Google Analytics for Firebase offers multiple ways to understand how users are engaging with your app. In this quickstart, we demonstrate how you can use Google Analytics for Firebase to log in-app events and set user properties.

Ready? Let's get started! 🚀

Clone this project and cd into the AnalyticsExample directory. Run pod install. This command will install all of the required cocoapods for this quickstart and generate a .xcworkspace project. Go ahead and open the AnalyticsExample.xcworkspace project.

Terminal commands to clone and open the project!

git clone https://github.com/firebase/quickstart-ios.git

cd analytics/

pod install --repo-update

open AnalyticsExample.xcworkspace

We will need to connect our quickstart with the Firebase Console. For an in depth explanation, you can read more about adding Firebase to your iOS Project.

Here's a summary of the steps!

1. Visit the Firebase Console and create a new app.

2. Add an iOS app to the project. Make sure the Bundle Identifier you set for this iOS App matches that of the one in this quickstart. This should be the same for all platforms.

3. Download the GoogleService-Info.plist when prompted.

4. Drag the downloaded GoogleService-Info.plist into the opened quickstart app. In Xcode, you can also add this file to the project by going to File → Add Files to 'AnalyticsExample' and selecting the downloaded .plist file. Be sure to add the .plist file to all targets.

5. At this point, you can build and run the quickstart! 🎉

When running the quickstart on macOS or macCatalyst, a prompt may be presented that requests keychain access. This occurs because these platforms do not use a sandboxed keychain and instead use the primary keychain. To dismiss the prompt, enter the requested password and select Always allow. Note: this prompt can be avoided entirely by signing your application.

Google Analytics for Firebase is a great way to log user related events or set user properties. This quickstart features a number of different UI controls that a user can interact with. Depending on the control, Google Analytics for Firebase is used to either set a user property or log an appropriate event.

Debug Logging

Sometimes it is helpful to view debug logging when working with Google Analytics for Firebase. This can easily be enabled in Xcode by specifying -FIRAnalyticsDebugEnabled as a runtime argument. Using Xcode's menu bar, navigate to Product → Scheme → Edit Scheme.... Using the vertical menu on the left, select the Run scheme. Then click Arguments and add -FIRAnalyticsDebugEnabled as an argument passed on launch. Done! ✓

Firebase Console DebugView

As you interact with the controls in the quickstart, analytics data will be sent to the Firebase Console. To view and interact with this stream, navigate to the project you set up for this quickstart on the Firebase Console. Select DebugView under the Analytics on the vertical menu on the left. From here, you can interact with the quickstart and see the related analytics data show up live on the Firebase Console.

Support

• Firebase Support

License

Copyright 2020 Google LLC

Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.