Complete an HTTP request while app closing

Asked Jun 18 '14 at 08:20

Active Jun 18 '14 at 08:32

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Currently I am working on a some kind of analytics sdk and we measure session lengths. But in WP when i send an http request inside PhoneApplicationService.Closing event handler, it is never completed even i await the asynchronuous operation.

I checked the Google Analytics implementation at https://www.codeplex.com/ but bumped into the comment // there is no way to get a deferral in WP so this will not actually happen until after we return to the app

So what to do to make that request complete? Or what is the perfect way to measure session lengths accurately and in realtime.

Thanks

edited Jun 18 '14 at 08:32

asked Jun 18 '14 at 08:20

mehmet6parmak

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Not sure I understand the question. How are you sending the request to Google Analytics? – Linda Lawton - DaImTo Jun 18 '14 at 08:31
I don't. The sdk here https://googleanalyticssdk.codeplex.com/team/view via measurement protocol. – mehmet6parmak Jun 18 '14 at 08:32
If you use the measurement protocol directly you could send it as a HTTP post from the app when its closing. I have never seen that SDK before. – Linda Lawton - DaImTo Jun 18 '14 at 08:35
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Assuming there is no way to do networking communication while the app is closing: You could save the session length in the Closing event handler to the isolated storage and send it to your backend once your app is started again. – Oliver Hanappi Jun 18 '14 at 08:38
then we say it is not possible to do it in realtime, right? We cannot know when would the user open the app next time and we would report the session timeout duration as the session length of the user. – mehmet6parmak Jun 18 '14 at 08:41
I would contact the guy that created the SDK, third party SDKs always have there limitations. – Linda Lawton - DaImTo Jun 18 '14 at 08:43
sent the question to him on twitter =) – mehmet6parmak Jun 18 '14 at 08:44

Complete an HTTP request while app closing

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