Analytics for Adobe AIR applications | App Analytics

Hi all we have posted a possible release candidate on our bleeding edge servers for you all to have a play with. There were a lot of behind the scenes changes but one feature that you will be able to see is the new spark graphs on the overview page.

This should help you make more sense of what the overview numbers and litterly at a galnce get a feel for what is happeing with your applicaion.

Enjoy.

As you may have seen on our support forums there heave been a few bugs found in App Analytics. A big thanks to finding most of these goes out to Brady White from http://www.notesync.com/, which by the way is a sweet App that you should take a look at.

From these errors that cropped we had to tweek the App Analytics swc to solve most of these bugs.

So as of now there is a new release candidate SWC in the downloads test section of the web interface. This shouldn’t go into live projects just yet. But please do use it in your test projects.

SWC Fix Details:

• Unique application miss track fixed
• App Analytics connection poll now set to every 30 second
• Very rare install initialization issue fixed
• Clear debug messages added for debug mode.

Also while I have you I might as well remind you of some of the major the features under development.

• People Management
  We are adding the ability to add your team to an account. This will allow you to collaborate more as a team instead of sharing the same details. Also there will be user privileges so you can control who can do what.
• Custom Types
  We here at App Analytics understand that no application is the same so we want to make App Analytics as flexible as possible. So we are going to allow you to create as many custom tracking types as you heart desires. We even going to create a short cut in the content area so you can get direct access to data.
• Geo Location
  Give you the ability to find out where in the world your application is being used. App Analytics currently tracking all that information it just inst visualized yet. So when it is up and running you will be able to see all the way back to when your app was first tracked by App Analytics.
  We think this will be of huge value to you for example you may find out from App Analytics that your application was used more in France than any where else, it would make sence to release a French language pack for  your app. This is information that has been previously unavailable  you that could make a huge impact.

We have just deployed some wicked functionality that will allow you to look deeper into your tracked “action” items.

In the “Content” section in the left hand nav, you can now click on a specific action and then apply filters on it such as OS, date, app version and many more, you can even apply a double filter to an action, such as by “app version” and “OS” for example.

We feel this level of detail and functionality will allow you to gain valuable never seen before insights into what and how users are interacting with your application.

We are excited about the possibilities of this new feature and what valuable information it can provide you guys, we hope you are stoked to.

We have opened back up the registration systems here on App Analytics. WOOT!

So if you feel like giving App Analytics a spin click here to register. You will be up and running just a few minutes.

I strongly suggest that you upgrade your App Analytics to 0.30.0 has we have been through some major changes and can no longer support the old system.

You you will need to change the imports and tracking calls in you app to match the new swc.

The old system will be completely removed by the end of May. This means any apps with the older tracking versions will cease to be tracked maybe even before then.

To go with the upgrade we also have a shiny new web interface to go with it located here: http://my.appanalyticshq.com/ – this is also where you download the new files from.

New registrations are still disabled at this stage as I am still making tweeks to the system.

Thanks Paul

In my previous post I mentioned that the new system was missing some features. Well I have just implemented functionality on the bleeding edge servers that now allows you to edit your application details…. Fun Huh….

So as you all know I have been hard at work over the last 3-4 months creating and deploying a completely new infrastructure for App Analytics. Well I’m happy to announce that the code base is in a state where I can release it into the bleeding edge servers. The bleeding edge servers are located here: http://bleed.appanalyticshq.com/

App Analytics is now sitting on a completely scalable cluster infrastructure including having  access directly to over 20 databases to cope with the vast data reads and writes an application of this nature performs. In another post I will go into more detail of why and how I achieved this.

In the mean time the bleeding edge servers are here to allow you to play with the system and see how it performs.

New SWC

There is a new SWC to go with the new system, if you want to see real-time tracking as per the old system you will need to download the new swc and update the linkages, e.g AirAnalytics is now AppAnalytics, all other syntax is the same. You can get the new swc from http://bleed.appanalyticshq.com/index.php/downloads

New Web Interface

When you log  into the bleeding edge web interface your application tracking data set maybe incomplete…. don’t stress App Analytics still has all your data it just hasn’t completely migrated to the new system. The data migration is a continual process and will be for some time yet.

From a interface point of view is looks exactly the same as the old interface and works in exactly the same minor with a few updates.

• Charts have been replaced and updated.
• When you set a date range it stays set as you navigate the site.
• Streamlined usage permissions
• Chat data optimization
• Map data optimization

But the web interface is incomplete and is missing the following features that are soon to follow.

• People Management
• Edit User Details
• Custom type additions
• Content drill-downs
• Open user registration
• Edit Application Details

As usual I really appreciate your feedback…. If you have any please let me know

Thanks Paul

I  had to Temporary remove the registration and new application functionality due to the fact that I’m are starting the data migration to the infrastructure. I  need to disable these to maintain data integrity while I undertake this mammoth task. Think of it at as completely replacing a car engine while driving down the motorway at 100 miles an hour….. you get some idea of the task I’m undertaking.

For all the current users, you will not need to change anything the tracking will continue as normal and no outages should occur.

If you a looking to register for App Analtyics please check back soon.

Thanks Paul

It would seem that on the domain migration something has happened to the usage page, (I doesn’t really work). Im looking into it now and will try and get a resolution on the situation.

Thanks Paul

Hey all its been a while since I posted an update so I thought I better fill you in on what we have been up to and whats just around the corner.

Over the last month or so we have be working hard rewriting the core of the app, this is due to two main reasons 1. Some huge leanings have been made over the process of the open beta, 2. Future plans and features for Air Analytics. We have been forced to rethink the almost all the internal processes of Air Analytics but the app will be more stable and future proof because of it.

We hope to have the first cut of the new system on the bleeding edge servers in a few weeks, once we are happy with that the roll-out to production will be the same day that we go to open beta….. yes I said it and I’ll say it again we will roll-out to an open beta with the release of our new core…… BOOM !

We are excited and hope you will be too.

Thanks