Category: Firebase

Martech SDKs : Part 3 : Firebase In-App Messaging

Post author By gil
Post date March 7, 2020
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Let’s get some in-app messaging going!

Note: This series is just the technology enablement; I plan to cover the strategy as interest in this blog grows, including the why and the when of using these things.

Things To Gather

CocoaPods
A good text editor like Sublime Text.
A terminal/emulator
The latest Firebase branch of the sample app (or your own app) plus your own GoogleService-Info.plist file
- see the previous post to catch up

Adding In-App Messaging

After you pull the most recent version of the app (or any app with Firebase already), we just need to add one more podfile. You should know the drill by now. 😁

open podfile

Tags CocoaPods, digital marketing, firebase, martech, sdk, swift, xcode

Crashlytics Firebase Martech SDKs

Martech SDKs : Part 2 : Firebase Crashlytics

Post author By gil
Post date February 28, 2020
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Quickly: Crashlytics helps manage crashes and issues with builds in a pretty UI, and while some of this functionality exists in GA, this is considered the main crash reporting tool for Firebase.

Let’s jump in.

Things To Gather

CocoaPods
A good text editor. I use Sublime Text, but you can use Brackets, XCode, or even TextEdit if you like.
A terminal/emulator. I use the native Terminal.app
The Firebase branch of the sample app from our last post (or your own app) plus your own GoogleService-Info.plist file

Adding Crashlytics

This one is going to be super quick. Let’s open the podfile again.

Tags CocoaPods, Crashlytics, digital marketing, firebase, sdk, swift

Firebase Google Analytics Martech SDKs

Debugging Firebase

One quick thing you’ll want to enable while developing is the DebugView in Google Analytics. It is a live-ish stream of events from the device, and very useful to begin to understand how your application is understood by GA.

Head over to the docs for a thorough understanding, or just follow along here.

To enable it, you’ll need to pass this argument in XCode:

Tags debugview, firebase, google analytics, swift, xcode

Firebase Google Analytics Martech SDKs

Martech SDKs : Part 1 : Firebase & Google Analytics

Post author By gil
Post date February 14, 2020
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Things To Gather

CocoaPods
A good text editor. I use Sublime Text, but you can use Brackets, XCode, or even TextEdit if you like.
A terminal/emulator. I use the native Terminal.app
The sample app from our previous post (or your own app)
- Cheat Sheet: This post’s updated sample app if you like (plus your own GoogleService-Info.plist file)

Let’s start off by making sure we have a new Google Analytics property since it takes a bit for the data to show up when making a new property (maybe I’m just impatient). Then head on over to https://console.firebase.google.com/ and create a new project.

Tags CocoaPods, digital marketing, firebase, google analytics, sdk, swift