[ANN] Add telemetry to your Mac application with libAppTelemetry and Google Analytics
[ANN] Add telemetry to your Mac application with libAppTelemetry and Google Analytics
- Subject: [ANN] Add telemetry to your Mac application with libAppTelemetry and Google Analytics
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 10:37:43 +0200
Dear all,
After having used a couple of commercially available desktop software
telemetry (aka runtime analytics) solutions, I decided to create my own
library that would send my application's statistics directly to my Google
Analytics account.
The idea was for a zero or low-cost solution that would benefit from the
free Google Analytics platform and would allow the developers to see their
application's usage in the same way they look at their website traffic.
While I created this library to use it in my shareware programs, I am giving
it also to anyone interested.
Benefits:
- zero or almost zero cost
- (re)usage of the Google Analytics platform (most shareware
developers already have a free account with Google Analytics)
- small footprint
- no need to create separate threads for the library calls. The
library sends the requests asynchronously using the native functionality of
the underlying platform (MacOS in this case).
- compiled console demos to send test traffic to your Google
Analytics property
- ready source code examples in C++, Delphi/Pascal
- cross-platform (MacOS X + MS Windows)
- (a lot of) free support. The library is brand new, so I am here
to help you link it with your program. Feedback and improvement suggestions
are also welcome.
Links:
* Reporting examples on Google Analytics. You can see here what
figures you can expect from this telemetry library
https://www.starmessagesoftware.com/blog/google-analytics-reports-software-a
pplications
* Demos and compiled library on GitHub
https://github.com/starmessage/libAppTelemetry-sample-programs
* Library's website
https://www.starmessagesoftware.com/libapptelemetry
I would love to hear your feedback about it.
Kind regards
Mike
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