Documentation/Examples

[stephenlind]

I've implemented the Google Analytics API in my iOS app, would love to test your SDK out in an OS X app. Do you have any code examples for how it's intended to be used?

I am a little confused because it does not seem to have the same Screen/Tracker structure as the iOS SDK. Even an example unit test would be helpful.

I'd be willing to assist by helping with documentation/examples/whatever.

[noahsw]

Thanks for the interest Stephen. You're right -- I should add some code samples. If you could help me, that'd be great.

Calling the library is really simple. This is the method you want:

AnalyticsHelper -- fireEvent: (NSString*)eventAction eventValue:(NSNumber*)eventValue

So something like this:

 [AnalyticsHelper fireEvent:@"App load count" eventValue:5]

I also just realized my site's URL is hard coded into that method. That should definitely be removed ;-)

[stephenlind]

I spent some more time playing with different OS X analytics solutions.

With your solution, unfortunately, I kept getting no response from the URL request to google (failure) which makes me think there is an issue with the constructed URL.

I did find this project, though, and so far it is working for me; the app successfully masquerades as a mobile app.

https://github.com/Coppertino/AnalyticEverything

[noahsw]

Hmm... can you paste in the constructed URL and the method you're calling? I use this library in my production app and it's been tracking things just fine.

[naorcho]

I added as a reference the workspace and then tried to call [AnalyticsHelper fireEvent:@"App load count" eventValue:5]

but how should I import the library? Please post some more info, or upload an example project.

[stephenlind]

Sorry for a very slow response. I gave this library another try, it still does not seem to be actually getting to google (according to the real-time usage). I'm using an iOS app analytics profile, not a web one.

http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmt=event&utmhid=994326472&utmip=213.35.159.130&utmje=0&utmdt=&utmsc=-&utmul=-&utmr=-&utmsr=-&gaq=1&utmfl=-&utmcs=UTF-8&utmp=/&utmcc=__utma=0.13354765.1378372265.1378372265.1378372265.2%3B+__utmz=0.1378372265.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)%7Cutmccn=(direct)%7Cutmcmd=(none)%3B&utmn=431169405&utmhn=&utmni=1&utmac=UA-41476611-1&utme=5(Mac%201.0*Launch*46FF3A8B-CBB4-46E6-B1F9-D4D730352331)(0)&utmwv=5.2.2d&

In order to get to this place, I did not use the framework, but rather copied the source files to my own project. This is because I couldn't figure out how to import AnalyticsHelper.h in order to use it (you don't have any public headers, even after I attempted to make AnalyticsHelper.h a public header, it still wouldn't import).

Admittedly, I am not very experienced with building 3rd party Objective-C frameworks outside of cocoapods into my projects, but I suspect there may be something actually missing here.

By the way, I stopped using the AnalyticEverything framework (mentioned above) because it was causing crashes :). If I can get this to work I'd be happy to help with posting an example app.

Thanks for any assistance!

[noahsw]

Hey Stephen -- I also apologise for the slow response. I had some moments of inspiration today and put together a sample project that demonstrates how to interface with the SDK. Take a look and let me know if it helps.

I haven't changed anything with regards to the URL that gets sent to Google. If you're still not seeing your events show up, I'll have to do some digging. But like I said before, I have an app in production that uses this and the events show up just fine.