{"id":459,"date":"2013-05-06T19:07:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T08:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.quppa.net\/?p=459"},"modified":"2013-05-06T19:07:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T08:07:35","slug":"google-analytics-w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/06\/google-analytics-w\/","title":{"rendered":"Short: Google Analytics doesn&#039;t support Windows Phone apps &#8211; pretend your app is a website, instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using Google Analytics in a Windows Phone 7+ app is <a href=\"http:\/\/nuget.org\/packages\/MSAF.GoogleAnalytics\" title=\"Google Analytics for Windows Phone 7 and 8\">really simple<\/a>. There&#8217;s a small hurdle, however, in that Google Analytics doesn&#8217;t support Windows Phone, and if your property is configured as an &#8216;App&#8217;, you won&#8217;t be able to track any data. The solution is to configure your property as a &#8216;Web Site&#8217; when you create it. You&#8217;ll miss out on niceties like <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/analytics\/devguides\/collection\/ios\/v2\/screens\" title=\"Screen Tracking - iOS SDK\">screen tracking<\/a>, but it&#8217;s possible to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bauer-martin.com\/csharp\/windows-phone-7-track-pageviews-with-msaf-779.html\" title=\"Bauer Martin: Windows Phone 7: Track PageViews with MSAF\">use events to record similar data<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using Google Analytics in a Windows Phone 7+ app is really simple. There&#8217;s a small hurdle, however, in that Google Analytics doesn&#8217;t support Windows Phone, and if your property is configured as an &#8216;App&#8217;, you won&#8217;t be able to track any data. The solution is to configure your property as a &#8216;Web Site&#8217; when you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/2013\/05\/06\/google-analytics-w\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Short: Google Analytics doesn&#039;t support Windows Phone apps &#8211; pretend your app is a website, instead&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13,57,60,137,177,182,183],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","tag-analytics","tag-ga","tag-google-analytics","tag-statistics","tag-windows-phone","tag-wp7","tag-wp8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}