Problem dispatching with google mobile analytics for iphone

Question

I have integrated Google mobile analytics into my iphone app, but for some reason the page views and events are not dispatching.

I put this into my app delegate applicationDidFinishLaunching method (i've x'd out the UA string):

[[GANTracker sharedTracker] startTrackerWithAccountID:@"UA-xxxxxx-x" dispatchPeriod:10 delegate:self]; NSError *error; [[GANTracker sharedTracker] trackPageview:@"/home" withError:&error];

This is the delegate method:

- (void)trackerDispatchDidComplete:(GANTracker *)tracker eventsDispatched:(NSUInteger)eventsDispatched eventsFailedDispatch:(NSUInteger)eventsFailedDispatch { NSLog(@"Google Analytics Dispatch: succeeded:%i, failed:%i",eventsDispatched,eventsFailedDispatch); }

which prints out the message:

Google Analytics Dispatch: succeeded:0, failed:190

Did anyone else run into this problem?

Answer 1

It turns out all you have to do is delete the application and reinstall. Once you log one incorrect page view (ie one without a "/" at the beginning) nothing will upload to google analytics

Answer 2

The Google Analytics stop sending data when you try to send a non formatted "URL", if it is not initiated with the "/" or contain some specific chars, it will start only returning errors.

The best thing to do is, verify that you are placing the "/" on the beginning of you URL and before sending, format your URL to avoid any problem, by doing:

NSString* pageURLString = [pageURL stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];

Encoding it with NSASCIIStringEncoding, will format the URL properly. The same can be used when tracking an event.