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Implementing Google Analytics in the Windows 8 Metro App

I would like to use Google Analytics tracking in a Windows 8 / Metro app.

No Windows SDK.

What would be the best way to do this, in your opinion?

Thank you best regards

Geoffroy

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Is this what you are looking for? Here is our team’s blog post on how we solve this problem: http://dreamteam-mobile.com/blog/2012/08/windows-8-metro-apps-google-analytics/

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MarkedUp Analytics for Windows 8 is another option for Windows 8 - it supports WinJS and WinRT and even works offline. He is currently free. (Disclaimer: I'm working on MarkedUp)

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Here is a good one that has many features and activities:

https://github.com/AttackPattern/CSharpAnalytics

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If you are creating a new application, you probably want to use the new Google Analytics SDK for Windows 8 and Windows Phone . Google recently posted a big update for GA and added all sorts of exciting features specifically for apps (against websites). Along with this change, they abandoned the old UTM protocol and now require a newer measurement protocol for all applications. AFAIK, this SDK is the only one that supports the new measurement protocol, thereby being the only one that works with the new features of the GA mobile application. Note: you can still use these other SDKs with existing GA properties or spoof GA, believing that the application is a website, providing a verified domain name.

Full disclosure: I wrote this SDK and created it for this very reason. It supports Win8 JS, Win8 Xaml, WP7 and WP8.

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Many people do not know that Microsoft provides the Telemetry SDK http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/windows/apps/hh967768 as a nuget extension.

You can try if GA is not a strong requirement.

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We ran into the same problem at Nascent, so an open source project was created for it.

Check out Google Analytics for WinRT : A fairly simple but powerful Google Analytics client library for Windows Store apps.

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Disclaimer: I am the author of Gappalytics

You should try Gappalytics to track code / user interface events, this is a very simple library that reveals the full potential of Google analytics,

It works better than the previously mentioned lib, because it can preserve the user's uniqueness in such a way that your data will not be distorted.

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