Google Reporter

Easily integrate Google Analytics into your iOS, macOS, and tvOS app without downloading any of the Google SDKs.

Read why I created Google Reporter here

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Google has officially discontiuned the option for mobile analytics tracking through Google Analytics. New apps are asked to use Firebase. Existing apps will stop collecting data on October 31, 2019. It is however still possible to use this library by setting up new tracking properties as websites instead of mobile apps (See #14).

Set Up

Works with Carthage & CocoaPods or just put GoogleReporter.swift into your project.

From your AppDelegate’s didFinishLaunchingWithOptions or where you initialize your app. You need to configure the
GoogleReporter with UA-XXXXX-XX tracker ID.

import GoogleReporter

@UIApplicationMain
class AppDelegate: UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate {
    func application(_ application: UIApplication,
                     didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
        GoogleReporter.shared.configure(withTrackerId: "UA-XXXXX-XX")

        return true
    }
}

Events

You can track any event you wish to using the event() method on the GoogleReporter. Example:

func didCompleteSignUp() {
    GoogleReporter.shared.event("Authentication", action: "Sign Up Completed")
}

Screenviews

In many cases you’ll want to track what “screens” that the user navigates to. A natural place to do that is in your ViewControllers viewDidAppear.
You can use the screenView() method of the GoogleReporter which works the same as event().

class BeerViewController: UIViewController {
    override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
        super.viewDidAppear(animated)
	GoogleReporter.shared.screenView("Beer")
    }
}

Sessions

You can track individual sessions for a user by calling session(start: true) when the user opens the app and session(start: false) when they close the app. Here’s an example of how to do that in your apps UIApplicationDelegate:

import GoogleReporter

@UIApplicationMain
class AppDelegate: UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate {
    func application(_ application: UIApplication,
                     didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
        GoogleReporter.shared.configure(withTrackerId: "UA-XXXXX-XX")

        return true
    }
    
    func applicationDidBecomeActive(_ application: UIApplication) {
        GoogleReporter.shared.session(start: true)
    }
    
    func applicationDidEnterBackground(_ application: UIApplication) {
        GoogleReporter.shared.session(start: false)
    }
}

Technical Notes

In order to be GDPR compliant, Google Reporter will ask Google Analytics to anonymize users IP’s by default. If you wish to opt-out of this you will neeed
to set anonymizeIP to false.

The GoogleReporter uses the native UserDefaults.standard to store a random UUID that uniquely identifies the user/install. Clearing or otherwise tampering
with the UserDefaults may cause the user identifier to be lost and the GoogleReporter will generate a new unique identifier.

The GoogleReporter class is not thread-safe. To avoid bugs, always use the GoogleReporter.shared accessor from the same thread. I suggest using the main thread.
The network call to log the data will still happen on a background thread.

Roadmap

We’re planning to to add more functionality to easily interact with the Measurement Protocol.

• [x] macOS compatability
• [x] Session tracking; start, end, duration.
• [ ] Custom variable tracking for screenviews

License

Copyright 2017 Kristian Andersen

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