Kinesis

Analytics

• Analytics category - enables you to collect analytics data for your App. The Analytics category comes with built-in support for Amazon Pinpoint and Amazon Kinesis.
• Set up Analytics backend
  • Run the following command in your project’s root folder: amplify add analytics

  • Configure:

    ? Select an Analytics provider (Use arrow keys)

    Amazon Pinpoint

    ? Provide your pinpoint resource name:

    yourPinpointResourceName

    ? Apps need authorization to send analytics events. Do you want to allow guests and unauthenticated users to send analytics events? (we recommend you allow this when getting started)

    Yes

  • Deploy: amplify push

• Install Amplify Libraries

  ` dependencies { // Add these lines in dependencies implementation ‘com.amplifyframework:aws-analytics-pinpoint:1.17.1’ implementation ‘com.amplifyframework:aws-auth-cognito:1.17.1’ }`

• Initialize Amplify Analytics - initialize the Amplify Auth and Analytics categories you call Amplify.addPlugin() method for each category. To complete initialization call Amplify.configure().

  • Add the following code to onCreate():

    Amplify.addPlugin(new AWSCognitoAuthPlugin()); Amplify.addPlugin(new AWSPinpointAnalyticsPlugin(this));

• Record Events:

  AnalyticsEvent event = AnalyticsEvent.builder() .name("PasswordReset") .addProperty("Channel", "SMS") .addProperty("Successful", true) .addProperty("ProcessDuration", 792) .addProperty("UserAge", 120.3) .build(); Amplify.Analytics.recordEvent(event);

• View Analytics console with the following command:

  amplify console analytics