"I wonder now if maybe adding custom variables is not enough to trigger the dispatch... maybe it actually requires pageviews or events... however if that is the case, I'd consider it a bug."
Hi Brill. From what I could glean from the docs, custom vars are merely "appended" to a page view or click event. The custom vars do not trigger any data sent to analytics. The docs are unfortunately clear that custom vars accompany another request so I don't think you've found a bug, just a bad way of Google explaining what they are and how to use them. However, I'm not impressed by the custom vars anyway. I did want to replace three "click" events my app used to do on startup that logged the phone model, the android release and the app release version. I swapped these into custom vars and although I can see the info coming out in the analytics, it's very hard to get the information out easily. You have to create a custom report for each combination of page event and specific custom variable. I want to be able to click on a page event and just see the custom vars that came in with it - but that requires more effort. I'm thinking of moving over to Flurry as it looks like you can attach lots of "information" to an event which can be viewed for each individual event if need be. HTH. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
