I have installed Firebase to my Android and iOS apps, I can check the stats on computer, but can't check them on my iphone Google analytics app. Is there any way or app where can I check the stats or do I need to install also Google analytics to my apps as well?
When you use Google Analytics for Firebase (formerly known as Firebase Analytics) the analytics results show up in the Firebase console. They do not (currently) show up in the Google Analytics dashboard.
You can have a Firebase view in GA : it's just a webview of your firebase Console in GA (so the FiB and GA data are not mixed at all).
Another solution is to use a GTM container to send and convert your FiB event into GA data.
Here is the documentation for this process :
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Our mobile app tracks app installs with AppsFlyer. We now need to track installs with Firebase. Our Firebase app links to Google Analytics. So, we are trying to integrate Appsflyer to GA and get AppsFlyer to send install events to GA automatically.
Following the link below, AppsFlyer requires GA's tracking_id as the Account_Id for the integration. As our GA property was linked from Firebase project, there isn't any tracking_id. Is there any other firebase id we can use for this?
https://support.appsflyer.com/hc/en-us/articles/207040616-Google-Analytics-integrations#intro
As you pointed out, Firebase for analytics doesn't included the GA ID that you need in order to integrate GA with AppsFlyer.
What you can do is integrate AppsFlyer with Firebase and GTM.
Note that this integration requires you to send installs to Firebase as in-app events. It doesn't really send installs to Firebase. The link I included takes you to a section in the article that explains how to do it.
I have been using Google Analytics version v4 in an Android mobile application for the past few years; I am planning to move to Firebase Analytics.
If I move to Firebase Analytics as is, will I loose all data which is present in Google Analytics.?
If not how do i get the all data which is present in Google Analytics to Firebase Analytics.?
This is not possible. Google Analytics for Firebase (GA4F) and Google Analytics (GA) are actually different platforms from each other.
As that said, you will not lose your data in the Google Analytics (GA) console. And, after integrating the Google Analytics for Firebase (GA4F) SDK in your app, the data will be uploaded to the Firebase server and it will be displayed in its console.
I’m currently working on an Android application that uses Google Analytics V4 for analysis. This has been working well for a couple of years now and the app reports are available in the dashboard in the Google Analytics interface.
I’m now migrating to Firebase SDK for analytics. I don’t want to lose the data I currently have in the Google Analytics interface.
As per the official documentation here https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/firebase/android/, if I use Firebase SDK for analytics, once the data is captured, it's available in a dashboard in both the Google Analytics interface and the Firebase console.
But I’m confused because I also read in another post that we have to integrate with Google Tag Manager to make data available in both Google Analytics interface and the Firebase console.
Android - Google tag Manager with Google Analytics and Firebase Analytics
My questions are:
1) If I switch to Firebase SDK, will my app reports be automatically available on both Google Analytics interface and Firebase console?
2) Do I need to integrate with Google Tag Manager to make data available on both interfaces?
3) If I send custom events using Firebase SDK as follows,
Bundle params = new Bundle();
params.putString(CATEGORY_KEY, "test");
params.putString(ACTION_KEY, event);
params.putString(LABEL_KEY, label);
params.putLong(VALUE_KEY, duration);
mAnalytics.logEvent(EVENT_KEY, params);
will it appear in the Google Analytics interface?
Thanks in advance
Yes, the Google Analytics for Firebase dashboard is in both the Google Analytics interface and the Firebase console.
You need to use GTM if you are sending events to an existing GA property - e.g. you want to see a single report with web and mobile.
Google Analytics for Firebase dashboard, which is in both interfaces.
may I ask you:
We would like to implement mobile app tracking in Google Analytics in both Android and iOS apps. We are using a standard guide with Firebase analytics and Google Tag Manager.
There is a list of libraries available at the Firebase website:
https://firebase.google.com/docs/android/setup
Which of them do we need to implement, if we want to track all standard things in Google Analytics, like screenviews, events.
com.google.firebase:firebase-core:10.2.1 Analytics
com.google.firebase:firebase-database:10.2.1 Realtime Database
com.google.firebase:firebase-storage:10.2.1 Storage
com.google.firebase:firebase-crash:10.2.1 Crash Reporting
com.google.firebase:firebase-auth:10.2.1 Authentication
com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:10.2.1 Cloud Messaging and Notifications
com.google.firebase:firebase-config:10.2.1 Remote Config
com.google.firebase:firebase-invites:10.2.1 Invites and Dynamic Links
com.google.firebase:firebase-ads:10.2.1 AdMob
com.google.firebase:firebase-appindexing:10.2.1 App Indexing
Thank you
Firebase Analytics and Google Analytics are two difference services.
If you want to implement Firebase Analytics then you add:
com.google.firebase:firebase-core:10.x.x
If you want to implement Google Analytics then you have to add:
compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-analytics:10.x.x'
For complete installation guide and latest version follow official guidelines
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/android/v4/
I'm not able to get UTM campaign tracking info in Firebase Analytics - Attribution - first_open. All my installs are shown as (direct)/(none).
I'm using both GA and Firebase Analytics and currently have a custom INSTALL_REFERRER receiver which calls CampaignTrackingReceiver.onReceive for GA. This works for GA and I can see all my campaigns.
The final merged manifest also does not have any other install referrer receiver. So obviously I'm probably missing a call to Firebase Analytics, but which one? Where is the documentation?
Update 1
This is the URL I'm using and it is tracked properly in GA.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=my.app.package&referrer=utm_source%3Dapp%26utm_medium%3Dshare
Documentation for GA Android SDK recommends above format.
Google Play Campaign Measurement allows you to see which campaigns and
traffic sources are sending users to download your app from the Google
Play Store. It is recommended that all developers implement Google
Play Store Campaign Measurement.
Update 2
Release notes for Firebase 9.6 seems to indicate this is fixed, but still not working as of Firebase 10.2.1
Added tracking for the source of app install referrals when an app with Analytics is installed from the Play Store.
Update 3
Finally working as of Firebase 11.0.2. No changes to the URL.
There are two URL builder tools : One for Google Analytics and one for Google Play. If you use the one for Google Analytics, UTM-based campaign tracking should work for you.