Social Interactions - Android SDK

This developer guide describes how to measure social interactions using the Google Analytics SDK for Android v3.

Overview

Social interaction measurement allows you to measure a user's interactions with various social network sharing and recommendation widgets embedded in your content.

Social interactions have the following fields:

Field Name Tracker Field Type Required Description
Social Network Fields.SOCIAL_NETWORK String Yes The social network with which the user is interacting (e.g. Facebook, Google+, Twitter, etc.).
Social Action Fields.SOCIAL_ACTION String Yes The social action taken (e.g. Like, Share, +1, etc.).
Social Target Fields.SOCIAL_TARGET String No The content on which the social action is being taken (i.e. a specific article or video).

Social interaction data collected by the Google Analytics SDK for Android v3.x is currently available via custom reports and the Core Reporting API.

Implementation

To send a social interaction to Google Analytics, use MapBuilder.createSocial() as in the following example:

// May return null if EasyTracker has not already been initialized with a
// property ID.
Tracker easyTracker = EasyTracker.getInstance(this);

easyTracker.send(MapBuilder
    .createSocial("Twitter",                                   // Social network (required)
                  "Tweet",                                     // Social action (required)
                  "https://developers.google.com/analytics")   // Social target
    .build()
);