Analytics

Installation and getting started with Analytics.

Installation

This module requires that the @react-native-firebase/app module is already setup and installed. To install the "app" module, view the Getting Started documentation.

# Install & setup the app module
yarn add @react-native-firebase/app

# Install the analytics module
yarn add @react-native-firebase/analytics

# If you're developing your app using iOS, run this command
cd ios/ && pod install

If you're using an older version of React Native without autolinking support, or wish to integrate into an existing project, you can follow the manual installation steps for iOS and Android.

What does it do

Analytics collects usage and behavior data for your app. Its two primary concerns are:

• Events: What is happening in your app, such as user actions, system events, or errors.
• User properties: Attributes you define to describe segments of your user base, such as language preference or geographic location.

Analytics automatically logs some events and user properties; you don't need to add any code to enable them. However, Analytics also allows you to log custom or predefined events within your app. How you can do this will be explained below.

Usage

Analytics offers a wealth of Predefined Events to track user behavior. Analytics also offers folks the ability to log Custom Events . If you're already familiar with Google Analytics, this method is equivalent to using the event command in gtag.js.

Custom Events

Below is an example showing how a custom event can be logged. Please be aware that primitive data types or arrays of primitive data types are logged in your Firebase Analytics console.

import react, { useEffect } from 'react';
import { View, Button } from 'react-native';
import analytics from '@react-native-firebase/analytics';

function App() {
  return (
    <View>
      <Button
        title="Add To Basket"
        onPress={() =>
          analytics().logEvent('basket', {
            id: 3745092,
            item: 'mens grey t-shirt',
            description: ['round neck', 'long sleeved'],
            size: 'L',
          })
        }
      />
    </View>
  );
}

Predefined Events

To help you get started, Analytics provides a number of event methods that are common among different types of apps, including retail and e-commerce, travel, and gaming apps. To learn more about these events and when to use them, browse the Events and properties articles in the Firebase Help Center.

Below is a sample of how to use one of the predefined methods the Analytics module provides for you:

import react, { useEffect } from 'react';
import { View, Button } from 'react-native';
import analytics from '@react-native-firebase/analytics';

function App() {
  return (
    <View>
      <Button
        title="Press me"
        // Logs in the firebase analytics console as "select_content" event
        // only accepts the two object properties which accept strings.
        onPress={() =>
          analytics().logSelectContent({
            content_type: 'clothing',
            item_id: 'abcd',
          })
        }
      />
    </View>
  );
}

For a full reference to predefined events and expected parameters, please check out the reference API.

Reserved Events

The Analytics package works out of the box, however a number of events are automatically reported to Firebase. These event names are called as 'Reserved Events'. Attempting to send any custom event using the logEvent method with any of the following event names will throw an error.

firebase.json

Disable Auto-Initialization

Analytics can be further configured to disable auto collection of Analytics data. This is useful for opt-in-first data flows, for example when dealing with GDPR compliance. This is possible by setting the below noted property on the firebase.json file at the root of your project directory.

// <project-root>/firebase.json
{
  "react-native": {
    "analytics_auto_collection_enabled": false
  }
}

To re-enable analytics (e.g. once you have the users consent), call the setAnalyticsCollectionEnabled method:

import { firebase } from '@react-native-firebase/analytics';
// ...
await firebase.analytics().setAnalyticsCollectionEnabled(true);