hsanet / qt-google-analytics

Qt5 classes for providing Google analytics usage in a Qt/QtQuick application

qt-google-analytics

Qt5 classes for providing google analytics usage in a Qt/QML application.

Building

Include qt-google-analytics.pri in your .pro file.

Using

Please make sure you have set your application information using QApplication::setApplicationName and QApplication::setApplicationVersion.

In C++:

GAnalytics tracker("UA-my-id");
tracker.sendScreenView("Main Screen");

In QtQuick:

Register the class on the C++ side using qmlRegisterType<GAnalytics>("analytics", 0, 1, "Tracker");

Tracker {
  id: tracker
  trackingID: "UA-my-id"
}

[...]
tracker.sendScreenView("Main Screen")

There is also an example application in the examples folder.

License

Copyright (c) 2014-2019, University of Applied Sciences Augsburg. All rights reserved. Distributed under the terms and conditions of the BSD License. See separate LICENSE.txt.

qt-google-analytics's Issues

Package qt-google-analytics to be used with qt-pods

See here for reference:
https://github.com/cybercatalyst/qt-pods

Queue time

Hi !

During queue enqueuing, you should also store "queue time". Ans when dequeuing compute delta time and add "qt" parameter.

(as described in https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/v1/parameters#qt )

Android device names are not shown in the webinterface

It seems the device names are not sent correctly as they are show as "android" on the google analytics website.

Instead it should name the devices like "LG Nexus 4".

Add a LICENSE file

Include device model in user agent string

The only way to tell the Google Analytics API which device model we have is to add the model to the user agent string.

See http://www.webapps-online.com/online-tools/user-agent-strings/dv/brand125521/samsung-galaxy-s4 for examples of this.

OS Detection warning in QT 5.11.1

The new QT 5.11.1 produces a warning for line 208 of ganalytics.cpp

QSysInfo::MacVersion version = QSysInfo::macVersion();
'MacVersion' is deprecated: Use QOperatingSystemVersion

Setup on GA

Hello,

Excellent example and thank you. However I do have issues testing this. I tried to run your example and as well as within my product.
Change the GA ID and ran the executable. I unfortunately am not sure how to verify the data that is being sent.
I do get a http 200 so the connection is made I think. So most of the work now is to see how the settings has to be made in GA.

Any help or suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Because the only options on GA is for web or for mobile app. I am working on a desktop application.

Fork, and some general improvements

I included your code here:
https://github.com/MultiMC/MultiMC5/tree/develop/libraries/ganalytics

Some changes I made include:

• Refactoring into more parts.
• Replacement of the Qt OS detection with something that works when you use an old Qt version (I did not care about iOS or Android, so they are not included).
• User agent strings the library generated did not work with GA at all - there was no OS version. So I just ripped that part out and started using custom dimensions... This is probably related to #6
• CMake build system.
• Support for IP anonymization (&aip=1)
• Application is responsible for generation and storage of client IDs
• Elimination of QSettings (My application is not using QSettings, I think it's bad form to force its use)

I can turn these into pull requests, but I'd rather ask first which of those changes would be interesting to you.

Send "session start" on first request

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/v1/parameters#sc

ga4 support

Starting July 1, 2023, Universal Analytics will no longer process new data in standard properties. Get started now, set up and migrate to Google Analytics 4 properties.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/ga4/verify-implementation?client_type=gtag