I want to integrate analytics into my iOS app to collect statistics about my users.
So far I found these two services:
http://www.localytics.com
http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/mobile/analytics/docs/iphone/
I want a library that's easy to implement. Are there any more out there and what is your experience? What can you recommend?
I've used Flurry in several apps. Quite happy with it. Once the initial setup is done, it's quite easy to log and record metrics about pretty much anything within your app.
You can try heatma.ps to get insides on how people iteract with your applications.
Check out this article, I think it's very useful:
http://www.apptamin.com/blog/app-analytics-tools/
I have found UXCam very useful. It has very easy integration steps and provides user and mobile data you need. It lets you watch playback videos of users using your app and has rule based recording and analytics to filter out unusual session.
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It's the first time I post a question in a blog, but it seems to me this is the best resource on the web for that.
I'm looking for a way to implement audio fingerprinting in an application for iPhone. I had a look at the lastfm fingerprinter, being that I already use other lstfm api calls, but porting it to the iphone seems to be a mess and I'm quiet sure that it would be highly inefficient.
Should I give the search for now as I am looking for a free service ,I'm a young private developer and don't have sufficient economic resources for a payed service. This is also the reason for which I cannot install the library on my web server and run it remotely, sending just the audio data to it. The hosting I rely on dosen't allow me to install third party applications...
Music Brainz seems to be a solution, but not quiet sure on how to obtain the fingerprint...
Any suggestions, hint, tips, links, search queries, anything?
Thanks in advance!
Christian
Check out Echoprint, an open source audio fingerprinting service provided by Echonest.
Here is the iOS example they provide on their echoprint github repo.
I want to develop a native universal app(i.e for iPhone and iPad) for my orgaization.I want to include some of the essential features of the organiztion website into my native app.For obvious reasons i cant store this huge data into iPhone itself.so data will be fetched from the server but application would be a native app.so are there any APIs available to do this?
I always find it's easier to start using sample code, and lucky for you Apple provides a lot of this. Here is the reference library for all kinds of goodies to learn off of and hack your way through: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/navigation/index.html#section=Resource%20Types&topic=Sample%20Code
A few noted ones... (I left out some advanced ones like BonjourWeb Reachability and AdvancedURLConnections but look at those once you gain a little more understanding)
URL Cache: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/samplecode/URLCache/Introduction/Intro.html
RSS Feed Parser: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/samplecode/SeismicXML/Introduction/Intro.html
MailComposer: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/samplecode/MailComposer/Introduction/Intro.html
Also, a couple books you should get to start your journey on iOS (these are two of the best and easy to understand IMO):
http://apress.com/book/view/9781430224594
http://apress.com/book/view/9781430225058
UIWebView will show any web page you point it to.
Maybe do a mixed approach with some stuff built right into the app, and the bigger or frequently changing parts load from the web.
You can use the UIWebView to access your organization's website from inside a native application...
While I agree that you may need to do your research first, the IPhone/Ipad SDK includes a very easy to use XML parser (NSXMLParser). I would suggest you devise a XML web service for retrieving the data from your company's servers and parse it on the ipad/iphone to the presentation you require.
Best of luck, i've found objective-c very rewarding/challenging.
HI all,
so we all know "pinch media" - the "spyware" software ;)
i'm searching for some really cool analytics softwares for my iphone application.
pinch media, is the one i know, it looks really great, but we all know, the reputation of this piece of software is very bad.
i'd like to know if i can use it, or if my app then is one of this spyware apps, for users (it isnt really, i know, but users might think it is, when i use this).
are there some alternatives? other programms, with the same good analysis?
I found admob and motally.com, but pinch media/Flurry is the best one atm.
Here is a good pdf that compares some of the main iPhone/iPod touch analytics providers
Try Google Analytics
Any analytics package which reports usage statistics back to a central server (Flurry, Google Analytics, etc.) will be considered "spyware" by some users, not just Pinch Media's offering. The really paranoid users will sniff data traffic out of your application and detect traffic from any service, no matter who provides it.
If you really care about those users who will be upset by this, give them the option to opt-out of data collection in your application's settings or when the application first starts.
If you are looking for more inside on your app, you should try heatma.ps. They let you view heatmaps for your app, and other interaction data.
Example heatmap:
I suggest you to take a look at Appsee
Appsee provides visual in-app analytics, including heatmaps, real user recording and user bahavior reprots. And you can create a free account there.
Flurry, Google Analytics, etc are central server to store the user's data.
If you want to build your private data center. you can visit this url
http://www.github.com/cobub
And the web site is: http://dev.cobub.com
to get the open source system (both server and client sides)
There are two kinds of analytics: business analytics and app performance analytics. Google Analtyics, Flurry etc are good for business analytics but app developers are mostly interested in knowing when app crashes, being able to capture app logs, impact of network speeds and carriers on performance of their apps. For app performance analytics, take a look at http://apigee.com/about/mobile-analytics . You not only get real time performance anlaytics but also ability to do some configuration changes in real time.
I would like to enable my iPhone app's data to sync with Google docs. How can this be done? What other sync'ing options do I have (another one I am aware of is EverNote Sync Server)?
try nutdb app for iphone. nutdb will sync every nutdb database with google docs hosted spreadsheet.
It is hard to give a specific answer without more detail, but Google does provide an API that allows some manipulation of document data. The httpriot library is a handy way to simplify access to REST structured web services like this.
I would like to access in real time to the data of the camera to get the hue of several points in order to guide the user (inform him when is the best moment to take the picture).
The application will be probably available on the appstore and then I want to just use allowed API. I've seen a lot of similar topics, some of them telling this is possible but none of them showing a solution.
Do you have any idea for this?
Thanks in advance :)
You need the undocumented UIGetScreenImage() function; an Apple representative recently stated their approval of the use thereof in the iPhone developer forums.