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To configure the iOS SDK, the MParticleOptions
object is passed during initialization. The complete list of configuration options is as follows and several detailed examples are below.
All data sent into an mParticle input must be marked as either “development” or “production”. The SDK attempts to detect the environment by reading the provisioning profile at runtime.
In addition to uploading data as development, the SDK will also adjust some of its functionality to allow for a faster integration process:
NSAssert
exceptions when invalid objects are passed to its APIs, such as the IDSync and commerce APIs.You can override the environment in your MParticleOptions
object:
MParticleOptions *options = [MParticleOptions optionsWithKey:@"REPLACE WITH APP KEY"
secret:@"REPLACE WITH APP SECRET"];
options.environment = MPEnvironmentProduction;
[[MParticle sharedInstance] startWithOptions:options];
let options = MParticleOptions(key: "REPLACE WITH APP KEY",
secret: "REPLACE WITH APP SECRET")
options.environment = MPEnvironment.production;
MParticle.sharedInstance().start(with: options)
All development data will appear in your workspace’s live stream. In order to see production data, log into the mParticle platform, navigate to live stream, select your app, and filter on the appropriate devices based on IDFA.
Data Master allows you to define the format of any data being sent to the mParticle SDK. After creating a data plan in the mParticle UI, you simply set the data plan ID in the MParticleOptions
object along with the optional data plan version and initialize the SDK as normal. When you return to the mParticle UI and visit the Live Stream section to view incoming data, you’ll find warnings for any data that has been recieved that does not conform to your data plan.
MParticleOptions *options = [MParticleOptions optionsWithKey:@"REPLACE WITH APP KEY"
secret:@"REPLACE WITH APP SECRET"];
options.dataPlanId = @"mobile_data_plan"; // Always undercase with white space replaced with '_'
options.dataPlanVersion = @(1);
let options = MParticleOptions(key: "REPLACE WITH APP KEY",
secret: "REPLACE WITH APP SECRET")
options.dataPlanId = "mobile_data_plan" // Always undercase with white space replaced with '_'
options.dataPlanVersion = 1
The mParticle Apple SDK will not log any messages to the console by default, but you can set a log level between verbose and error to allow corresponding messages to be written out using NSLog. However, you should ensure the log level is only set for your development or Ad-Hoc builds and that the log level remains set to MPILogLevelNone (the default) in your production App Store apps. This is important to avoid leaking information and can be done with preprocessor directives or otherwise depending on your app’s configuration.
MParticleOptions *options = [MParticleOptions optionsWithKey:@"REPLACE WITH APP KEY"
secret:@"REPLACE WITH APP SECRET"];
options.logLevel = MPILogLevelVerbose;
[[MParticle sharedInstance] startWithOptions:options];
let options = MParticleOptions(key: "REPLACE WITH APP KEY",
secret: "REPLACE WITH APP SECRET")
options.logLevel = MPILogLevel.verbose
MParticle.sharedInstance().start(with: options)
You can also set a custom logger block to be used in case you want to send the logs out to a remote server or do any other custom handling of the messages.
Note that if you set a custom log handler, the SDK will only use that and will not log to the system log, but if you want the messages to show up in both places you can do so by simply calling NSLog within the log callback block.
We strongly recommend you avoid inspecting the logs programmatically to determine SDK behavior unless it’s 100% necessary for a temporary workaround—log messages are not guaranteed to be consistent between releases.
MParticleOptions *options = [MParticleOptions optionsWithKey:@"REPLACE WITH APP KEY"
secret:@"REPLACE WITH APP SECRET"];
options.customLogger = ^(NSString *message) {
// handle log message
};
[[MParticle sharedInstance] startWithOptions:options];
let options = MParticleOptions(key: "REPLACE WITH APP KEY",
secret: "REPLACE WITH APP SECRET")
options.customLogger = { (message: String) in
// handle log message
}
MParticle.sharedInstance().start(with: options)
By default the mParticle SDK replaces your UIApplication.delgate
with its own NSProxy
implementation in order to facilitate and simplify the handling of remote notifications, local notifications, interactions with notification actions, and application launching. Over time we have found this to be less intrusive than other SDKs which instead perform swizzling.
You can choose to disable this via the proxyAppDelegate
flag of the MParticleOptions
object. Doing so means you will need to audit any kits that you use invididually to determine which UIApplication
APIs they require. Any required methods should be manually invoked on mParticle, such that mParticle can forward those APIs onto each kit.
MParticleOptions *options = [MParticleOptions optionsWithKey:@"REPLACE WITH APP KEY"
secret:@"REPLACE WITH APP SECRET"];
options.proxyAppDelegate = NO;
[[MParticle sharedInstance] startWithOptions:options];
let options = MParticleOptions(key: "REPLACE WITH APP KEY",
secret: "REPLACE WITH APP SECRET")
options.proxyAppDelegate = false
MParticle.sharedInstance().start(with: options)
The following is a list of all calls that would need to be made to the mParticle SDK from your app delegate:
// Required for universal links and all kits such as AppsFlyer, Braze, and Branch
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application continueUserActivity:(NSUserActivity *)userActivity restorationHandler:(void (^)(NSArray<id<UIUserActivityRestoring>> * _Nullable))restorationHandler {
return [[MParticle sharedInstance] continueUserActivity:userActivity restorationHandler:restorationHandler];
}
// Required if supporting custom URL schemes
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)app openURL:(NSURL *)url options:(NSDictionary<UIApplicationOpenURLOptionsKey,id> *)options {
[[MParticle sharedInstance] openURL:url options:options];
return YES;
}
// Only required if supporting iOS 9 or below
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application openURL:(NSURL *)url sourceApplication:(NSString *)sourceApplication annotation:(id)annotation {
[[MParticle sharedInstance] openURL:url sourceApplication:sourceApplication annotation:annotation];
return YES;
}
//
// Below methods required for all kits that have remote or local notification functionality
// Also required if using mParticle to register for push notification without any kits
//
- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken:(NSData *)deviceToken {
[[MParticle sharedInstance] didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken:deviceToken];
}
- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didFailToRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithError:(NSError *)error {
[[MParticle sharedInstance] didFailToRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithError:error];
}
- (void)userNotificationCenter:(UNUserNotificationCenter *)center willPresentNotification:(UNNotification *)notification withCompletionHandler:(void (^)(UNNotificationPresentationOptions))completionHandler {
[[MParticle sharedInstance] userNotificationCenter:center willPresentNotification:notification];
if (@available(iOS 14.0, *)) {
completionHandler(UNNotificationPresentationOptionList | UNNotificationPresentationOptionBanner);
} else {
completionHandler(UNNotificationPresentationOptionAlert);
}
}
- (void)userNotificationCenter:(UNUserNotificationCenter *)center didReceiveNotificationResponse:(UNNotificationResponse *)response withCompletionHandler:(void (^)(void))completionHandler {
[[MParticle sharedInstance] userNotificationCenter:center didReceiveNotificationResponse:response];
completionHandler();
}
// Only required if supporting iOS 9 or below
- (void)application:(UIApplication *)application didReceiveRemoteNotification:(NSDictionary *)userInfo {
[[MParticle sharedInstance] didReceiveRemoteNotification:userInfo];
}
// Required for universal links and all kits such as AppsFlyer, Braze, and Branch
func application(_ application: UIApplication, continue userActivity: NSUserActivity, restorationHandler: @escaping ([any UIUserActivityRestoring]?) -> Void) -> Bool {
return MParticle.sharedInstance().continue(userActivity, restorationHandler: restorationHandler);
}
// Required if supporting custom URL schemes
func application(_ app: UIApplication, open url: URL, options: [UIApplication.OpenURLOptionsKey : Any] = [:]) -> Bool {
MParticle.sharedInstance().open(url, options: options)
return true
}
// Only required if supporting iOS 9 or below
func application(_ application: UIApplication, open url: URL, sourceApplication: String?, annotation: Any) -> Bool {
MParticle.sharedInstance().open(url, sourceApplication: sourceApplication, annotation: annotation)
return true
}
//
// Below methods required for all kits that have remote or local notification functionality
// Also required if using mParticle to register for push notification without any kits
//
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken deviceToken: Data) {
MParticle.sharedInstance().didRegisterForRemoteNotifications(withDeviceToken: deviceToken)
}
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFailToRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithError error: any Error) {
MParticle.sharedInstance().didFailToRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithError(error)
}
func userNotificationCenter(_ center: UNUserNotificationCenter, willPresent notification: UNNotification, withCompletionHandler completionHandler: @escaping (UNNotificationPresentationOptions) -> Void) {
MParticle.sharedInstance().userNotificationCenter(center, willPresent: notification)
if #available(iOS 14, *) {
completionHandler([.list, .banner])
} else {
completionHandler(.alert)
}
}
func userNotificationCenter(_ center: UNUserNotificationCenter, didReceive response: UNNotificationResponse, withCompletionHandler completionHandler: @escaping () -> Void) {
MParticle.sharedInstance().userNotificationCenter(center, didReceive: response)
completionHandler()
}
// Only required if supporting iOS 9 or below
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didReceiveRemoteNotification userInfo: [AnyHashable : Any]) {
MParticle.sharedInstance().didReceiveRemoteNotification(userInfo)
}
By default the SDK automatically collects http user agent information on initialization. This information is required by some of mParticle’s server-side Attribution partners for accurate fingerprinting of a device. mParticle needs to open a UIWebView
instance to collect this data, which may require additional memory overhead on app startup. If you would prefer to set the user agent yourself, or not to collect it at all, you can turn off this default behavior in MParticleOptions
.
MParticleOptions *options = [MParticleOptions optionsWithKey:@"REPLACE WITH APP KEY"
secret:@"REPLACE WITH APP SECRET"];
options.collectUserAgent = NO;
options.customUserAgent = @"Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS %@ like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/602.2.14 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/xxxx mParticle/xxxx";
[[MParticle sharedInstance] startWithOptions:options];
let options = MParticleOptions(key: "REPLACE WITH APP KEY",
secret: "REPLACE WITH APP SECRET")
options.collectUserAgent = false
options.customUserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS %@ like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/602.2.14 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/xxxx mParticle/xxxx"
MParticle.sharedInstance().start(with: options)
To save bandwidth and device battery, mParticle does not upload each event as it is recorded. Instead, events are assembled into batches and uploaded based on specific triggers. When a trigger is fired, the SDK will:
The following will trigger SDK batch creation and upload:
upload
API is invoked (see below)You can configure the regular upload trigger:
MParticleOptions *options = [MParticleOptions optionsWithKey:@"REPLACE WITH APP KEY"
secret:@"REPLACE WITH APP SECRET"];
options.uploadInterval = 60;
[[MParticle sharedInstance] startWithOptions:options];
let options = MParticleOptions(key: "REPLACE WITH APP KEY",
secret: "REPLACE WITH APP SECRET")
options.uploadInterval = 60;
MParticle.sharedInstance().start(with: options)
You can also force an upload trigger with the upload
method:
[[MParticle sharedInstance] upload];
MParticle.sharedInstance().upload()
You can read detailed instructions for implementing crash reporting in the error tracking documentation under crash reporting.
If your app targets iOS and tvOS in the same Xcode project, you need to configure the Podfile
differently in order to use the SDK with multiple platforms. You can find an example of multi-platform configuration here.
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