Track App Store download source - download

Is there a way to track App Store download source ? Per example, if I post a link on the Facebook page of my app, can I know how many person downloaded my app from this link ?
Thanks for your answer.

Yes, you can track downloads from devices iOS8+ and tvOS2+ with campaign links from Apple's App Analytics: https://analytics.itunes.apple.com/
Choose your app, then go to "Sources" and create a new link with the link builder there.
It will look like this:
pt= is your unique provider token; ct= is your campaign name

Go to App Store Connect -> Analytics -> select the app -> Acquisition -> Campaigns.
Generate URL-s here with the + button.

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Google analytics does not show statistics and looks different

I created a new application and noticed that it was different from my first one.
I have 2 sites on the Magento 2 platform. I want to separately collect data about them.
I had previously created a store for analytics in which I could create views. There I took the Account Number starting with the UK and added it to the settings.
But now I am trying to create a new tracking application and I get a different type of application in which I cannot create views, what am I doing wrong?
How can I connect it?
When you create a new Property in Google Analytics you can find Universal Analytics type Property by clicking on Show advanced options:
So you can obtain and use its ID (UA-XXXXX-X).

Find URL for google play app before releasing it

I want to have a rate button for my app that will open up the google play store page of my app when clicked. The problem is I do not know the URL of my app on the Google Play Store since I have not released it yet. How can I find the URL?
I know this answer is bit late but your url would be:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=YOUR_PACKAGE_NAME
You can find the package name in AndroidMainfest.xml of your project.

How to integrate Google tag manager with Xamarin Android?

I want to integrate Google tag manager in Xamarin.
For iOS, there is a documentation on how to do so when consuming Google analytics SDK.
However, there is no documentation at all for Android integration.
Any suggestions?
I don't think you need any Xamarin documentation for using Tag Manager with Xamarin.
Tag manager comes with Google Play Services, so you just need the Xamarin component for Google Play Services:
https://components.xamarin.com/view/googleplayservices
The documentation for Tag manager is here:
https://developers.google.com/tag-manager/android/v4/
As #Andrei suggested, I used in Google play services, although the configuration was not so trivial..
I have created a sample project you can find here to demonstrate how to use Google tag manager in Android.
In short, after you install the SDK, you should call these lines in the your mainActivity class:
var tagmanager = TagManagerClass.GetInstance(this);
var pendingResult = _tagmanager.LoadContainerPreferNonDefault("GTM-XXXXXX",
Resource.Raw.gtm_analytics);
pendingResult.SetResultCallback(new TagMnagerResultCallback(), 2, TimeUnit.Seconds);
And after the callback has been called, you can fire your events like this:
_tagmanager.DataLayer.PushEvent("openScreen", DataLayer.MapOf("screenName", "testScreen"));
You might want to check my post. I explained how to do enhanced ecommerce and if you think could be valuable.
Summary is:
Add Google tag Manager component
Go to Google tag manager web admin, pick android code and go to latest version published. There you should see an option to download a binary file
Name binary as you want and place it inside Raw folder
In Setup or main android class, implement the basic wire up pointing to downloaded Binary in Raw file (This is key)
Create app view event as documentation display, in Tag Manager portal
add basic open screen tracking and watch real time in Google analytics. It takes few minutes to see the data, first time could take up to 24 hours depending on your account
Check my blog post for further details and let me know if still have questions and I will put together the full implementation.
Cheers

auto-filling website forms mac apps

I'm pretty new to the Mac SDK, but I can find my way around the basics easily enough. There is one thing I'm stumped on however: I am trying to make an app where it automatically goes into a webpage when it becomes available, e.g. for concert ticket sales and such. I have the app set up to accept the users' id and password, but how to I push that to the website and fill in the log in form?
Load the website into a WebView and use JavaScript to manipulate and submit the form:
- (NSString *)stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:(NSString *)script

getting google plus profile information to be shown for every user logging into my site

can this be done anyhow ? I want to show every user , his google profile info ,or at least , create a profile widget for him on his home page .
Also , is it be possible to get the number of profiles with the highest followers in google plus , periodically,so that I can showcase that in my website ?
Google doesn't have an official API for the Google Plus product yet. You can sign up for a list to get the info as soon as it's available here:
https://services.google.com/fb/forms/plusdevelopers/
There are several "unofficial" api libraries you can try to use, but they're not likely to work very well as google plus is in beta, and is likely to keep changing without supporting unofficial libraries
This answer is for the top users part of the question.
There are several unofficial projects are existing that can get information out of google+
Dotnet.GooglePlus is my own that is written in .NET, but there are java and PHP implementations as well.
The other option is to try scrape a site like http://socialstatistics.com/ for top users.

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