basic usage analytics

[7yl4r]

I'd like to add some basic tracking to the app before releasing, and there are two things which need to be addressed:

1. what questions do we have that might be answered with analytics?
2. what analytics software should we use?

Here are my ideas for (1):

• at what point to people quit the game and not play any more?
• what config options do player prefer?
• what weapon powerups do players seem to prefer?
• what weapon powerups lead to the highest score increase?
• what is the distribution of player scores?
• what options/configs result in higher scores?
• what performance level is the game being run at?
• host demographics (OS, memory, graphics, etc)

For (2), we have a myriad of (free) options, my two favorites are:

• Count.ly : b/c I've used it before and liked it
• Google Analytics : b/c of widespread use

Have you used anything like this before @BrianErikson ?

[7yl4r]

countly & google analytics support on java is weak (they both focus on android mostly). There are some 3rd party libraries for google analytics, and a usable REST interface for countly, but I've also found the mixpanel java API documentation quite beautiful. Because of this, I'm leaning towards mixpanel currently.

[BrianErikson]

I've never used Mixpanel but it looks perfect to me