Tracking an iOS App user

Question

All,

I would like to collect stats on what users are entering into my apps' search box so I created a web service that phones home with the search string they typed in along with the number of results it returned.

How can I relate these search stats to a specific device? I heard that Apple is going to disallow the access of user device ids:

//deprecated
[[UIDevice currentDevice] uniqueIdentifier]

Answer 1

You could use a third party for your analytics, instead of the web service. Try:

Flurry.com

is a good one.

Then you could use an app like Stats for Flurry to view your statistics:

Stats for Flurry

Yes, Apple has deprecated UDID - but they have provided another method to uniquely identify your users per app. You need to use:

CFUUIDCreate

Answer 2

You could try Flurry, Google Analytics and TestFlight. If you choose one of those, it will save your efforts. Also, if you want to track bugs, BugSense will help you a lot.