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Analytics help you to understand the way your users are interacting with your mobile application. Flurry provides you with a strong analytics tool to keep track of your application and to analyze your application data without much hassle. It provides an SDK for almost all platforms to gather data from all platforms of mobile and web applications. The enormous amount of data Flurry handles directly translates into unique, powerful insights into your applications.Getting Started with Flurry Analytics is a practical, hands-on guide to instantly getting started with Flurry analytics using step-by-step exercises. You will take advantage of the real power of Flurry analytics and provides you with an example-based learning approach to help you master it quickly and efficiently.This book starts by discussing how to set up and integrate Flurry analytics and ends by making you aware of how to track your application using Parse. You will also learn about tracking your application data using Flurry analytics to strengthen your strategies and to improve the application monetization process. You will also learn about configuration and implementation of Flurry analytics and how to make the application track all the necessary details to empower management decisions.

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Table of Contents

Getting Started with Flurry Analytics
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Getting Ready with Flurry
About Analytics
The importance of Analytics in the use of applications
The advantages of using Analytics
Tracking social productivity
Determining unique visitors
Determining user behavior
Monitoring the performance of your ads
Determining your content sources
Evaluating traffic flow to your application
Setting up an account on Flurry Analytics
Integrating the library with your project
Setting up basic code
Sessions
Active Users
New Users
Session Length
Frequency of Use
Benchmarks
Page Views
User Paths
Lifecycle Metrics
User Retention
Version Adoption
Demographic Estimates
Time of Day Reporting
Geographic Usage
Language Metrics
Devices
Carriers
Firmware Versions
Logging Events
Events
Event Parameter
Event Duration
Segmentation
Summary
2. Tracking Applications
Settings goals
Tracking time spent
Tracking errors
Tracking versions
User details
Location tracking
Controlling data
Summary
3. Data Analysis
Funnel analysis
Segments
Portfolio Analytics
User Acquisition analysis
Customizing your dashboard
Crash Analytics
Big Data benefits
Summary
4. Technical Analytics
Tracking your crashes
Stack traces
Uploading dSYM
Response format
Error codes
Tracking errors
Summary
5. Using Your Data
Measuring user quality
User acquisition
User retention
User engagement
User monetization
Platforms and devices
Investors and sponsors
Crash detection
Alerts
Daily and hourly reporting
User acceptance
Summary
Index

Getting Started with Flurry Analytics

Getting Started with Flurry Analytics

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Credits

Author

Bhanu Birani

Reviewers

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Benjamin Bahrenburg

Tom Meinlschmidt

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About the Author

Bhanu Birani has four years of experience in the software industry and a lifetime association with the technical industry. After years of programming in different programming languages, he started developing applications for iOS devices. He started software development during his college years and was really interested in learning new technologies in the market. He then joined a software company and started developing games for them, focusing on artificial intelligence development in games.

I would like to dedicate this book to my family, who gave me the courage and confidence to write this book and supported me throughout the entire process. I would also like to send a special thanks to my mom (Neelu Birani) and dad (Prakash Birani) for their relentless efforts to assist me in every way imaginable, as well as for helping me keep my life together. Finally, I would like to thank my friend Luke P. Issac for helping me on this project and encouraging me when it seemed too difficult to complete.

About the Reviewers

Benjamin Bahrenburg is an author, blogger, and technology director. Ben specializes in building enterprise solutions using mobile technologies, geo location services, and domain-specific languages. Over the last decade, he has provided enterprise mobility solutions for numerous Fortune 100 organizations. Ben is a published writer who has authored several articles and Appcelerator Titanium Business Application Development Cookbook, Packt Publishing, which provides best practices and recipes for successful enterprise cross-platform mobile development.

Ben spends much of his time blogging and speaking about mobile, enterprise, and open source development at http://bencoding.com. You can also reach him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/bencoding.

Tom Meinlschmidt started his professional career in 1998. He is a senior software developer with expertise in Ruby and Ruby on Rails. He has developed various types of applications for a variety of companies, and he specializes in web and iOS applications. He is also interested in new technologies and modern programming languages, 3D modeling, rendering, and embedded systems (ARM). When he's not working on his Mac, he's flying as a commercial helicopter pilot. You can find his blog at tom.meinlschmidt.org.

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Preface

Flurry Analytics provides you with an independent way of tracking your application, with a seamlessly user-friendly, web-based interface to access all the statistical data. Flurry emphasizes providing better control for management over their application and in turn, helps with management decisions by improving product roadmaps to have better user acquisition, engagement, and retention.

This book will teach you the fundamentals of getting started with Flurry Analytics and integrating it in your iOS application. As this book is meant to quickly get you familiar with Flurry and will cover all the important aspects of Flurry Analytics and its iOS SDK, it will cover a lot of subjects very quickly. Throughout the book, we will be dealing with the direct implementations by using effective examples and code. This approach will help you implement the example code and integrate the same thing in to your project quickly.

Working with Flurry is easy. This book will allow you to set up your application in no time. The book explains all the topics using code and includes lots of useful tips that explain all the little parts of Flurry.

One of the key points is segmentation and funnel, which helps you track your application usage for specific user paths. Flurry works for multiplatform applications and web development as well. Flurry also helps you to increase application monetization with better user retention and engagement strategies.

What this book covers

This book is written to get you familiar with the basic fundamentals of using Flurry to fulfil your application analytics. To achieve this, the book is organized in easy to understand examples and codes.

Chapter 1, Getting Ready with Flurry, starts by looking at advantages of using Flurry Analytics. Then, you will learn about configuring your account and applications on Flurry and Flurry's integration in your project. Finally, we will end the chapter by adding some code so you can start tracking applications on Flurry.

Chapter 2, Tracking Applications, explains the ways to set up goals to track your application on Flurry. We'll learn about various ways to track application data in terms of time spent by users on the application, module-based tracking, and tracking the specific version of application.

Chapter 3, Data Analysis, will explain the ways to analyze the data generated by Flurry. This chapter also explains the various features of Flurry that help when analyzing data to generate significant information.

Chapter 4, Technical Analytics, starts by exploring the ways to track application crashes and reading crash analytics data. This chapter also explains how to gather data to stabilize your application. Then finally, we will learn about data usage and its advantages in market analysis.

Chapter 5, Using Your Data, starts by explaining the ways in which the data generated by Flurry can be used to strengthen strategies. Then we will learn about various ways to use the features provided by Flurry to enhance its analytic capabilities. Then we will learn about Push sending options. Finally, we will learn some ways to read the statistics and graphs generated by Flurry.

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