Recently Google play announced data section form to fill up collected or shared data. Firebase also added a blog regarding it. Now I am bit confused.
Case1 Suppose firebase authentication stores ip address or name which I don't store in my database What should I do. Do I need to add I am taking name or something like that.
Case2 I am using firestore and storage and all writes are off. Then also I need to add something like firebase agent and what is firebase user agent and in which data category it will be added
Case3 After adding data type like suppose email
Google play ask two options
Collected This data is transmitted off the users device, either to you or a third party this includes data that is processed empherally, or stored for longer
Shared This data is transmitted to a third party,
either on off the users device.
Which one I should select if I am using firebase. Unable to understand hard language.
Sry for bad English.
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This is a project I'm working on for use between people at my university.
The idea is simple, it's a website where people can submit anonymous comments to other people based on a unique identifier, which is just a random number. People sign up with their unique identifier and their phone number, which would be saved together. Other people hop on the website and submit a comment with the unique identifier, which is sent via SMS to the corresponding phone number.
Conceptually I feel like this should be easy, the website just searches a table for the identifier and then uses an SMS API to send a message to the associated phone number. Also dynamically adds new lines to the table as people register.
I am real new to web development (if you couldn't tell), but I'm not afraid of a little code so I'm figuring it out. My problem is I have no idea big-picture-wise what building blocks I need to connect together. I think I found a good service called Twilio for the SMS API. I think I need to pay for web hosting, but do I need to rent server time? It's a real simple operation but the data also needs somewhere to live. I want it to be a long-term installation so I don't want to host it myself.
I would be very grateful if someone could real quick make a shopping list of the components I need to make this happen, or just any other tips if you've got 'em
I'm working on implementing my own analytics system. One part of it consists of tracking where users originated from. I use UTM tags for this. Reading UTM tags from the query parameters is quite easy in Android, iOS and web. However, I also want to track app installs.
I want to be able to share URLs to the Play/App store with UTM tags and mark the user's first session in the app with those tags. Android has a great solution for this: pass the referrer query parameter containing the UTM tags to the Play Store URL and after installation, the UTM tags will be available. (source: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/android/v4/campaigns)
However, the App store doesn't support this kind of tracking. I'm trying to figure out what the industry standard is for tracking app installs. I've seen the following solution:
Share a URL to your own domain. (e.g. myredirectdomain.com?utm_campaign=test)
Save the client ip, screen resolution and UTM tags in a DB table if the client is an iOS device
Redirect the user to the App Store
Once the user installs the app, the app will send the client ip and screen resolution to your server which checks if those are recently added in the DB.
If so, the corresponding UTM tags are returned and the user's session will be marked with those.
Of course, this will most definitely result in some false positives. I've been trying to figure how other companies do this. I've stumbled upon Google Analytics' implementation which utilizes the iPhones IDFA (source: https://developers.google.com/analytics/solutions/ios-install-tracking). However, the IDFA doesn't seem to be available to the mobile browser.
Do you know what the industry standard is for tracking app install campaigns?
Short answer: there is no industry standard in attribution tracking for iOS. Just google the term "app attribution tracking" and see how many service providers show up. They all use some kind of device fingerprinting and call it their "secret sauce". I've used different services in parallel in the past and results were most of the time very different. (Localytics, Flurry, Tapstream)
The "official" recommended way from Apple is to use their own App Analytics attribution tracking. For that you add a provider token(pt=) and a campaign token (ct=) to your store links. You can get your provider token directly in iTunes Connect. You can nicely combine this with the App Store Affiliate program. The only downside is getting the information out of Apple's App Analytics/iTunes Connect. There are no official APIs to get your hands automatically on the raw data.
Sources:
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/user-acquisition-marketing/
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/app-analytics/
App Store Connect gives you the possibility to create Campaign Link that you can use to track Install. I can't remember when it was release but you can find it in :
App analysis -> Sources -> Campaigns -> Generate Campaign Link.
Of course, this is not a classic UTM to track it in Google Analytics, but it can help
There is a solution for IOS apps to track campaign via Google Analytics.
For IOS you do not need to add UTM parameter but you have to make URL as below:
http://click.google-analytics.com/redirect?
tid=UA-1234-1 // Google Analytics Tracking ID.
&idfa=BBA44F63-E469-42BA-833A-2AC550310CB3 // Identifier for Advertising (IDFA)
&aid=com.bundle.myapp // App ID.
&cs=network // Campaign source.
&cm=cpc // Campaign medium.
&cn=campaign_name // Campaign name.
&url=https%3A//itunes.apple.com/us/app/myApp/id123%3Fmt%3D8 // Redirect URL to iTunes.
For reference please view the link:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/solutions/ios-install-tracking
Is it possible to use Google maps for event reporting?
Here's what I want to do: a running program send some data to google server to update the "objects" on a map. The objects needs to change color and popup information.
Then, an user (preferably with login and password) view the google map updated in real time with the information sent by the program above.
Is it possible to do this?
Yes, it is possible to do that. Here is an example: http://www.phillywatersheds.org/what_were_doing/documents_and_data/live_data/csocast
This system takes data from a monitoring network, processes it and updates the markers on the map depending on the values of the data.
The only problem with your scenario is that the map must be publicly-accessible to use the Google Maps API. Otherwise, you have to pay to use the Google Maps Premier License.
I am new to webOS development. I have one app in the app store and in the next update to the app I would like to be able to identify the age of users, their location, how long they use the app, which features they use the most/least and then store that data in a database. How do I do this? Many thanks in advance for your help.
Well, that's a pretty big question. Here's an outline of what to do, with some notes.
First, you're probably not going to be able to get age unless you ask the user directly and they tell you. Also, you're only going to get location if the application is location-aware and the user permits you to collect that data (when you install a location-aware application, it asks the user if they're okay with the fact that the application will be able to get their location).
As for how long they use the app and which features they use, that's easier. Depending on the granularity you need/want to capture, you can just record time stamps when a user starts and stops using a particular feature, such as when scene activate and deactivate methods fire. As long as you store feature name and timestamp, that should give you what you're looking for.
Then comes to question of collection. However you store it in the app, you have a couple of choices for how to get it out of the app. Unless you can get your users to just email the data to you, probably the easiest thing to do would be to create a web app (possibly with no user facing output, since you're just using it to collect data) using something like Google App Engine that gives you a URL you can send a POST request to using an HTTP request. Depending on how you set it up, it could do the request every time you collect a timestamp (bad for battery use, though), just occasionally, or only when the app is doing cleanup (possibly a problem if you don't get the request off in time).
I'd recommend taking a look online at how people do this type of thing in iPhone apps to get a good sense of how to do this type of thing. If you hit problems getting particular things to work, you can of course come here to StackOverflow with specific coding questions.
When creating a service like Google Analytics or StatCounter, I want to do it a little bit different in the data storage part:
A user visits my client's website.
JS code or 1 pixel image is downloaded from my server.
Request sent to my server, where the data is processed.
Things like country, returning customer, bounce rate, etc are calculated.
Instead of storing this data in my server, I want to store it in the client's server.
The client is an individual or business who is using my "service" for web analytics of their website.
Assuming that they are prepared to create a db schema that I choose, what is the recommended way to send the data to them to store?
The only thing I can think of is, asking them to give me a URL in their server, to which I will POST a JSON string, which they can store or do whatever they want.
Apart from HTTP POST, are their any other choices I have to send the data to them?
You could store the data on your own server then provide a mechanism for the client to download it. This would save you the burden of entering and testing a different URL for each customer.
It would also mean that you would only need one SSL URL and authentication method for security. Otherwise you would need to make sure each customer has a working SSL and get your script to log onto each of them when it deposits the data.