Google Analytics won't track a view on iOS?

Question

I've added the newest Google Analytics SDK to my iOS application (version 2.0 beta 4). I did the same as the guide says and added this code to app delegate:

// Optional: automatically send uncaught exceptions to Google Analytics.
[GAI sharedInstance].trackUncaughtExceptions = YES;
// Optional: set Google Analytics dispatch interval to e.g. 20 seconds.
[GAI sharedInstance].dispatchInterval = 20;
// Optional: set debug to YES for extra debugging information.
[GAI sharedInstance].debug = YES;
// Create tracker instance.
self.tracker = [[GAI sharedInstance] trackerWithTrackingId:@"UA-TRACKINGID-2"];//UA-33873963-13 - My testing google analytics trackingId

[self.tracker setSessionStart:YES];
[self.tracker setSessionTimeout:60];

Now, on each view I've added this:

self.trackedViewName = @"Main Menu Screen";

Everything works fine, but for some reason 3 out of the 20 screens is not sending themselves to Google and I don't have a clue why. I've searched all over the net, but no one has came across this issue. I figured that if someone familiar with this issue, it's on stack-overflow.

Please help me. Thanks!

Answer 1

I had the same problem some time ago. I bet that you don't call the following methods in your overrides:

1. [super viewDidLoad] in your -(void)viewDidLoad override
2. [super viewDidAppear:animated] in your -(void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated override
3. [super viewDidUnload] in your -(void)viewDidUnload override
4. ... (take care of all the other methods that you are overriding from GAITrackedViewController

Concretely, your methods should look like the following:

-(void)viewDidLoad
{
  // call this at the beginning of the overridden methods
  self.screenName = @"Some Name"; 
  [super viewDidLoad];

  // your remaining code here
}

-(void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
  [super viewDidAppear:animated];

  // your remaining code here
}

The most important methods are viewDidLoad and viewDidAppear: since especially for real time tracking the viewDidAppear: shows that this view is currently visible.

EDIT: Since version 3.0 of the Google Analytics SDK the screenName property should be set before calling the viewDidLoad method of super.

Answer 2

I am using version 3.02 and encountered the same problem. The following fixed my problem:

-(void) viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
   self.screenName = @"My Screen"; // set screenName prior to calling super
   [super viewDidAppear:animated];

   ...
}

You definitely want to to call super because it triggers sending the ga data. It appears to me that the screenName needs to be set prior to it.