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Is it possible to use Google Analytics API's to track Mac OSX applications? If not could any one suggest me an alternative for Google Analytics.
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Google Analytics does not use Apple's Location Services feature. Analytics derives general location data from users' anonymized IP addresses. In-app purchase and subscription events are measured via StoreKit. Event parameters include product ID, name, and price.
Luckily, Google Analytics has the ability to separate out desktop, mobile and tablet traffic so you can look into important statistics once analytics tracking is correctly setup.
Google Analytics is designed to work with web applications not for desktop apps. Although it might be possible to collect info about your application and send it to your Google Analytic account but the amount of work required to retrofit might be better spent, building your own Analytic solution.
A good starting point would be to create a simple web service, which collects information regarding clicks. Then rewrite your application to call that web service on every click within your application.
You would ideally want to store this information locally and submit it to the web service in batches. You would also want to design the application, so that if you ever shut down the web service, the application would still be able to operate.
UPDATE: As pointed out in the comments by Václav Slavík, they have added apps analytics for iOS/Android.
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