Releasing a mobile app to the market is just the beginning of your growth journey! To expand your audience and keep users engaged, it's crucial to optimize both your product and marketing strategy based on usage data and insights from your users. That's where Google Analytics and Median’s Firebase Analytics Plugin comes in.
By using this plugin, you gain access to native app analytics such as app start and app usage data. These app-level events are not available when using Google Analytics for websites. You can also track analytics for specific users and trigger e-commerce specific events such as “add to cart”. This detailed information on user behavior in your iOS and Android apps will help you make better decisions about your product and optimize marketing.
Also, custom audience segmentation based on device data and user behavior provides you with a pool of valuable metrics that you can use for personalized notifications, A/B tests, and Google Ads remarketing, among other things.
Firebase Analytics integrates seamlessly with other Google platforms such as Data Studio, and AdMob as well as dozens of other ad networks. Use the Google Analytics platform to help create more engaging experiences for your app users, implement a data-driven marketing strategy, and ultimately boost your app’s engagement and monetization revenue.
Comprehensive real-time analytics:
Understand user behavior and view live usage data with real-time reporting on events including native app events.
Segmentation and optimization:
Define custom audiences based on device data and user behavior and use the insights to optimize your app and marketing strategies.
Easy and powerful integrations:
Firebase Analytics integrates seamlessly with other Google platforms like Data Studio and AdMob.
Refer to the documentation for steps to add Firebase to Android and iOS. Follow steps 1 through 3 to set up a project in the Firebase Console. At a high level, you must provide your Package Name or iOS Bundle ID to then generate a GoogleService-Info.plist file for iOS and a google-services.json file for Android. (If you are only deploying to one platform, you only need to follow the instructions that are applicable.)
In Step 3, instead of adding the Google services files to your app locally, you need to upload the file directly to your app on the Build tab of the Median App Studio.
Firebase Analytics provides reporting on all of the metrics that you’d expect in an app analytics tool (such as average revenue per user [ARPU]), active users, retention reports, event counts, and more), combined with user properties like device type, app version, and OS version to give you insight into how users interact with your app.
Firebase Analytics provides valuable insights into user behavior, allowing you to identify areas for improvement and optimize your app's performance. Armed with these insights, you can make data-driven decisions to enhance your app's user experience, streamline navigation, and improve overall performance.
Firebase Analytics is designed with user privacy and data security in mind. It follows Google's strict privacy policies and adheres to industry-standard best practices. Firebase Analytics collects data anonymously and does not identify individual users unless you explicitly configure it to do so.
By default, Firebase tracks common app events including app start, activities viewed, and app usage. However, with our plugin you will have the option to use the Median JavaScript Bridge to log additional events through your app.