Firebase Analytics

@joinflux/firebase-analytics

Capacitor community plugin for native Firebase Analytics.

Maintainers

Maintainer	GitHub
Gustavo Horisch	gugahoi

Maintenance Status: Actively Maintained

Installation

Using npm:

npm install @joinflux/firebase-analytics

Using yarn:

yarn add @joinflux/firebase-analytics

Sync native files:

npx cap sync

On iOS, no further steps are needed.

On Android, register the plugin in your main activity:

import com.getcapacitor.community.firebaseanalytics.FirebaseAnalytics;

public class MainActivity extends BridgeActivity {

  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    // Initializes the Bridge
    this.init(
        savedInstanceState,
        new ArrayList<Class<? extends Plugin>>() {

          {
            // Additional plugins you've installed go here
            // Ex: add(TotallyAwesomePlugin.class);
            add(FirebaseAnalytics.class);
          }
        }
      );
  }
}

Configuration

No configuration is required for this plugin.

Supported methods

Name	Android	iOS	Web
setUserId	✅	✅	✅
setUserProperty	✅	✅	✅
getAppInstanceId	✅	✅	❌
setScreenName	✅	✅	❌
reset	✅	✅	✅
logEvent	✅	✅	✅
setCollectionEnabled	✅	✅	✅
setSessionTimeoutDuration	✅	✅	✅
enable	✅	✅	❌
disable	✅	✅	❌

Usage

// Must import the package once to make sure the web support initializes
import "@joinflux/firebase-analytics";

import { Plugins } from "@capacitor/core";

const { FirebaseAnalytics } = Plugins;
import { app } from "./utils/firebase";

/**
 * This must be done to start the plugin.
 */
FirebaseAnalytics.initializeFirebase(app);

/**
 * Platform: Web/Android/iOS
 * Sets the user ID property.
 * @param userId - unique identifier of a user
 * @returns void
 * https://firebase.google.com/docs/analytics/userid
 */
FirebaseAnalytics.setUserId({
  userId: "john_doe_123",
});

/**
 * Platform: Web/Android/iOS
 * Sets a user property to a given value.
 * @param userId - unique identifier of a user
 * @returns void
 * https://firebase.google.com/docs/analytics/user-properties
 */
FirebaseAnalytics.setUserProperty({
  name: "favorite_food",
  value: "pizza",
});

/**
 * Platform: Android/iOS
 * Retrieves the app instance id from the service.
 * @param none
 * @returns instanceId - individual instance id value
 * https://firebase.google.com/docs/analytics/user-properties
 */
FirebaseAnalytics.getAppInstanceId();

/**
 * Platform: Android/iOS
 * Sets the current screen name, which specifies the current visual context in your app.
 * @param screenName - name of the current screen to track
 *        nameOverride - name of the screen class to override
 * @returns instanceId - individual instance id value
 * https://firebase.google.com/docs/analytics/screenviews
 */
FirebaseAnalytics.setScreenName({
  screenName: "login",
  nameOverride: "LoginScreen",
});

/**
 * Platform: Web/Android/iOS
 * Clears all analytics data for this app from the device and resets the app instance id.
 * @param none
 * @returns void
 */
FirebaseAnalytics.reset();

/**
 * Platform: Web/Android/iOS
 * Logs an app event.
 * @param name - name of the event to log
 *        params - key/value pairs of properties (25 maximum per event)
 * @returns void
 */
FirebaseAnalytics.logEvent({
  name: "select_content",
  params: {
    content_type: "image",
    content_id: "P12453",
    items: [{ name: "Kittens" }],
  },
});

/**
 * Platform: Web/Android/iOS
 * Sets whether analytics collection is enabled for this app on this device.
 * @param name - enabled - boolean true/false
 * @returns void
 */
FirebaseAnalytics.setCollectionEnabled({
  enabled: false,
});

/**
 * Platform: Web/Android/iOS
 * Deprecated - use setCollectionEnabled() instead
 * Enable analytics collection for this app on this device.
 * @param none
 * @returns void
 */
FirebaseAnalytics.enable();

/**
 * Platform: Web/Android/iOS
 * Deprecated - use setCollectionEnabled() instead
 * Disable analytics collection for this app on this device.
 * @param none
 * @returns void
 */
FirebaseAnalytics.disable();

/**
 * Platform: Web/Android/iOS
 * Sets the duration of inactivity that terminates the current session.
 * @param duration - duration in seconds (default - 18000)
 * @returns void
 */
FirebaseAnalytics.setSessionTimeoutDuration({
  duration: 10000,
});

Setup

Navigate to the project settings page for your app on Firebase.

iOS

Download the GoogleService-Info.plist file. In Xcode right-click on the yellow folder named "App" and select the Add files to "App".

Tip: if you drag and drop your file to this location, Xcode may not be able to find it.

Android

Download the google-services.json file and copy it to android/app/ directory of your capacitor project.

iOS setup

• ionic start my-cap-app --capacitor
• cd my-cap-app
• npm install --save @joinflux/firebase-analytics
• mkdir www && touch www/index.html
• sudo gem install cocoapods (only once)
• npx cap add ios
• npx cap sync ios (every time you run npm install)
• npx cap open ios
• sign your app at xcode (general tab)
• add GoogleService-Info.plist to the app folder in xcode

Enable debug view

1. In Xcode, select Product > Scheme > Edit scheme
2. Select Run from the left menu
3. Select the Arguments tab
4. In the Arguments Passed On Launch section, add -FIRAnalyticsDebugEnabled

Tip: every time you change a native code you may need to clean up the cache (Product > Clean build folder) and then run the app again.

Android setup

• ionic start my-cap-app --capacitor
• cd my-cap-app
• npm install --save @joinflux/firebase-analytics
• mkdir www && touch www/index.html
• npx cap add android
• npx cap sync android (every time you run npm install)
• npx cap open android
• add google-services.json to your android/app folder
• [extra step] in android case we need to tell Capacitor to initialise the plugin:

on your MainActivity.java file add import com.getcapacitor.community.firebaseanalytics.FirebaseAnalytics; and then inside the init callback add(AnalyticsPlugin.class);

Now you should be set to go. Try to run your client using ionic cap run android --livereload --address=0.0.0.0.

Tip: every time you change a native code you may need to clean up the cache (Build > Clean Project | Build > Rebuild Project) and then run the app again.

Updating

For existing projects you can upgrade all capacitor related packages (including this plugin) with this single command

npx npm-upgrade '*capacitor*' && npm install

Migration

If you were previously using the capacitor-analytics package from npm

1. rename dep in package.json from capacitor-analytics to @joinflux/firebase-analytics
2. on android's MainActivity.java change the import path from io.stewan.capacitor.analytics.AnalyticsPlugin; to com.getcapacitor.community.firebaseanalytics.FirebaseAnalytics;
3. public api changes
   • instance() is now getAppInstanceId()
   • setScreen() is now setScreenName()
   • setUserID() is now setUserId()
   • setUserProp() us now setUserProperty()

Further info

• Android
• iOS
• Web