Set up Amplify Analytics

The 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 (Kinesis support is currently only available in the Amplify JavaScript library). The Analytics category uses Amazon Cognito Identity pools to identify users in your App. Cognito allows you to receive data from authenticated, and unauthenticated users in your App.

Goal

To setup and configure your application with Amplify Analytics and record an analytics event.

Prerequisites

Install and configure Amplify CLI
An Android application targeting Android API level 24 (Android 7.0) or above
- For a full example of creating Android project, please follow the project setup walkthrough

Set up Analytics backend

Run the following command in your project's root folder. The CLI will prompt configuration options for the Analytics category such as Amazon Pinpoint resource name and analytics event settings.

The Analytics category utilizes the Authentication category behind the scenes to authorize your app to send analytics events.

amplify add analytics

? 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)

To deploy your backend, run:

amplify push

Upon completion, amplifyconfiguration.json should be updated to reference provisioned backend analytics resources. Note that these files should already be a part of your project if you followed the Project setup walkthrough.

Install Amplify Libraries

Expand Gradle Scripts, open build.gradle (Module :app). You will already have configured Amplify by following the steps in the Project Setup walkthrough.

Add Analytics by adding these libraries into the dependencies block:

dependencies {
    // Add these lines in `dependencies`
    implementation 'com.amplifyframework:aws-analytics-pinpoint:ANDROID_VERSION'
    implementation 'com.amplifyframework:aws-auth-cognito:ANDROID_VERSION'

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Initialize Amplify Analytics

To 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 your onCreate() method in your application class:

import android.util.Log;
import com.amplifyframework.AmplifyException;
import com.amplifyframework.analytics.pinpoint.AWSPinpointAnalyticsPlugin;
import com.amplifyframework.auth.cognito.AWSCognitoAuthPlugin;
import com.amplifyframework.core.Amplify;

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

Your class will look like this:

public class MyAmplifyApp extends Application {
    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();
        try {
            // Add these lines to add the AWSCognitoAuthPlugin and AWSPinpointAnalyticsPlugin plugins
            Amplify.addPlugin(new AWSCognitoAuthPlugin());
            Amplify.addPlugin(new AWSPinpointAnalyticsPlugin());
            Amplify.configure(getApplicationContext());
            Log.i("MyAmplifyApp", "Initialized Amplify");
        } catch (AmplifyException error) {
            Log.e("MyAmplifyApp", "Could not initialize Amplify", error);

import android.util.Log
import com.amplifyframework.AmplifyException
import com.amplifyframework.analytics.pinpoint.AWSPinpointAnalyticsPlugin
import com.amplifyframework.auth.cognito.AWSCognitoAuthPlugin
import com.amplifyframework.core.Amplify

Amplify.addPlugin(AWSCognitoAuthPlugin())
Amplify.addPlugin(AWSPinpointAnalyticsPlugin())

Your class will look like this:

class MyAmplifyApp : Application() {
    override fun onCreate() {
        super.onCreate()
        try {
            // Add these lines to add the AWSCognitoAuthPlugin and AWSPinpointAnalyticsPlugin plugins
            Amplify.addPlugin(AWSCognitoAuthPlugin())
            Amplify.addPlugin(AWSPinpointAnalyticsPlugin())
            Amplify.configure(applicationContext)
            Log.i("MyAmplifyApp", "Initialized Amplify")
        } catch (error: AmplifyException) {
            Log.e("MyAmplifyApp", "Could not initialize Amplify", error)

import android.util.Log;
import com.amplifyframework.AmplifyException;
import com.amplifyframework.analytics.pinpoint.AWSPinpointAnalyticsPlugin;
import com.amplifyframework.auth.cognito.AWSCognitoAuthPlugin;
import com.amplifyframework.rx.RxAmplify;

RxAmplify.addPlugin(new AWSCognitoAuthPlugin());
RxAmplify.addPlugin(new AWSPinpointAnalyticsPlugin());

Your class will look like this:

public class MyAmplifyApp extends Application {
    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();
        try {
            // Add these lines to add the AWSCognitoAuthPlugin and AWSPinpointAnalyticsPlugin plugins
            RxAmplify.addPlugin(new AWSCognitoAuthPlugin());
            RxAmplify.addPlugin(new AWSPinpointAnalyticsPlugin());
            RxAmplify.configure(getApplicationContext());
            Log.i("MyAmplifyApp", "Initialized Amplify");
        } catch (AmplifyException error) {
            Log.e("MyAmplifyApp", "Could not initialize Amplify", error);

To record an event, create an AnalyticsEvent and call Amplify.Analytics.recordEvent() to send it:

import com.amplifyframework.analytics.AnalyticsEvent;
import com.amplifyframework.core.Amplify;

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

import com.amplifyframework.analytics.AnalyticsEvent
import com.amplifyframework.core.Amplify

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

import com.amplifyframework.analytics.AnalyticsEvent;
import com.amplifyframework.rx.RxAmplify;

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

The AWS Pinpoint event count updates in minutes after recording your event.

However, it can take upwards of 30 minutes for the event to display in the Filter section, and for its custom attributes to appear in Pinpoint.

View Analytics console

If you have not saved the link from before, you can still reach it from the terminal. Run the following command for opening the console.

amplify console analytics

Next Steps:

Congratulations! Now that you have Analytics' backend provisioned and Analytics library installed. Check out the following links to see Amplify Analytics use cases:

Record events