Chapter 9. Application Usage Measuring and Notification, Firebase Analytics, and Cloud Messaging

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

– Albert Einstein, Physicist

Firebase Analytics offers an approach to find out about the user base of an application, and to examine and track the manner by which those users are drawn in and connect with the application.

This chapter will provide an overview of Firebase Analytics and present the highlights of this service. The chapter will start by outlining the distinctive features of Firebase Analytics including events, user parameters, and audiences.

The subsequent sections will help us explore the different screens that make up the analytics area of the Firebase console before working through a tutorial exercise including the aforementioned events.

Also in this chapter, we will be exploring Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM), which is a cross-platform messaging solution that allows delivery of the messages...