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

The year is 2019 the month November, Google keeps updating their APIs, "best" pratices and etc. without ANY good documentation or backward compatibility.

Here is what I did for my solution I used combination from two of the answers here.

Before I start IF you are reading this and you are having problem with cordova's google analytics/ firebase plugins JUST LEAVE THEM, when using webview you don't need any of the plugins.

1) First you have to go to the Google Analytics and create a new "Property" that will measure "Website" activity (who knows by the time you are reading this how those will be called but everything should be in the "Admin" part of the panel).

One of the questions that comes to mind here is "But it wants url, I don't have url I am making Cordova App"

And yes you are right, for the URL I used my app's API (Which means most likely any url you enter there will work)

2) Then Follow the instructions in the answer of @Louis Ameline which is this one With that you will have the script loaded in your app and ready for usage.

3) By this time now if you run your app in browser everything should be fine and you probably will be able to see in the "Live analytics" that there is 1 online user.

4) Now for this to work in Webview you should follow the answer of @Guillaume Gendre (the updated one) here. I just copy pasted the code (of course with my trackingId) and now when I build the application and run it on my Android it works as expected and the analytics are sent.

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I hope my solution actually helps someone and saves some time. Just leave all plugins because they lead to a deep hole of unsuccessful builds that just does not end because of version problems.

Also my App is React based but that should not matter at all, it should work with all frameworks and libraries because this is pure js. I suggest you use that kind of solution for this type of problems because it is not connected to any specific libraries.