Create mobile app GA account
- In GA, go to Admin tab, click ACCOUNT drop down and select 'Create new account'.
- On New Account page, pick 'Mobile app'. Specify your account name, your app name, industry category etc.
- Click on 'Get Tracking ID'
- You can create multiple Tracking ID for the same mobile app by selecting 'Create new property' under 'PROPERTY' section
1. Install Google Analytics using CocoaPods:
- If you haven't use pod for our current iOS app, open a terminal and cd to your Xcode project of your app, run: pod init to create a Podfile
- Open Podfile, and add: pod 'Google/Analytics'
- Now install pod by running this: pod install
- As of now, it installs the following libraries:
- Google (1.3.2)
- GoogleAnalytics (3.14.0)
- GoogleInterchangeUtilities (1.1.0)
- GoogleNetworkingUtilities (1.0.0)
- GoogleSymbolUtilities (1.0.3)
- GoogleUtilities (1.1.0)
- On 'PROPERTY' section, select .js > Tracking Code
- Then 'Getting started guide' link next to 'Google Analytics iOS SDK
- It will take you to 'Analytics for iOS' page. Select which language you use for iOS development, for me I select Swift
- Then click on 'GET A CONFIGURATION FILE' button, it looks like this:
- It will bring you to this page. where you can:
- Specify your app name and iOS bundle ID
- Choose and configure services (check Analytics)
- Download generated GoogleService-Info.plist file
3. Update your iOS app to include GA and configure GGLContext
- Add GoogleService-Info.plist to your iOS app
- Add #Import "Google/Analytics.h" to your app's Bridging-Header.h
- Add GA related header files to your project
- Override AppDelegate's didFinishLaunchingWithOptions to configure GGLContext:
//Configure tracker from GoogleService-Info.plist.
var configureError:NSError?
GGLContext.sharedInstance().configureWithError(&configureError)
assert(configureError == nil, "Error configuring Google services: \(configureError)")
// Optional: configure GAI options.
let gai = GAI.sharedInstance()
gai.trackUncaughtExceptions = true // report uncaught exceptions
gai.logger.logLevel = GAILogLevel.Verbose // remove before app release
4. Add screen tracking
- In your major screen view controller, add tracking code to the end of its viewWillAppear method:
let tracker = GAI.sharedInstance().defaultTracker
tracker.set(kGAIScreenName, value: screenName)
let builder = GAIDictionaryBuilder.createScreenView()
tracker.send(builder.build() as [NSObject : AnyObject])
Verify tracking
- Run your iOS app, navigate to screens with GA tracking code
- In GA Real-Time, you should be able to see a screen view:)
