Can Flurry Analytics report the user's location by city on Android?

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Question: can Flurry Analytics report the user's location by city (or more detailed region) on Android?

I am wondering if anyone has any successful experience in reporting location data through the Flurry Analytics service for Android.

I am writing a healthcare app that will use location to provide access to local guidelines, and hence my users will feel justified in revealing their location.

I have carefully followed the API instructions here: http://support.flurry.com/index.php?title=Analytics/GettingStarted/Android

and have experimented with both fine and coarse location permissions:

android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"
android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION"

Despite this, the GeoLocation section of Flurry only reveals country location of use:

United Kingdom          127          100.0% 
Vatican City            0            0.0% 
Ukraine                 0            0.0% 
Switzerland             0            0.0% 
...
etc

Prior to adding the above permissions, the "Detailed Location" section was unavailable. After adding either one of the above permissions the "Detailed Location" section became available; but all city fields show "0; 0.0%":

York                    0            0.0% 
Wolverhampton           0            0.0% 
West Bromwich           0            0.0% 
Walsall                 0            0.0% 
...
etc

I have tested on the emulator, Samsung Galaxy S and HTC Wildfire handsets and I would be very interested to hear if others have had success in reporting city data, or if this is a limitation of the Flurry Analytics API?

Best wishes

Steven

Answer 1

Right, since this has popped up a few more times I've looked into it again and have found the (a?) solution!

It is possible to record user location as long as you use a real device, WITH a sim card OR wifi location enabled in settings.

I had wrongly assumed that fine location could be accessed by a device (in my case Samsung Galaxy S) without a sim card - after all GPS receivers do just that, but it seems that this was not so.

Sticking in a sim card or enabling wifi location did the trick.

Answer 2

It is possible to report user's location upto city level by configuring either of the following permissions in AndroidManifest.xml: android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION or android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION In case you are not able to set it, I recommend you to send across a mail to Flurry Support (support@flurry.com) with details of your implementation. (Disclaimer: I work in the Support team at Flurry)