From: javaposse@googlegroups.com To: javaposse@googlegroups.com Cc: Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 20:32:21 +0930 Subject: Re: [The Java Posse] Android Market analytics
Hi Fabrizio,> > blueBill looks good http://bluebill.tidalwave.it/mobile/ (that is what we are talking about right?) Thanks - yes, that's it. I guess that I'll blog a lot about it in the upcoming weeks as I'm going to stuff it with all my favourite topics (media, plugin-based designs and RDF stores ;-) Too bad the first and so far unique comment I received on the store is from a user that asserts that he couldn't run it on the Droid Eris :-((( I mean, I've tested it (manually) on 1.5, 1.6 (emulator) and 2.1 (Motorola Droid). I've been used to have this kind of feedback for JME deployments, but for Android I really didn't expect it. > > I have used Flurry (http://flurry.com) and Google Analytics (GA) for mobile > > apps > > (http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/mobileAppsTracking.html). > > Google Analytics includes some special info about app store > > referrals: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/mobileAppsTrackingAndroid.html > > I found Flurry helped me a lot to work out what to track in GA; and i ended > > up trying to emulate the flurry stats in GA. Great pointer! Thanks. > > But using these as a guide, and aiming for a completely open source > > solution, you might like to consider using http calls to a server that > > accepts call to all urls (and returns a empty 200 response), then use a web > > log analysis tool such as awstats to get nice rollup of your transactional > > data. Of course this won't work for offline or semi-connected apps, but a > > little work with a local database (like flurry and GA use) could over come > > this. with this approach you can use a user-agent string to communicate > > info about the device and app version, and use url's to track particular > > events. as an advantage you get some session duration info and unique usage > > interpretation, and geoip lookup. Yes, it's the same thing I've made with > > blueMarine that just sends me a short ping when it starts. Indeed, the > > capability of having more complex analytics such as those GA (and Flurry) > > provides is something that I didn't think of and it's really great > > considering how important is to second user's wishes in such user oriented > > apps. BTW, it was a great lesson to me to try blueBill Mobile on the field. > > The previous version (JavaFX Mobile based) was tested with my mind more as > > an engineer wanting to check how JavaFX works; on the other hand I've > > started using in my real life the Android version and > > Fabrizio-the-birdwatcher had a lot of things to complain with > > Fabrizio-the-engineer in version 0.1.0. I guess I should blog about that. --Fabrizio Giudici, Ph.D. - Java Architect, Project ManagerTidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere."weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/blogfabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it - mobile: +39 348.150.6941 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
