Read: 43 - Kinesis & Analytics

• The Analytics category enables you to collect analytics data for your App. The Analytics category comes with built-in support for Amazon Pinpoint and Amazon Kinesis (Kinesis support is currently only available in the Amplify JavaScript library).

Goal

• To setup and configure your application with Amplify Analytics and record an analytics event.

Prerequisites

• Install and configure Amplify CLI
• An Android application targeting Android API level 16 (Android 4.1) or above

Set up Analytics backend

• The CLI will prompt configuration options for the Analytics category such as Amazon Pinpoint resource name and analytics event settings.

• The Analytics category utilizes the Authentication category behind the scenes to authorize your app to send analytics events.

amplify add analytics

? Select an Analytics provider (Use arrow keys)
    `Amazon Pinpoint`
? Provide your pinpoint resource name:
    `yourPinpointResourceName`
? Apps need authorization to send analytics events. Do you want to allow guests and unauthenticated users to send analytics events? (we recommend you allow this when getting started)
    `Yes`

• To deploy your backend, run:

amplify push

Install Amplify Libraries

Add Analytics by adding these libraries into the dependencies block:

dependencies {
    // Add these lines in `dependencies`
    implementation 'com.amplifyframework:aws-analytics-pinpoint:1.24.0'
    implementation 'com.amplifyframework:aws-auth-cognito:1.24.0'
}

Initialize Amplify Analytics

• To initialize the Amplify Auth and Analytics categories you call 1. Amplify.addPlugin() method for each category. To complete initialization call 2. Amplify.configure().

Record events

• To record an event, create an AnalyticsEvent and call Amplify.Analytics.recordEvent()

amplify console analytics

amplify console analytics