Question

I have made an app using jQuery mobile and phoneGap, and read its good to put Google Analytics on there. I just a little confused because most of the app (pages etc… ) runs from the index.html file on the phone. The only time the app communicates with the server is when it logs a user in and they do ajax requests to retrieve or put data to a database.

Can I still use the analytics package here? Or is the whole point of it to be used with an app where all the DOM etc is stored online?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can probably use the event tracking feature of Google Analytics to help you out here:
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/eventTrackerGuide

You basically just fire a js function and pass in descriptive strings and category I think for each of the interactions you want to track / report on:

_trackEvent(category, action, opt_label, opt_value, opt_noninteraction)

Hope that helps