I have integrated Google Analytics in my app, and it is certainly more info (I also have Flurry).
Oddly out of all of these, I find AppBrain new installs and DAU graphs to be much more reliable or believable (may not be true - but I wind up looking at AppBrain console repeatedly during the day to check how downloads are going after an upgrade etc.).
Anyway, coming to the question about Google Analytics - I have integrated Tapjoy in an app, and I would like to “double-check” user earning of Tapjoy coins etc. - for that I thought maybe use Google Analytics Events or their Ecommerce. It seems Events would suffice - as it has these settings:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/android/v2/events
String Category
String Action
String Label
Long (Optional) Value
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/android/v3/events
This seems like it will be good way to record the coins earned by user (note there is no per-user detail I would be storing - just as something to compare with Tapjoy revenue numbers).
Am I correct in thinking this would be usable this way - so far I am not sure how this will look like in Google Analytics (how it will show this string/long data).
Secondly, I am a little confused by the v3 and v2 versions of the help (v2 seems much simpler). I think the Google Analytics .jar file I downloaded is v2 (maybe Google has updated to v3 now).
However I can’t find a “download SDK” section on the Google Analytics webpage. The last time I got a link to download SDK .jar file was when I set up an app. Their help also suggests that’s when .jar link will be shown.
However I go into Admin and it shows:
Account/Property/View
And I try to create a dummy Account - but it seems to be editing one pre-existing one - I already have 3 accounts (2 are working with 2 apps, and 1 is for an upcoming app).
At least this was my naive understanding - it turns out their help now suggests that there maybe a limit to the number of accounts (it has language like “before you run out of accounts” etc. ??). And it suggests that different apps should be added as a “Property” (and not as an Account I presume). And for same app can add Android/iOS as different “Views” for that Property.
Obviously I have underread their explanation (if there was one when I signed up) - and I and Google Analytics are on different pages about how to organize apps/variants etc.
I would also like to get a link to a Google Analytics SDK - since it is not obvously visible (maybe it is wearing a Harry Potter cloak).
Any help would be appreciated !