How To Add Google Analytics In iOS App?

Gordon Choi
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Chapter 16 – Google Mobile App Analytics iOS SDK

iOS

Let’s implement the Google Analytics SDK onto your iOS app.

.xcworkspace

The iOS SDK implementation assumes your app’s source code is written in Objective-C and you use CocoaPods to install and manage dependencies.

Open a terminal window and navigate to the location of the Xcode project for your application. Create a Podfile for your application if it doesn’t exist.

pod init

Open the Podfile and add the following:

pod 'Google/Analytics'

Save the Podfile and run:

pod install

A .xcworkspace file will be created for your application.

Configuration file

Download the configuration file.

https://developers.google.com/mobile/add?platform=ios&cntapi=analytics&cnturl=https:%2F%2Fdevelopers.google.com%2Fanalytics%2Fdevguides%2Fcollection%2Fios%2Fv3%2Fapp%3Fconfigured%3Dtrue%23add%2Dconfig&cntlbl=Continue%20Adding%20Analytics

Drag the GoogleService-Info.plist file (i.e. configuration file) into the root of your Xcode project and add it to all targets.

AppDelegate.m

Add this to the AppDelegate.m file:

#import <Google/Analytics.h>

To configure GGLContext, override the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method:

NSError *configureError;
[[GGLContext sharedInstance] configureWithError:&configureError];
NSAssert(!configureError, @"Error configuring Google services: %@", configureError);
GAI *gai = [GAI sharedInstance];
gai.trackUncaughtExceptions = YES;  // report uncaught exceptions
gai.logger.logLevel = kGAILogLevelVerbose;  // remove before app release

ViewController.m

Let’s add the tracker to track screen views in your iOS View Controller.

In ViewController.m, add the <Google/Analytics.h> header. Use a viewWillAppear method or function override to insert screen tracking. Give the screen a name and execute tracking.

id tracker = [[GAI sharedInstance] defaultTracker];
[tracker set:kGAIScreenName value:name];
[tracker send:[[GAIDictionaryBuilder createScreenView] build]];

Previous Chapters

Chapter 15 – Google Mobile App Analytics

Next Chapters

Chapter 17 – Google Mobile App Analytics Android SDK
Chapter 18 – Definitions of Metrics & Dimensions
Chapter 19 – Web Server Log Analytics

Content on Gordon Choi’s Analytics Book is licensed under the CC Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International license.

Gordon Choi’s Other Books:
The China Mobile SEO Book
Mobile Website Book

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