Xamarin Insights

Xamarin Insights is a product offered by Xamarin that provides both analytics and crash reporting in a single toolset. It is by far one of the best and most feature-rich tools on the market, and because it's made by Xamarin, it's very easy to use with apps built on the Xamarin platform. For the purposes of this book, we will leverage the Xamarin Insights tool to add analytics and crash reporting capabilities to our TripLog app. However, due to the loosely coupled nature we have implemented in our app, the concepts used in this chapter to use Xamarin Insights could be used for pretty much any other analytic or crash reporting tool that supports .NET.

Setting up Xamarin Insights

Using Xamarin Insights in your mobile app is pretty straightforward. You just need to include the Xamarin.Insights NuGet package in each of your projects and set your app up in the Xamarin Insights web-based dashboard at http://insights.xamarin.com/. When you set your app up, you will be given an API...