Understanding user behaviour

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  1. Vas Origin

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    Hi guys. Here's a simple tutorial on tracking your users' actions and hopefully trying to understand why they do what they do whenever they are using your apps. You will be able to track what people click, as well as some more detailed stats that Google Play dashboard does not offer you.

    For this tutorial, we will use Flurry SDK. Register for an account and download the SDK at www.flurry.com. It's free :)

    1. Follow the tutorial on how to implement Flurry into your app: http://support.flurry.com/index.php?title=Analytics/GettingStarted/Android
    Note, that it says to add code to each Activity. In our case, we only have the Settings activity and maybe the Splash activity. If you don't see onStart() and onStop() methods in those activities, just add them yourself.
    Adding this code will enable Flurry tracking.

    2. To get some more information, we can use something called Custom Events. Continue with the tutorial at the next page: http://support.flurry.com/index.php?title=Analytics/GettingStarted/Events/Android
    Adding the line FlurryAgent.logEvent("YOUR_TEXT"); will allow you to record these events in your Flurry dashboard. How can you use this? Well, for example, you can make it track if people click on your buttons. See what the user clicks when they enter the Splash activity. What kind of settings they play with whenever they are in the settings menu. You can set up various events throughout all of your activities and then observe what kind of paths the users take when they use your app. You can even attach these events to banner/interstitial clicks.

    3. Finally, make sure you add the app in your Flurry dashboard. Explore the dashboard and see what kind of stats Flurry gathers for you. Understanding the stats and your user behaviour is crucial to making a successful app.

    Good luck! :)
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  2. fatos LWC Major

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    Thanks...this can be very useful
  3. Joshua Seasoned Vet

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    Thanks Vas!

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