Android is here, where is the pure java version ?

[maxx]

Hi,

Any chance there will be a pure java version instead of the Android
tied version ?

Is the sourcecode available for the Android version so we could create
a pure java version ?

/max

[Nick]

Hi,

This group is meant for our Data Export API, but you have a valid
question so I'll respond here.

The current Andriod Java library is really designed to track mobile
applications and why it's tied so closely to the Andriod SDK. Also we
currently have no publicly supported method for sending tracking data
directly to Google Analytics and one of the reasons why this Android
library is not open source.

That being said, if you have use cases for using a standalone Java
library for tracking, we would like to better understand them. Let us
know.

Thanks!
-Nick

[maxx]

> This group is meant for our Data Export API, but you have a valid
> question so I'll respond here.

If you can point me to a more relevant group let me know ( I just
followed the link about forum from the google analytics api pages )

> That being said, if you have use cases for using a standalone Java
> library for tracking, we would like to better understand them. Let us
> know.

My usecase is to track events and usages from something like Eclipse
plugins or any java application for that matter.

/max

[caclark]

On Dec 21 2009, 8:17 pm, Nick wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This group is meant for our Data Export API, but you have a valid
> question so I'll respond here.
>

> The current AndriodJavalibrary is really designed to track mobile

> applications and why it's tied so closely to the Andriod SDK. Also we
> currently have no publicly supported method for sending tracking data
> directly to Google Analytics and one of the reasons why this Android
> library is not open source.
>
> That being said, if you have use cases for using a standaloneJava
> library for tracking, we would like to better understand them. Let us
> know.
>
> Thanks!
> -Nick
>
> On Dec 18, 1:37 pm, maxx wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>

> > Any chance there will be a purejavaversion instead of the Android

> > tied version ?
>
> > Is the sourcecode available for the Android version so we could create
> > a purejavaversion ?
>
> > /max

I know this thread has grown a bit cold and was a bit OT, but I do
have a use case to add.

We send out HTML emails. We'd like to track how many people see them
with image display turned on. Embedding an <img> that src's a server
side invocation that returns image/jpeg or image/gif is very easy (and
already done in all languages). It would be nice in the server side
code to invoke the tracking API so we can log that image retrieval.

I've seen the Android API, too, and can't see why things should be
tied to that so tightly. We should be able to invoke it from server
side Java or a client as maxx asked. We should also be able to supply
the all important IP address, too, so that we could log where the
image request came from and not the address of the Java app server.

Cary