How to use Google Analytics with Phonegap without a plugin?

Question

I am making an app and I want to get analytics from the users. I tried to use the Phonegap Plugin, but I didn\'t have any luck trying to implement it.

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Answer 1

[edit] Google Analytics now works with localstorage in hybrid apps.

Google Analytics now have an options explained here to use LocalStorage instead of cookies and there is also a hack to make it work in webviews (file:// urls). So instead of using the code I suggested before, you can just do this :

// THIS IS FOR LOCALSTORAGE
var GA_LOCAL_STORAGE_KEY = 'ga:clientId';
ga('create', 'UA-XXXXX-Y', {
  'storage': 'none',
  'clientId': localStorage.getItem(GA_LOCAL_STORAGE_KEY)
});
ga(function(tracker) {
  localStorage.setItem(GA_LOCAL_STORAGE_KEY, tracker.get('clientId'));
});

// THIS IS FOR FILE URL SUPPORT
ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', function(){ /* noop */});

// And then as usual...
ga('send', 'pageview');

previous answer content :

The pokki solution suggested by Alex is working fine with a few adjustments to remove the need of Pokki.

I created a git project for this cleaned-up version here :

https://github.com/ggendre/GALocalStorage

Works great on android 4.1 and ios6, I will test more device very soon. Hope this helps ! :)