Using debug mode

When debug mode is enabled, exceptions will be thrown when the tracker is not started properly.

Enable debug mode for iOS

For iOS, you can switch between logging tiers to see output from the tracker to help you with integration. There are four logging tiers:

• verbose: output everything

• debug: output debug related info, warning and error

• warning: output warnings and errors

• error: output errors (see property loglevel)

All log output has the format [CB]: xxxx

Objective-C

[CBTracker sharedTracker].debugMode = true;
[CBTracker sharedTracker].logLevel = CBTrackerLogLevelVerbose;i

Swift

CBTracker.shared().debugMode = true
CBTracker.shared().logLevel = .verbose

Enable debug mode for Android

Set com.chartbeat.androidsdk.DEBUG to true before your first call to setupTracker.

Test your app integration in a sandbox dashboard

We recommend first adding our code in a test app, and using a corresponding test dashboard in your Chartbeat account to view the data before pushing your app to production with your prod site ID. For example, if your production site ID is mysite.com, your test site ID could be test.mysite.app. In the following instruction articles for our Android and iOS SDK, remember when adding our code to your test app to use test site ID and update it to your production site ID only when your team is finished QA'ing the integration for data accuracy.

Check your Real-Time Dashboard

Once you've added our code to your test app and added the test Site to your Chartbeat account, you can now watch real-time traffic data populate your test dashboard as your team interacts with different pages of your test app.

To view your test dashboard:

1. ​Sign in to your Chartbeat account.

2. From the Sites page, find your test Site and hover over the site entry to reveal the 'Real-Time' button.

3. Click the 'Real-Time' button.

App integration QA checklist

• Requests to ping.chartbeat.net are made from all pages of the app where our SDK is implemented and the trackView function is called

• Unique viewId (page path) values are sent from every tracked view within your app

  • viewId values should be consistent for each unique screen across your iOS and Android apps, and you can check the value being sent to our servers in the "p=" parameter included in the outbound heartbeat requests to ping.chartbeat.net

  • viewId values should also match the canonical web URLs we receive from corresponding pages on your website if you intend to view app and web traffic data in the same dashboard

  • For views unique to the app without corresponding pages on your website, we recommend passing placeholder web URLs such as https://www.mysite.com/app-homepage

• Each in-app page with a corresponding page on your website should also pass section, author, and title values which match exactly the sections, authors and titles we receive from the webpage

• For the Android SDK, userInteracted calls should be made each time a visitor touches the screen

In the Chartbeat requests to ping.chartbeat.net, the following query string parameters can be reviewed to see how data is being passed from each page via your team's code implementation:

The p, g0, g1 & i parameters should update with new values as you navigate to new views within the app, containing the unique page path, section, author, and title for each tracked view.

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