Error configuring Google analytics for iOS app with GoogleService-Info.plist

Question

I followed this Google developer guide to add Google analytics to an iOS app using Cocoa Pods. I added the GoogleService-Info.plist and put the initialisation code in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions. The app builds fine, but then crashes at the point it tries to initialise GA. Specifically these lines of code:

NSError *configureError;
[[GGLContext sharedInstance] configureWithError:&configureError];
NSAssert(!configureError, @"Error configuring Google services: %@", configureError);

The assert statement is failing and the output in the console is:

*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', 
reason: 'Error configuring Google services: 
Error Domain=com.google.greenhouse Code=-200 "Unable to configure GGL."
{NSLocalizedFailureReason=Unable to parse supplied GoogleService-Info.plist. See log for details., 
NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=Check formatting and location of GoogleService-Info.plist., 
NSLocalizedDescription=Unable to configure GGL.}'

I can see this is due to the GoogleService-Info.plist file and after some investigation I found that even if I delete GoogleService-Info.plist I get the error, which leads me to believe that I had not added the file to the project correctly.

Here is a screenshot of what I checked when adding the file:

So I have made sure that it is added to all targets and that the file is in the root directory of the project, alongside the xcodeproj and xcworkspace files, as per the instructions on the Google developer guide.

I should also mention that this is a SpriteBuilder project, but I don't think that has anything to do with this. Also this was the first Cocoa Pod that I added, but all seems fine with that as the project builds and can find all the Google headers it needs.

Answer 1

I was also stuck with this strange piece of code. But you don't need it! Just remove configureWithError and all these things.

All you need is:

[[GAI sharedInstance] trackerWithTrackingId:@"UA-11111111-2"];
[GAI sharedInstance].trackUncaughtExceptions = YES;

Somewhere inside didFinishLaunchingWithOptions. (It's from the previous GA version, right?) So, that's it! Then, do anything you want in your app:

id<GAITracker> tracker = [[GAI sharedInstance] defaultTracker];
[tracker set:kGAIScreenName value:@"start screen"];
[tracker send:[[GAIDictionaryBuilder createScreenView] build]];

My Podfile looks like this:

source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git'

pod 'Google/Analytics', '~> 1.0.0'

It works!