Piano Analytics SDK Android

About The Project

The Piano Analytics Android SDK allows you to collect audience measurement data for the Piano Analytics solution. It can be used with Android Java applications.

This SDK makes the implementation of Piano Analytics as simple as possible, while keeping all the flexibility of the solution. By using this small library in your applications, and using dedicated and documented methods, you will be able to send powerful events.

It also includes Privacy tagging methods that allow you a perfect management of your tagging depending on the regulation you refer to.

Getting Started

1. Add SDK dependency in your app script:

dependencies {
    ...
    implementation("io.piano.android:analytics:VERSION")
}

2. Add required Google/Huawei ID libraries, if you want to use it as Visitor ID

dependencies {
    ...
    // for GOOGLE_ADVERTISING_ID or ADVERTISING_ID
    implementation("com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads-identifier:GOOGLE_VERSION")
    // for HUAWEI_OPEN_ADVERTISING_ID or ADVERTISING_ID
    implementation("com.huawei.hms:hms-ads-identifier:HUAWEIVERSION")
}

3. Add Huawei libraries repository (only if you've added Huawei ID library at the previous step)

    repositories {
        ...
        maven("https://developer.huawei.com/repo/")
    }

Check the documentation for an overview of the functionalities and code examples

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Usage

Configure SDK at your application initialization

val configuration = Configuration.Builder(
    collectDomain = "logs.xiti.com",
    site = 123456789,
    // you can set other properties here 
).defaultPrivacyMode(...)
    // or set properties via builder methods
    .build()

PianoAnalytics.init(applicationContext, configuration)

Sending events

PianoAnalytics.getInstance().sendEvents(
    Event.Builder(Event.CLICK_NAVIGATION)
        .properties(
            Property(PropertyName.CLICK, "value"),
            // you can add other properties here
        )
        .build(),
    // you can add other events here
    Event.Builder("some_event_name")
        .properties(
            Property(PropertyName("some_property_name"), "value"),
        )
        .build()
)

Some event names are predefined in Event class, some property names are predefined in PropertyName class also

Working with privacy modes

val privacyModesStorage = PianoAnalytics.getInstance().privacyModesStorage
// create new privacy mode
val myCustomPrivacyMode = PrivacyMode(
    visitorMode = "name",
    visitorConsent = true
)
// forbid all storage features for new mode
myCustomPrivacyMode.forbiddenStorageFeatures += PrivacyStorageFeature.ALL
// register the new privacy mode
privacyModesStorage.allModes += myCustomPrivacyMode
// set current privacy mode (should be registered before, if custom)
privacyModesStorage.currentMode = myCustomPrivacyMode

Working with custom properties

val contextPropertiesStorage = PianoAnalytics.getInstance().contextPropertiesStorage
// add new context property
contextPropertiesStorage.add(
    ContextProperty(
        properties = setOf(
            Property(...),
            Property(...)
        ),
        persistent = false,
        eventNames = listOf(Event.CLICK_NAVIGATION, Event.CLICK_ACTION)
    )
)
// remove some property added before
contextPropertiesStorage.deleteByKey(PropertyName.CLICK)

Working with user

val userStorage = PianoAnalytics.getInstance().userStorage
// check that user was loaded from storage
if (userStorage.userRecognized) {
    ...
}
// set current user
userStorage.currentUser = User("id", shouldBeStored = false)

Working with AV Insights

val heartbeat = SparseLongArray()
...
val bufferHeartbeat = SparseLongArray()
...
val mediaHelper = PianoAnalytics.getInstance()
    .mediaHelper("contentId")
    .setHeartbeat(heartbeat)
    .setBufferHeartbeat(bufferHeartbeat)
// set playback speed
mediaHelper.playbackSpeed = 2.5
// post play event
mediaHelper.play(
    position,
    Property(...)
)
// post share event
mediaHelper.share()

For more examples, please refer to the Documentation

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Migration from 3.2.0 and older to 3.3.0+

1. Update all imports from io.piano.analytics to io.piano.android.analytics
2. Replace all withXXXX(...) calls with XXXX(...) for Configuration.Builder
3. Replace pa.setConfiguration(configuration) with PianoAnalytics.init(applicationContext, configuration). Note: configuration can be set only once, at initialization.
4. Replace Event("some_event_name", new HashMap<String, Object>(){{ ... }}) with Event.Builder("some_event_name").properties( ... ).build()
5. Replace pa.setProperty(...) with contextPropertiesStorage.add(ContextProperty(...)), where contextPropertiesStorage is PianoAnalytics.getInstance().contextPropertiesStorage
6. Replace pa.privacySetMode(...) with PianoAnalytics.getInstance().privacyModesStorage.currentMode = ...
7. Replace Media(pa) with PianoAnalytics.getInstance().mediaHelper("av_content_id_value"). Note: MediaHelper instance is linked to contentId and adds it as av_content_id property automatically

You can find full list of changes here

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Contributing

Please do not hesitate to contribute by using this github project, we will look at any merge request or issue. Note that we will always close merge request when accepting (or refusing) it as any modification has to be done from our side exclusively (so we will be the ones to implement your merge request if we consider it useful). Also, it is possible that issues and requests from GitHub may take longer for us to process as we have dedicated support tools for our customers. So we suggest that you use GitHub tools for technical purposes only :)

License

Distributed under the MIT License.

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Contact

AtInternet a Piano Company - [email protected]

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