Question

Is it possible to dispatch (send) events manually by calling [[GANTracker sharedTracker] dispatch] even though GANTracker was instantiated with dispatchPeriod set to e.g. 10 seconds?

My understanding of Google Analytics iOS framework is that upon calling trackEvent:action:label:value:withError: method the event is not actually sent, but rather queued internally in GANTracker which will send it when dispatchPeriod expires. In other words, GANTracker collects events, page views etc. and will send them in burst every X seconds as per positive value of dispatchPeriod. Am I right?

Now, the documentation says that in order to manually dispatch (send) events to server, I need to instantiate GANTracker with dispatchPeriod set to -1. Is it really necessary? Can’t I have best of both worlds? I thought calling [[GANTracker sharedTracker] dispatch] will send events regardless of dispatch period…

edit: I know, I could test it, but 24hrs delay period for data propagation is a bit long…

Answer 1

Answering my own question, maybe someone will find it useful:

• yes, it is possible to use dispatch when tracker is started with dispatchPeriod > 0.
• I’ve tested it and GA events dispatched that way are visible in GA.