PlayN.analytics() readiness?

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Sergey Mukhin

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May 11, 2013, 8:47:58 AM5/11/13
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Hi guy's
just wonder, when PlayN.analytics() will be done for Android and iOS?


I suppose to collect next metrics from my Android, iOS players:

1) Activation ID, device name  - to identify piracy level
2) window width, height size, current scale - to identify witch devices has  unacceptable screen sizes (too small or too large) to setup scale or to change design
3) exits from game and dies on each level - to correct levels difficulty and correct it's sequence
4) die positions - to correct difficult places in game
5) last crashes - to track bugs, to exclude unacceptable devices or modify code

Would PlayN.analytics() work with Google Analytics and would be possible to collect this information from devices, or I have to use third party library for this?


interesting what you are using for this in Spellwood game?

Michael Bayne

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May 11, 2013, 9:42:05 AM5/11/13
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PlayN.Analytics should be deprecated and removed. It has never been implemented on any backend except HTML and probably never will. Furthermore Google Analytics is designed for tracking website analytics, not mobile app analytics, and thus you'd end up with a crap experience even if it did work.

Would PlayN.analytics() work with Google Analytics and would be possible to collect this information from devices, or I have to use third party library for this?

interesting what you are using for this in Spellwood game?

I used Flurry, which is designed to track analytics for iOS and Android apps and which is trivial to integrate into a PlayN game.

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Fred Sauer

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May 11, 2013, 11:12:32 AM5/11/13
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Not to steer anyone in any particular direction. Just wanted to mention that there is a native option for Google Analytics, which I agree is a much better way to go than trying to use a web product in an environment it wasn't designed for.

I believe this is the most recent blog post:
http://analytics.blogspot.com/2013/02/upgrade-to-next-generation-mobile-app.html?m=1

And here some docs for Android and iOS:

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/android/

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/ios/

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