Even Google does not have the right to allow the usage for Turn-by_Turn navigation. Google gets their digital road maps mainly from TomTom, and they just do not allow that, because they want to sell their own navigation devices.
It might be possible to sign a contract with TomTom and Google for special data delivery. But you can expect extreme costs, per year per navigation device.
The other professional digital road map provider is Here maps(former Nokia).
I don't know if and under which condition they provide a routing service.
Be warned, developping a navigation system is a very complex task, I know a company that invested 1000 person years, after some years on the market, that company stopped their activities.
Check first whether it is legal to use Apples API, and then use that, or forget the app.
I hope this is not off topic for StackOverflow since it is not just software development related but also marketing. But I guess this problem is something we developers are all confronted to.
To monitor and market our iOS app, we use a bunch of third party SDKs:
Google Analytics to understand what's happening
a push notification system (e.g. Urban Airship)
a "smart" review prompting engine (e.g. Apptentive)
a testing / crash reporting system (e.g. Testflight)
should you want to run app installs ads, you also need the FB SDK, an SDK to track Twitter conversions, etc.
you may also want to track where other installs come from via something like Tapstream.
So we are already running more than 6 3rd party SDKs in our app, and it does not feel right:
each of them will do some kind of hand shake every time the app is opened
it's as many potential issues
each of them will have a different web interface
Is there a way to optimise all this, i.e. to have just one SDK doing most things? Or does someone know of a lib to wrap all this stuff under one lib for instance?
There is no getting around a few of these. If you want to talk with FaceBook, Twitter, etc. You will need their SDK no matter the 3rd party SDK you choose.
You could actually write your own setup to track and deal with everything, but there are those that have done it before.
For example, Parse will do:
Analytics
push notifications
a "smart" review prompting engine (you can do this yourself by reviewing the analytics)
crash reporting system
it also uses FB SDK, Twitter SDK already to help with user logins where users my want to use their credentials from their sites on your app
user login
cloud database
You could technically throw an "event" into the analytics to track how many folks are using your app that was installed from x store. However, this would require a different version of your app for each store. Sounds like an interesting idea none the less. Tapstreme and others are basically marketing though, not really something required to do something specific. You will need an SDK if they are tracking something specific themselves.
one web interface
There are multiple systems built like this. they are called BaaS or Backend as a Service.
Hope this helps, Cheers
I wan to integrate analytics in one of my project. I know Flurry analytics and Google analytics are good options, but both of these server are not tracking realtime data. It shows update after few hours on dashboard.
Is There any real time Analytics tool/library available which I can easily integrate with ios App?
On google Analytics, there is a real time tab, where you can watch how many users are using your app, where they are from, which version of your app they are using,...
I really like Appsee for real-time app analytics - and it’s super easy to integrate with an iOS app. Session recordings is one of the coolest features they offer, and it allows you to see exactly what was going on in the user journey (trends, crashes, bugs, ANR, etc.). You see everything in real time, which is great for understanding any issues in the app and quickly fixing / improving.
I'm an iOS newbie, but was wondering if it's possible to use a built-in API to determine how much time another app was active during some period (say, the last 24 hours). I don't have access to the source code for the other app.
I'm guessing that security precautions in iOS make this impossible, but wanted to see if anyone else had suggestions.
Thanks!
You don't and can't get usage data of other apps on the system, unless you own those apps or have a formal relationship with the developer of said app.
You can try using Google Analytics for iOS
http://code.google.com/mobile/analytics/docs/iphone/
Flurry API allows you to track a number of things and report back. You might start with something like that. There are a number of Analytics solutions.