Android Implemeting Firebase Analytics For Recording User Engagement with Application

Shubham Agarwal

14 December 2016

Firebase Analytics is a free app measurement solution that provides insight on app usage and user engagement.

You can log the event firebase sdk default event and also custom event.

How Does it work?

1) CAPTURE LOG EVENTS
The Firebase SDK automatically captures a number of events and user properties and also allows you to define your own custom events to measure the things that uniquely matter to your business. Once the data is captured, it’s available in a dashboard through the Firebase console.

2) DISPLAY ON FIREBASE CONSOLE/DASHBOARD

This dashboard provides detailed insights about your data — from summary data such as active users and demographics, to more detailed data such as identifying your most purchased items.

How to integrate Firebase Analytics?

1) Add Analytics to your app

Add the dependency for Firebase Analytics to your app-level build.gradle file:

compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-core:9.8.0'

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compile 'com.google.firebase:firebase-core:9.8.0'

2) LOG events

First of all, we have created to separate class for logging Analytics event:

public class FirebaseAnalyticsImpl {


    private static FirebaseAnalytics mFirebaseAnalytics;

    public FirebaseAnalyticsImpl(Context context) {
        // Obtain the FirebaseAnalytics instance.
        mFirebaseAnalytics = FirebaseAnalytics.getInstance(context);
    }
    

    public static void logSignUpEvent(Context context, String customerId, String customerName) {
        if (mFirebaseAnalytics == null) {
// get instance of firebase analytics if it is not instantiated
            mFirebaseAnalytics = FirebaseAnalytics.getInstance(context);
        }
// Create a bundle data used to log the event
        Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
// Passing values for the default keys ITEM_ID and ITEM_NAME
        bundle.putString(FirebaseAnalytics.Param.ITEM_ID, customerId);
        bundle.putString(FirebaseAnalytics.Param.ITEM_NAME, customerName);
// Final logging of event using firebase analytics instance
        mFirebaseAnalytics.logEvent(FirebaseAnalytics.Event.SIGN_UP, bundle);
    }


}

public class FirebaseAnalyticsImpl {

private static FirebaseAnalytics mFirebaseAnalytics;

public FirebaseAnalyticsImpl(Context context) {

// Obtain the FirebaseAnalytics instance.

mFirebaseAnalytics = FirebaseAnalytics.getInstance(context);

}

public static void logSignUpEvent(Context context, String customerId, String customerName) {

if (mFirebaseAnalytics == null) {

// get instance of firebase analytics if it is not instantiated

mFirebaseAnalytics = FirebaseAnalytics.getInstance(context);

}

// Create a bundle data used to log the event

Bundle bundle = new Bundle();

// Passing values for the default keys ITEM_ID and ITEM_NAME

bundle.putString(FirebaseAnalytics.Param.ITEM_ID, customerId);

bundle.putString(FirebaseAnalytics.Param.ITEM_NAME, customerName);

// Final logging of event using firebase analytics instance

mFirebaseAnalytics.logEvent(FirebaseAnalytics.Event.SIGN_UP, bundle);

}

We can call the static method to perform logging events.

 FirebaseAnalyticsImpl.logLoginEvent(this, customerId, customerName);

1	FirebaseAnalyticsImpl.logLoginEvent(this, customerId, customerName);

Finally you can check the log event (However you have to wait for a day for first new log event to start displaying data) in the Analytics events dashboard.

That’s all folks!!

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REFERENCES:

https://github.com/firebase/quickstart-android/tree/master/analytics

https://firebase.google.com/docs/analytics/

https://firebase.google.com/docs/analytics/android/start/