Question

I’d like to be able to track the Version number of my application using Google Analytics Android SDK, and the Device Model name for people connecting to my application; What is the best way of achieving this?

I’m assuming that I might be able to do something like:

Device Model Name:

tracker.trackPageView(“/testApplicationHomeScreen/”+Build.MODEL);

Version Number:

tracker.trackPageView(“/testApplicationHomeScreen/”+packageInfo.versionName);

Will this work, and is this the best way of achieving this, or should I be using Events?

Answer 1

This is a bit late, but with the addition of Custom Variables to the sdk, you can “tag” your pageviews/events with metadata like “version” and Model”. A couple of links for easy reference:

Android Blog Post – Analytics For Android Apps

Google Analytics For Mobile – Using Custom Variables

This has the added advantage of letting you look at segments of your traffic, filtered by that metadata- For instance, you can look at all the pageviews/events which occurred on V2.1 of your software, instead of manually tracking down all the pageview URL’s that end in /v2.1.

This was added after your original question was asked (months later, in fact) so you’ll have to download an updated version of the sdk.