I have FB analytics configured for iOS and android app. It does recognize iOS platform when viewing events correctly. But for android it only qualifies it as android about 30% of all.
Here's how those events are shown in FB analytics debugging screen: ('inne wartości' stands for 'other')
I wonder how FB does the recognition? By advertising id? Read docs through but didn't find info about this anywhere.
Here's a FB response that gets recognized as android: (obfuscated few details):
{
"req": {
"method": "POST",
"url": "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/000000000/activities",
"data": {
"advertiser_id": "2e9ab235-84c0-4b22-8421-xxxxxxxxxxxxx",
"advertiser_tracking_enabled": 1,
"application_tracking_enabled": 1,
"bundle_id": "com.myapp",
"bundle_short_version": "1.7.0",
"event": "CUSTOM_APP_EVENTS",
"custom_events": [
{
"_appVersion": "1.7.0",
"_eventName": "App Launched",
"_logTime": 1476295031,
"fb_currency": "USD"
}
]
},
"headers": {
"user-agent": "Segment.io/1.0",
"content-type": "application/json"
}
},
"header": {
"access-control-allow-origin": "*",
"pragma": "no-cache",
"cache-control": "private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate",
"facebook-api-version": "v2.6",
"expires": "Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT",
"content-type": "text/javascript; charset=UTF-8",
"x-fb-trace-id": "BH4kXNYDDL+",
"x-fb-rev": "2617769",
"x-fb-debug": "eNcBCpuFfVirTkclVvZ0WeYh60r+2tBIqg6lKPCrWNtGASVULq6jrVwQxqYulMUyCI3ZaBhZRQ64xdxdXOQg2w==",
"date": "Wed, 12 Oct 2016 17:57:24 GMT",
"connection": "close",
"content-length": "16"
},
"status": 200,
"text": "{\"success\":true}"
}
And this one is not recognized as android:
{
"req": {
"method": "POST",
"url": "https://graph.facebook.com/v2.6/000000000000/activities",
"data": {
"advertiser_id": "88697a4d-f658-41d3-84db-xxxxxxxxxx",
"advertiser_tracking_enabled": 1,
"application_tracking_enabled": 1,
"bundle_id": "com.myapp",
"bundle_short_version": "1.7.0",
"event": "CUSTOM_APP_EVENTS",
"custom_events": [
{
"_appVersion": "1.7.0",
"_eventName": "App Launched",
"_logTime": 1476206487,
"fb_currency": "USD"
}
]
},
"headers": {
"user-agent": "Segment.io/1.0",
"content-type": "application/json"
}
},
"header": {
"access-control-allow-origin": "*",
"pragma": "no-cache",
"cache-control": "private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate",
"facebook-api-version": "v2.6",
"expires": "Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT",
"content-type": "text/javascript; charset=UTF-8",
"x-fb-trace-id": "AqASb9qsUSx",
"x-fb-rev": "2613995",
"x-fb-debug": "aDLUDoC+7vmlVY28UsEtusYgzdkmxK8qVrn4gCo29ovLw9Us27Gh/Iy1163dfTDF5rKg/JWiv3xsfq3hugijlg==",
"date": "Tue, 11 Oct 2016 17:21:37 GMT",
"connection": "close",
"content-length": "16"
},
"status": 200,
"text": "{\"success\":true}"
}
I can't see any interesting changes that that would point to an android platform.
Update
As advised by Ramkumar, I tried posting events with FB sdk and it indeed worked. I'd really like to keep using segment, so keeping this as solution is not possible in my app. I wonder what's missing from the params that segment sends to FB. Is this because of session_id which is in there when using FB SDK but is absent in segment request? See gist with dump from adb logcat when using FB SDK
