Comments on: Developers – How Will You Leverage Analytics for Your BlackBerry 10 Games and Apps?

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[...] quite sure it will soon. Aside from BlackBerry’s native analytics tool, developers can use Localytics though it doesn’t have a native BB10 SDK, one of Localytics’ customers built their own BB10 [...]

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By: Tony D

Tony D — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:20:00 +0000

For iOS I’ve been using TestFlightapp.com which has been phenomenal for beta testing. It creates an easy solution to find solid testers and also track how long they have been playing, what parts give trouble, etc.. BB10 really needs something along those lines.

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By: Jason Schroeder

Jason Schroeder — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:38:00 +0000

Amen! I already received one patch from the Localytics folks today.

By: Jason Schroeder

Jason Schroeder — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:37:00 +0000

Hi Jared – Jason from Orangatame here. qlocalytics is an open source project, I look forward to any code contributions. The current project has a great suite of unit tests that make me confident that this can meet your needs in a commercial project.

As a side note, would you have felt more confident if I preserved my development history, instead of squashing it to just a few commits?

By: Jerome Carty

Jerome Carty — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:52:00 +0000

I’ve been looking for the perfect solution on BB10, as it seems the Analytics service is just not ready yet. In the meantime, I’ll need to piecemeal something together that’s effective in returning the results I need to improve my apps.

By: BrennanR

BrennanR — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:09:00 +0000

This is something I’ve been looking into a lot lately, it appears google analytics has a beta program for doing analytics with raw http requests. Short of that I see no solution. I use (and love) Flurry for a windows phone 7 app I released, so I would love to see a Flurry SDK. Right now I guess we’re stuck waiting for RIM. It’s a bad situation :/

By: Jared Thomson

Jared Thomson — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:08:00 +0000

I agree; I’d like to see more open source development on BB10 and in the mobile industry as a whole. Right now there isn’t enough unification between the platforms so developers like myself are reproducing a lot of code to tie into the platforms. This level of platform fragmentation has been squashed out for end-users in many industries but developers still have to deal with a lot of specifics we shouldn’t need to.

Some day I’d like to be able to use the same line of code to purchase a product from Apple, Rim, Amazon, Google, et-cetera.

By: Kyle McInnes

Kyle McInnes — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:34:00 +0000

Thanks Jared. It would be good to see some BlackBerry devs and possibly RIM folks contributing to the Localytics github project. With enough help, it could be something worth using.

By: Jared

Jared — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:17:00 +0000

As a BB10 developer I’ve been looking into an analytics solution on the platform for a while now – well before the BB10 tools were released to the public.

The weather report so-to-speak is that current gen solutions are lame. Developers on nearly every modern platform regardless of language have the ability to perform web requests to services like Google analytics; If the app is not well suited for that kind of data (such as many games) then struggling with the interface may leave you with a lack of insightful data and ultimately lost development dollars.

RIM is very aware of this limitation and has a planned solution for not only native developers but (seemingly) for each of their BB10 development platforms. It’s too early to say if it’s going to answer the questions that marketing and production teams need but we might be able to look at it’s sibling analytic solution on current gen blackberry java handsets.

( https://developer.blackberry.com/develop/platform_services/platform_analytics.html )

As for Localitics the service they provide seems to be useful to teams that need very real-time data. However at over $10k per year it would really need to be more powerful for me to consider. As their team admits quite openly, they don’t seem to love BB10 and are not focusing development dollars towards the platform. The open source project referenced here has only been around for a month with 4 code contributions by 1 author, so it really isn’t a solution I would be confident using in a commercial product.

By: Steven Kader

Steven Kader — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:03:00 +0000

All of JaredCo’s apps on BBOS use analytics to help understand growth in user base as well as which functions are used most. In Screen Grabber for example users BBM their screen grabs twice as often as email or tweet them.

We are going to be waiting for an official SDK from either RIM or Flurry which will support BB10. Hopefully it won’t be too far away because without we are just flying blind.