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Why it’s never too early to add product analytics to your app

Mixpanel

When you’re in the early stages of launching a new app, you’ve already got an enormous number of challenges with little time and resources to get it all done. So it’s tempting to think the additional add-on of measuring user events in your code (i.e., If you don’t get your features built, you won’t have an app to launch, right?

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Common technical hiccups in your product analytics that are easy to spot

Mixpanel

You can spend all the time in the world devising a thoughtful, nuanced analytics strategy for your product analytics, but if your event tracking isn’t set up behind the scenes just how you need it, some (or all) of your data might be rendered far less helpful than you’d like. As they say—garbage in, garbage out.

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How to be the go-to engineer for product analytics

Mixpanel

One of those niches that’s become more valuable in recent years: product analytics. As data-driven product development continues to balloon in popularity, so does the need for accurate and sophisticated implementation of analytics tracking in software products. Spearhead a slick analytics implementation.

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Mobile app event tracking: Telling the story of how your app works (or doesn’t work)

Mixpanel

Event tracking is how you know what’s happening in your mobile apps. It’s the primary technique used to capture usage information by product analytics platforms like Mixpanel. An event is something that happens in an app. When a user uses an app, they do stuff. Let’s unpack that, shall we?

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Always implement analytics as part of feature development. Here’s why.

Mixpanel

Product analytics is an ongoing effort. As new features are added to your products, so should new analytics events be added to your codebases. But different companies have different strategies for how and when they update their analytics implementations. Others wait to implement analytics until a later sprint all at once.

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Data thinking vs. product thinking

Mixpanel

Data has fundamentally changed how we design and develop products, but there’s a difference between simply reacting to data points and applying the level of analytic rigor needed to yield meaningful results. The ultimate outcome should be reality-aligned insights. Understand the role of data with nuance.

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How to add analytics event tracking in SwiftUI (the elegant way)

Mixpanel

So the last thing we want is to step on all of that by needlessly littering our views with event tracking calls to analytics platforms. The solution: Update the elegance of your event tracking approach to match the elegance of SwiftUI. Analytics code can balloon SwiftUI views. Analytics code can balloon SwiftUI views.