Is anyone using GA to track mobile apps? The mobile SDKs shows a lot of potential until you start wondering about offline usage, GA being a website tracker first. I couldn't find any final answers but from what I can see it might be a sore point: the SDK docs dodge the topic [1] and I see complaints, ie events can be batched for later but get the timestamps of when they were uploaded, instead of when they happened [2,3,4].
We are using GA to track mobile apps. The local queuing and dispatch of hits to GA is covered here[1]. We've found it to be pretty reliable. You can also modify the dispatch time for testing, etc.
Note: Data must be dispatched and received by 4 a.m. of the following day, in the local timezone of each profile. Any data received later than that will not appear in reports.
Do your mobile apps require an Internet connection? From what I'm seeing I imagine that's a prerequisite to use GA. It's a deal breaker for me though, I can't intentionally throw away a slice of offline usage data (iPods, iPads, etc).
[1]https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...