Read: 39 - Kinesis

Getting started

• The Analytics category -> used to collect analytics data for your App.
• The Analytics category comes with built-in support for Amazon Pinpoint and Amazon Kinesis (Kinesis only available in the Amplify JavaScript library).

Goal

To setup and configure your application with Amplify Analytics and record an analytics event.

Prerequisites

• Install and configure Amplify CLI
• An Android application targeting Android API level 16 (Android 4.1) or above. project setup walkthrough

Set up Analytics backend

1. amplify add analytics

   ? Select an Analytics provider (Use arrow keys)
    `Amazon Pinpoint`
   ? Provide your pinpoint resource name:
    `yourPinpointResourceName`
   ? Apps need authorization to send analytics events. Do you want to allow guests and unauthenticated users to send analytics events? (we recommend you allow this when getting started)
    `Yes`
   

2. amplify push

Install Amplify Libraries

• Inside build.gradle (Module: app):

  dependencies {
    // Add these lines in `dependencies`
    implementation 'com.amplifyframework:aws-analytics-pinpoint:1.24.0'
    implementation 'com.amplifyframework:aws-auth-cognito:1.24.0'
  }
  

Initialize Amplify Analytics

• How the class should look like :

  public class MyAmplifyApp extends Application {
    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();
  
        try {
            // Add these lines to add the AWSCognitoAuthPlugin and AWSPinpointAnalyticsPlugin plugins
            Amplify.addPlugin(new AWSCognitoAuthPlugin());
            Amplify.addPlugin(new AWSPinpointAnalyticsPlugin(this));
            Amplify.configure(getApplicationContext());
  
            Log.i("MyAmplifyApp", "Initialized Amplify");
        } catch (AmplifyException error) {
            Log.e("MyAmplifyApp", "Could not initialize Amplify", error);
        }
    }
  }
  

Record events

AnalyticsEvent event = AnalyticsEvent.builder()
    .name("PasswordReset")
    .addProperty("Channel", "SMS")
    .addProperty("Successful", true)
    .addProperty("ProcessDuration", 792)
    .addProperty("UserAge", 120.3)
    .build();

Amplify.Analytics.recordEvent(event);

View Analytics console

amplify console analytics