Comments on: Google launches Analytics for Android apps

By: Android and Me

Android and Me — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:56:48 +0000

[...] Analytics is heating up. Google launched their own Analytics for Android applications last week and today announced they had acquired AdMob. Flurry has also [...]

By: Merago

Merago — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:38:15 +0000

Very good point. This is a very useful tool for developers to have under their belt, but the last thing they want is for put people to be put off from installing their apps because of a misleading warning.

By: Justin Shapcott

Justin Shapcott — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:00:41 +0000

Most definitely. And it should be separate from the Full Internet permission so that developers can include it without having to ask for full internet access which, when we are talking about collecting data, is a scary permission to grant.

By: Tomas

Tomas — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:56:52 +0000

if google makes this a feature of the android SDK, it will definitely be required to add in the manifest.

By: Justin Shapcott

Justin Shapcott — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:52:52 +0000

Curiously, in the original announcement of the Android Market ( http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/08/android-market-user-driven-content.html ), Google had alluded to a detailed dashboard and analytics for Android developers. I guess that never happened.

By: Justin Shapcott

Justin Shapcott — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:50:15 +0000

The important thing here is that per the terms of this service, one MUST disclose that they may be collecting anonymous data. I am not sure if the other services also require this but I can tell you that I haven’t ever seen an app disclose it. I have, however, seen several instances of people incredibly upset to find out that Flurry (specifically, but I am sure the others too) was being included in apps without disclosure.

By: Taylor Wimberly

Taylor Wimberly — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:49:12 +0000

Now, they need a similar service for tracking stats on the Android Market.

By: Eric Weiss

Eric Weiss — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:46:52 +0000

Nice move, Google! This can only result in better apps.