Disable auto-activity tracking in Firebase

Question

I'm wondering, are there any way to disable analytics auto activity tracking? I have view hierarchy based on fragments and there are few cases:

1. Activity that have one fragment always.
2. Activity that can have different fragments as root.
3. Activity with root fragment, that contains ViewPager with other fragments.

I use such a code in fragments from Firebase docs to track custom screens:

mFirebaseAnalytics.setCurrentScreen(getActivity(), "some_fragment_1", null);

In first case, I want to track only root fragment. In second case, I want to track only each fragment that becomes root. In third case, I want to track only each fragment that becomes visible in ViewPager.

And, the problem is, that I don't want to track Activities at all, but unfortunately, Firebase do it on its own - as a result of that, my statistics looks weird, like:

SomeActivity 50%

some_fragment_1 30%

some_fragment_2 20%

I dont't need activity in this statistics, because, fragment statistics already includes it.

So, is there any way to disable activity tracking?

Answer 1

Now it's possible with new API to manually track screens.

Can disable auto-tracking

On iOS, set FirebaseAutomaticScreenReportingEnabled to NO in your info.plist. On Android, set google_analytics_automatic_screen_reporting_enabled to false in your manifest.

Manual Tracking

iOS

override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
    super.viewDidAppear(animated)

    // After enough time has passed to make this screen view significant.
    Analytics.logEvent(AnalyticsEventScreenView, parameters: [
        AnalyticsParameterScreenName: screenName!,
        AnalyticsParameterScreenClass: screenClass!,
        MyAppAnalyticsParameterFitnessCategory: category!
    ])
}

Android

@Override
public void onResume() {
    super.onResume();

    // After enough time has passed to make this screen view significant.
    Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
    bundle.putString(FirebaseAnalytics.Param.SCREEN_NAME, screenName);
    bundle.putString(FirebaseAnalytics.Param.SCREEN_CLASS, screenClass);
    bundle.putString(MyAppAnalyticsConstants.Param.TOPIC, topic);
    mFirebaseAnalytics.logEvent(FirebaseAnalytics.Event.SCREEN_VIEW, bundle);
}

https://firebase.googleblog.com/2020/08/google-analytics-manual-screen-view.html