Firebase Analytic for Phonegap/Cordova App

Question

I have developed fews apps using Phonegap/Cordova. I'd like to integrate Firebase Analytics instead of Google Analytics. Is it possible? Is there any Cordova Plugin for Firebase Analytics? Please explain.

Also I don't find web support for Firebase Analytics in the official documentation samples

Answer 1

Here is one firebase plugin for cordova (I'm the author)

https://github.com/arnesson/cordova-plugin-firebase

Answer 2

Wasted several hours on this, here is what I found:

Add app to firebase console

• Create a project
• Add an app, use the package name (com.x.y.app)

Installation:

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-firebase --save
cordova plugin add cordova-android-play-services-gradle-release --save  --variable PLAY_SERVICES_VERSION=16.+
cordova prepare && cordova compile

Code:

initializeAnalytics() {
    window.FirebasePlugin.setAnalyticsCollectionEnabled(true); // Enables analytics collection
    window.FirebasePlugin.setScreenName("Home");

    window.FirebasePlugin.logEvent("select_content", { content_type: "page_view", item_id: "home" });

    // window.FirebasePlugin.setUserId("user_id");
    // window.FirebasePlugin.setUserProperty("name", "value");
}

Solving the build error:
I had below error:

The library com.google.firebase:firebase-analytics-impl is being requested by various other libraries at [[15.0.2,15.0.2], [16.3.0,16.3.0]], but resolves to 16.3.0. Disable the plugin and check your dependencies tree using ./gradlew :app:dependencies.

The solution was since it is resolving at 16.3.0, I changed all PLAY_SERVICES_VERSION in the entire project

change all code:
        from        "PLAY_SERVICES_VERSION": "15.+"  
        to          "PLAY_SERVICES_VERSION": "16.+"  

But before above, I had done:

cordova platform rm android
cordova platform add android

But, be careful to have a copy of your platform directory, maybe you did some changes in that directory, though ideally, you shouldn't, but as a beginner, you will as many other solutions suggest you do it.

Upload the app:

With all integration done, upload the app to Play console.

Check your firebase console

After several hours waiting, after some downloads happened, it showed below screenshot.

Links:

https://github.com/arnesson/cordova-plugin-firebase
https://firebase.google.com/docs/
https://firebase.google.com/docs/samples/
https://firebase.google.com/docs/libraries/

Hope that helps.

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Update

I wrote the app in Cordova + Reactjs.

Now a days, it is better create in React Native Or Flutter

Answer 3

Another Cordova plugin, although this is only for Analytics (one: https://github.com/chemerisuk/cordova-plugin-firebase-analytics

To debug your events remember to properly configure your apps as described here.