Admin User Dashboard - Mobile Stats

(Bcguy) #1

There are a number of development efforts I’m aware of to create mobile apps for use with Discourse forums. Given these efforts - it would be very helpful to have mobile stats that differentiate between the two methods of access - native apps vs. mobile browser.

Is it possible to add these statistics to the Admin Dashboard? What would the App developers need to do, so that the app accesses/api calls are differentiated from the regular mobile browser calls?

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s106/sh/816b1559-b6c6-4a3f-9fa1-a45bd82426ff/3f3e03394065f81b05eac35365d80fa5/deep/0/Admin%20-%20Schizophrenia%20Forums.png

(Régis Hanol) #2

One could use a specific HTTP header/API key to differentiate between browser and native app usage.

(Kane York) #3

Right now, requests are detected as mobile if the user-agent matches /Mobile/ - so you could use that.

(Sam Saffron) #4

Its a pretty theoretic problem at this point when there is a native app out there we can look at it. As a simple stopgap I would assume it had a unique useragent and google analytics would be totally fine at picking that up.