Impact Radius Event Tracker SDK for iOS

The Event Tracker provides basic to complex tracking of events for iOS applications. Once you have installed and integrated the iOS SDK into your project, you can track various kinds of events.

This document explains how to install the iOS SDK and demonstrates common use cases and their associated implementations.

1. Compatibility

This library is compatible with applications built for iOS 6.0 or later.

2. Install SDK

Install via Cocoapods

The pre-built library is publshed on cocoapods. Add the following block to your Podfile:

target 'my app' do
  pod 'ir-event-tracker', '1.5.0'
end

After run pod install, the sdk will be downloaded and installed.

Install Manually

Simply download the latest released zip from our relase page. Unzip and copy it into your project tree. Remember add the EventTracker/include to your project's header search path, and add libEventTracker.a in the Link Binary With Libraries setting.

3. Setup Event Tracker in Your App

Include the EventTracker.h header in your source code, only include Item.hwhen you need to submit item level data (will be explained later in this documentation).

#import <EventTracker.h>
#import <Item.h>

To initiate the EventTracker, add the following code in the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method:

EventTracker *tracker = [EventTracker sharedManager];
[tracker initializeWithAppId:@"Your app id"
                  accountSID:@"Your account sid from Impact Radius"
                  authorizationToken:@"YOUR authorization token from Impact Radius"];

Now that the EventTracker SDK has been successfully instantiated and you can start tracking events.

4. Set Debug Mode On/Off

Debug mode allows you to receive useful information using LogCat and enables debug functionality on the Impact Radius server.

To enable this mode, simply add this line to your AppDelegate's didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method:

[[EventTracker sharedManager] setDebug:YES];

It is vital for live applications to remove this line or comment it out as it will affect Impact Radius' ability to track your events accurately. Conversions that happen in debug mode are not processed by Impact Radius into reporting and are not payable; these conversions post only to the raw logs and do not go through any further processing.

5. Track Application Instaill/Update

The SDK relies on the developer to determine, via coding logic, whether a user is updating the application or installing it for the first time. One approach is to implement a static setting in an update prior to implementing the SDK. This way you are able to determine whether to call the trackInstall() or the trackUpdate() method.

if (newInstall) {
  [[EventTracker sharedManager] trackInstall];
}

if (update) {
  [[EventTracker sharedManager] trackUpdate];
}

6. Track Custom Event

Using EventTracker to track a custom event has never been easier. Simply add:

[[EventTracker sharedManager] trackEvent:@"My Custom Event"];

Examples of events would be: ad clicks, completed levels, menu across or any touch based events you can think of.

7. Track Money Events

Using the EventTracker for money-related events is as easy as overloading the trackEvent() method with an amount as a String.

[[EventTracker sharedManager] trackEvent:@”My Custom Event” amount:@”1.99”];

Examples of money events would be in-application purchases, shopping cart payments, etc.

8. Track Items

Event Tracker provides a class "Item" to easily track item level data points. Here is a glimpse of Item class:

@interface Item : NSObject

- (void) setAmount:(NSString *)amt;
- (void) setQuantity:(NSString *)qty;
- (void) setCategory:(NSString *)cat;
- (void) setSku:(NSString *)sku;
- (void) setRebate:(NSString *)rebate;
- (void) setName:(NSString *)name;
- (void) setPromoCodeDescription:(NSString *)pd;
- (void) setPromoCode:(NSString *)p;
- (void) setPrice:(NSString *)pr;
- (void) setMPN:(NSString *)ms;
- (void) setSubCategory:(NSString *)sc;
- (void) setDeliveryType:(NSString *)dt;
- (void) setDiscount:(NSString *)r;
- (void) setTotalDiscount:(NSString *)tr;
- (void) addCustomParam:(NSString*)key value:(NSString*)value;

@end

In order to start tracking multiple items, first instantiate an Event class from your instantiated EventTracker class. Once your Event class is instantiated you can create as many items as needed before submitting to the Impact Radius servers. Note that you can also pass in an unlimited number of Custom parameters with each item by calling addCustomParam method.

Below is a simple example of this in the context of a basic application. The code creates two separate items, leveraging the Item and NSMutableArray classes and submitted both to Impact Radius servers for tracking. A typical use case for this would be a mobile shopping cart application or an in-game store.

#import <EventTracker.h>
#import <Event.h>
#import <Item.h>

...

// Instantiate a new Event class via the EventTracker singleton variable 
Event *itemEvent = [[EventTracker sharedManager] newEvent];[itemEvent setOrderId:@"Multi Item Event"];
[itemEvent setAppVersion:@"3.6"];
NSMutableArray *itemArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];

Item *item1 = [[Item alloc] init];
[item1 setName:@"Red T-Shirt"];
[item1 setPrice:@"9.99"];
[item1 setQuantity:@"1"];
[item1 setRebate:@"4.00"];
[item1 addCustomParam:@"YourCustomParameter" value:@"custom1"];
[item1 addCustomParam:@"YourCustomParameter" value:@"custom2"]; // You can add unlimited custom metrics
[itemArray addObject:item1];

Item *item2 = [[Item alloc] init];
[item2 setName:@"Red Hat"];
[item2 setPrice:@"19.99"];
[item2 setQuantity:@"2"];
[item2 setRebate:@"5.00"];
[item2 addCustomParam:@"YourCustomParameter" value:@"custom1"];
[item2 addCustomParam:@"YourCustomParameter" value:@"custom2"]; // You can add unlimited custom metrics
[itemArray addObject:item2];

[[EventTracker sharedManager] submit:itemEvent withItemArray:itemArray];

To see a detailed example of using cocoapods to integrate with Event Tracker library, please check out our open-sourced demo app