Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
Analytics
Analytics allows developers to get an insight into how people are using their application, as
well as how many people are using it and where these people are from. Analytics allows us
to monitor a number of stats regarding the use of an application, allowing us to improve the
application if we find something wrong.
Setting up analytics for a game is a simple process and starts out much the same as setting
up advertisements. For this example, we will use Google Analytics.
To start with, we need a Google account to link our Analytics account to. It is advised to
use the same account as we did for AdMob so things are organized and easy to remember.
We should see a fairly simple web page with information regarding Google's Analytics ser-
vice. We already know what the service does, so most of this isn't important. Click on the
button on the top-right corner of the page that says
create an account
. If you already have
an account, simply
Sign in
at this point:
After this, click on
create an account
and follow the on screen instructions to finish the ac-
count creation process.
Once signed in, you should see an empty tree structure. This is where our apps will be dis-
played and will allow us to view our app's data and stats. We need to create a new app list-
ing so we can generate our app key.
To do this, go to the
Admin
tab at the top of the page:
