JGoogleAnalytics
JGoogleAnalytics is a Java library that allows you to easily collect usage statistics for applications via Google Analytics.
Features
- Easy to use (zero configuration)
- Failsafe: Does not break your application in case of an error (eg. no internet connection available)
- Customizable: Create custom analytics request by using annotations on pojos
- Full-Featured: Supports all Google Analytics Hit-Types:
- pageview
- appview
- event
- transaction
- item
- social
- exception
- timing
Installation
As long as this project has not been released (see Milestones), you have to build it by yourself. The only things you need are:
- a git client (to checkout sources ;)
- installed JDK >= 1.7
- a working Apache Maven installation
To build and install the library, simply clone the git repository and run:
mvn clean install
Example Usage
JGoogleAnalytics is designed to be full featured but still easy to use. Most settings have useful defaults - the only thing you have to provide is your Google Analytics tracking id.
To track a simple "event", you just need to code the following lines:
final Configuration configuration = new Configuration(TRACKING_ID);
final Collector collector = new Collector(configuration);
collector.collect(new Event("MyEventCategory", "MyEventAction"));Tracking a social network action:
collector.collect(new Social("Facebook", "like", "http://www.github.com"));Of course, you can add a lot of additional data to nearly every kind of HitType:
final Event event = new Event("ApplicationMenu", "MouseClicked").label("times").value(4);
event.with(new AppInfo("MyAppName").version("1.2"));
collector.collect(event);