Google Analytics 4 (GA4) - Analytics Data API - When will this be out of Alpha, Beta? - google-analytics-api

Based on the Analytics Data API Banner ("Keep in mind that these APIs are pre-release and subject to change. Code built using these APIs should not be pushed to production. While we will try to notify you of upcoming changes, you should expect to encounter breaking changes before the APIs are publicly released."), the APIs are pre-release and subject to change.
https://developers.google.com/analytics/trusted-testing/analytics-data
When is the Analytics Data API expected to be out of Alpha?
When is it expected to be out of Beta?
Is this timeline a few months, a few quarters, or will it take a year or more to stabilize and publish?
Followup question, if this is going to take some time to move out of Alpha / Beta, do you expect to allow "App+Web" upgrades to downgrade back to "Universal Analytics"?
I have also sent an email to the address in the documentation with no response.
Thanks!

Brie,
I don't believe there is a public timeline on the API release cycle, but we hope to move on to Beta fairly soon. As for your second question, it is not possible to downgrade GA4 (formely App+Web) properties back to "Universal Analytics", as they are fundamentally different.
Thanks,
Ilya
The Google Analytics Team

I imagine most developers are waiting until the official release of the API before incorporating it into their workflows. But I would recommend that we all spend some time testing the API and provide feedback to Google. That way we can point out any issues and suggest features that will be of value.
For example, I want to pull up to 50+ dimensions and metrics but the API limits runReport requests to 9 dimensions and 10 metrics. I doubt Google will budge on those quotas so I figured I'd run multiple queries and merge them programmatically. Unfortunately, that's not a viable approach since there is no universal key/column available to effectively join data across those queries.
However, if the Google Analytics session id were a dimension it could serve as that universal column. So I made an entry under the Google Analytics Issue tracker requesting just that (feel free to star Issue#: 188980721).
So get involved, the sooner we do and vocalize our needs (especially at this stage of development) the more likely the API will meet those goals.

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Google Fit Rest Api Step Counts inconsistent and different from Fit App

This seems to be a common enough problem that there are a lot of entries when one googles for help but nothing has helped me yet.
I am finding that the results provided by the REST API for estimated_steps are wildly different from those that appear in the device app.
I am running a fetch task for users via cron job on a PHP/Laravel app.
I'm using this https://developers.google.com/fit/scenarios/read-daily-step-total - estimated_steps to retrieve the step count.
Some days the data is correct. Some days its wildly different. For instance, on one given day, the REST API gives step count of 5661 while the app shows 11,108. Then there are six seven days when the stream is correct.
Has anyone faced this sort of behavior? I've tested for timezone differences, logged and analyzed the response json to see if i'm making some obvious mistake, but nope.
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Is it possible to connect my app to my QBO account using the intuit development server indefinitely?

I originally posted this question as an 'answer' to:
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but am reposting, because it is a question.
The original poster and I face a similar problem wanting to use the QBO API for an application designed for a single company. What would be the disadvantage of connecting my app to my QBO account using the intuit development server indefinitely, i.e., never take my app through the production qualification process?
Thank you.
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As we already mentioned we do not not support custom integrations at this time.
Even we wouldn’t recommend moving you to production as it would cost us $1k per year to security review it, and we would only recover about $60 per year in connection fees.
So, the disadvantage for you will be in terms of number of connections, limited support and your app vulnerability since it has not gone through the security review process.
Please read the policy docs mentioned here:
https://developer.intuit.com/docs/0025_quickbooksapi/0005_introduction_to_quickbooksapi/z_developer_policies_and_guidelines
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Is it possible to get stocktwits sentiment indicator for a ticker via API

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Also, the default rolling average for sentiment seems to be 7 days. Is there an option to change this. One obvious way of doing this is parsing the firehose and some partners probably do that. I don't care for all that data or parsing it, in the unlikely scenario where I can get access to that.
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How can I learn which devices/OS versions my iOS app is being run on?

I understand that apple no longer allows me to send "device data" to third-party services. As a result of this, Flurry and presumably every other analytics company no longer collects OS/hardware version data. However, this data is very valuable to anyone trying to target development toward the people who are actually using the apps.
I can imagine a few different ways to collect this data.
1) Send a custom event indicating the hardware/os version to Flurry. This, of course, is in direct violation of the agreement with Apple. However, I suspect plenty of people are doing this, and just not getting busted. Still, not an ideal solution. Even if Apple didn't notice that we were sending this data, I'd rather not have the possibility of the app getting pulled hanging over my head.
2) Use an analytics package which allows me to collect data on my own server. Localytics is one company which seems to offer this. However, I don't think they offer this with their free plan. Is anyone aware of any free (or cheap) analytics tools which will allow me to send data to my own server?
3) Roll my own solution. This could either be an entire replacement for Flurry, or I could continue to use flurry, but send only the device data to my own server. This is a little clunky. I'd much rather have all my analytics data in one place. And would much rather not have to deal with building my own tool if I don't have to
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Hi maybe "Testflight Live" could help you.
As far as I know Testflight is allowed by Apple.
https://testflightapp.com/sdk/live/
I've heard of people using UIWebViews to connect to a webpage with a counter. The counter is incremented each time a page is accessed, and the pages are separated by feature/UIView. This way the developer can tell which features get the most usage.
As far as device data, you most likely are looking at rolling your own tracking mechanism, probably going through a server like Google App Engine that's set up to receive your data.
I made this an answer so I could continue to check back, because I'd like to know some more info as well. I voted up your question and favorited it
Good luck, sir