Tracking an iOS App user

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All,

I would like to collect stats on what users are entering into my apps' search box so I created a web service that phones home with the search string they typed in along with the number of results it returned.

How can I relate these search stats to a specific device? I heard that Apple is going to disallow the access of user device ids:

//deprecated
[[UIDevice currentDevice] uniqueIdentifier]

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 19 '12 at 17:31

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You could use a third party for your analytics, instead of the web service. Try:

Flurry.com

is a good one.

Then you could use an app like Stats for Flurry to view your statistics:

Stats for Flurry

Yes, Apple has deprecated UDID - but they have provided another method to uniquely identify your users per app. You need to use:

CFUUIDCreate

answered Mar 19 '12 at 17:31

bandejapaisa

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Thanks,bandejapaisa. I will look at Flurry. What is the accepted method from Apple for identifying users? – Slinky Mar 19 '12 at 17:34

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 19 '12 at 18:06

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You could try Flurry, Google Analytics and TestFlight. If you choose one of those, it will save your efforts. Also, if you want to track bugs, BugSense will help you a lot.

answered Mar 19 '12 at 18:06

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Tracking an iOS App user

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