Android Google Analytics connection to service failed
android, connection, google-analytics, service
Solution
Might not to be your case but here it goes anyways.
I had analytics working fine in my app. I was using Eclipse and decided to switch to Intellij IDE. When I did it, the IDE showed me a typografic warning on the dash character of my analytics.xml file (regarding ga_trackingId). When I made the change (invisible to the human eye) the warning went away but analytics just stopped working.
Might be something with the encoding of the file, whatever, but I my case I had to type the dash character and not paste it (and also add a tools:ignore="TypographyDashes" in my file to get rid of the warning).
Problem
I've implemented Google Analytics (V2) into my Android app. A while ago the code managed to send data to the profile (V2) succesfully. However now it refuses to connect to the service: ``` 04-09 14:42:49.911: W/GAV2(8576): Thread[main,5,main]: Need to call initialize() and be in fallback mode to start dispatch. 04-09 14:42:49.921: I/GAV2(8576): Thread[main,5,main]: ExceptionReporter created, original handler is com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$UncaughtHandler 04-09 14:42:50.051: D/libEGL(8576): loaded /system/lib/egl/libEGL_mali.so 04-09 14:42:50.061: D/libEGL(8576): loaded /system/lib/egl/libGLESv1_CM_mali.so 04-09 14:42:50.061: D/libEGL(8576): loaded /system/lib/egl/libGLESv2_mali.so 04-09 14:42:50.120: D/OpenGLRenderer(8576): Enabling debug mode 0 04-09 14:42:50.190: W/IInputConnectionWrapper(8576): showStatusIcon on inactive InputConnection 04-09 14:42:54.881: I/GAV2(8576): Thread[GAThread,5,main]: connecting to Analytics service 04-09 14:42:54.891: I/GAV2(8576): Thread[GAThread,5,main]: connect: bindService returned false for Intent { act=com.google.android.gms.analytics.service.START (has extras) } 04-09 14:42:54.901: W/GAV2(8576): Thread[GAThread,5,main]: Service unavailable (code=1), will retry. 04-09 14:42:54.941: I/GAV2(8576): Thread[GAThread,5,main]: No campaign data found. 04-09 14:42:59.911: I/GAV2(8576): Thread[Service Reconnect,5,main]: connecting to Analytics service 04-09 14:42:59.921: I/GAV2(8576): Thread[Service Reconnect,5,main]: connect: bindService returned false for Intent { act=com.google.android.gms.analytics.service.START (has extras) } 04-09 14:42:59.921: W/GAV2(8576): Thread[Service Reconnect,5,main]: Service unavailable (code=1), using local store. 04-09 14:42:59.921: I/GAV2(8576): Thread[Service Reconnect,5,main]: falling back to local store 04-09 14:42:59.971: V/GAV2(8576): Thread[GAThread,5,main]: dispatch running... 04-09 14:43:00.061: V/GAV2(8576): Thread[GAThread,5,main]: ...nothing to dispatch 04-09 14:43:00.061: I/GAV2(8576): Thread[GAThread,5,main]: PowerSaveMode initiated. 04-09 14:43:52.951: D/dalvikvm(8576): GC_CONCURRENT freed 197K, 4% free 7258K/7492K, paused 15ms+5ms, total 56ms 04-09 14:43:54.611: W/IInputConnectionWrapper(8576): showStatusIcon on inactive InputConnection ``` I'm pretty sure my code is sufficient since it managed to send data before. These are the steps I implemented (used the Android Google Analytics V2 docs): manifest additions: ``` <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" /> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" /> ``` main activity additions: ``` @Override public void onStart() { super.onStart(); EasyTracker.getInstance().activityStart(this); } @Override public void onStop() { EasyTracker.getInstance().activityStop(this); super.onStop(); } ``` xml (analytics.xml) ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <resources> <!--tracking ID--> <string name="ga_trackingId">UA-(copied from profile)-1</string> <!--Enable automatic activity tracking--> <bool name="ga_autoActivityTracking">true</bool> <!--Enable automatic exception tracking--> <bool name="ga_reportUncaughtExceptions">true</bool> <!--Enable debug tracking--> <bool name="ga_debug">true</bool> <integer name="ga_dispatchPeriod">20</integer> </resources> ``` I get the warnings at the very launch of the app. I've tried creating a new profile/account. I've tried using & #45; and & #8211; instead of the dashes. It's been 30+ hours since last data was received on the profile, since then the above logcat lines. Any ideas how this is caused?