Time for action – setting up Appcelerator Analytics

Perform the following steps to set up Appcelerator Analytics:

1. Ensure that the analytics setting is enabled in tiapp.xml. This setting controls Appcelerator Analytics; if it is set to false, no stats will be gathered.

   <analytics>true</analytics>

2. You will need to either deploy the app to the app store, or run the app on a device after it has been packaged for production (by compiling the app with the Distribute option). Stats are not sent to Appcelerator unless you run in this configuration.

What just happened?

Statistics will be gathered for your app when it is downloaded from the marketplace or app store. When your app is live, you will be able to view statistics like the ones shown in the following screenshot, which shows your users per country:

Or in a table form:

You can even drill down to city level to see how your app is doing in certain areas:

Catching custom events

If you wanted to record a custom event such as registering...