FR: Analytics support on watchOS

[jroets]

Please add Firebase Analytics support to SDK on watchOS, so that we can record to Firebase Analytics directly from watch apps in the same way we can on iOS apps.

To my knowledge right now, to record analytics data from a watch app to Firebase Analytics requires proxying through the SDK running on the iPhone. Or else don't use Firebase for analytics and instead record to GA using its web API (there is no GA SDK for watchOS). Or use a non-Google analytics provider that actually does offer a watchOS SDK, like Yahoo's Flurry SDK. Less than ideal for those of us who want to use Firebase Analytics from a watch app.

[hannesjung]

+1

[nstr]

+1

[jostster]

+1, Is analytics for iOS open source? I'm not seeing the code for doing community support for watchOS.

[paulb777]

@jostster FirebaseAnalytics is not open source.

[jostster]

@paulb777 Do you know if it is on the roadmap to allow it to work on watchOS? It seems #4558 will be held up by the community without the watchOS support on Analytics since it looks like the FirebaseCrashlytics backend activation requires the Analytics to ping the server.

[paulb777]

@jostster I can't speak about roadmaps, but I can say that watchOS is a lower priority than Catalyst, tvOS, and macOS.

Also, Crashlytics does have support for Catalyst, even thought Analytics is not available.

[kutsin]

Any updates on this?

[paulb777]

@kutsin Nothing new to report about Analytics platform coverage.

We'll eliminate that warning in an upcoming release in the meantime.