Ballast Analytics

Overview

Ballast's Analytics module automatically tracks Inputs sent to your ViewModels to send to your analytics SDK. Support for Firebase Analytics is supported out-of-the-box on Android.

Since v3.0.0, analytics tracking is now available in all targets, for use with other analytics trackers.

Usage

Ballast's Firebase Analytics integration provides automatic tracking of your Inputs to the Firebase Analytics dashboard. Firebase Analytics should be integrated in your app as normal, and then you need to add the ballast-firebase-analytics dependency and add the Interceptor to your ViewModel configuration. Note that the below example uses AndroidViewModel, but the FirebaseAnalyticsInterceptor will work just the same with any other Ballast ViewModel type (Repositories, BasicViewModel, etc.).

@HiltViewModel
class ExampleViewModel
@Inject
constructor() : AndroidViewModel<
        ExampleContract.Inputs,
        ExampleContract.Events,
        ExampleContract.State>(
    config = BallastViewModelConfiguration.Builder()
        .apply {
            // customized interceptor
            this += AnalyticsInterceptor(
                tracker = FirebaseAnalyticsTracker(Firebase.analytics),
                shouldTrackInput = { it.isAnnotatedWith<FirebaseAnalyticsTrackInput>() },
            )
            // helper function for setting up tracking with Firebase
            this += FirebaseAnalyticsInterceptor() // FirebaseAnalyticsInterceptor factory function, which returns AnalyticsInterceptor
        }
        .withViewModel(
            initialState = ExampleContract.State(),
            inputHandler = ExampleInputHandler(),
            name = "Example",
        )
        .build(),
)

While Crashlytics takes an opt-out approach to logging Inputs, Analytics is entirely opt-in. Most Inputs in your app probably aren't necessary to track, what you're mostly interested in is conversions. The FirebaseAnalyticsInterceptor will only track Inputs that are annotated with FirebaseAnalyticsTrackInput, and ignore the rest. Each Input will be logged using its .toString() value, so be sure to override .toString() for any inputs you want tracked to remove any sensitive info from them.

Installation

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

// for plain JVM or Android projects
dependencies {
    implementation("io.github.copper-leaf:ballast-analytics:4.0.0")
    implementation("io.github.copper-leaf:ballast-firebase-analytics:4.0.0")
}

// for multiplatform projects
kotlin {
    sourceSets {
        val commonMain by getting {
            dependencies {
                implementation("io.github.copper-leaf:ballast-analytics:4.0.0")
                implementation("io.github.copper-leaf:ballast-firebase-analytics:4.0.0")
            }
        }
    }
}