Analytics Swift AppsFlyer Plugin

1. From the Segment web app, click Catalog.
2. Search for "AppsFlyer" in the Catalog, select it, and choose which of your sources to connect the destination to.
3. In the destination settings, enter your AppsFlyer Dev Key, which can be retrieved from the App Settings section of your AppsFlyer account.
4. After you build and release to the app store, Segment starts translating and sending your data to AppsFlyer automatically.

In the Xcode File menu, click Add Packages. You'll see a dialog where you can search for Swift packages. In the search field, enter the URL to this repository.

        https://github.com/segment-integrations/analytics-swift-AppsFlyer

You'll then have the option to pin to a version, or specific branch, as well as which project in your workspace to add it to. Once you've made your selections, click the Add Package button.

Open your Package.swift file and add the following do your the dependencies section:

1
.package(
2
            name: "Segment",
3
            url: "https://github.com/segment-integrations/analytics-swift-appsflyer.git",
4
            from: "1.1.3"
5
        ),

Open the file where you setup and configure the Analytics-Swift library. Add this plugin to the list of imports.

1
import Segment
2
import SegmentAppsFlyer // <-- Add this line

Just under your Analytics-Swift library setup, call analytics.add(plugin: ...) to add an instance of the plugin to the Analytics timeline.

1
let analytics = Analytics(configuration: Configuration(writeKey: "<YOUR WRITE KEY>")
2
                    .flushAt(3)
3
                    .trackApplicationLifecycleEvents(true))
4
analytics.add(plugin: AppsFlyerDestination())

Your events will now begin to flow to AppsFlyer in device mode.

If you're not familiar with the Segment Specs, take a look to understand what the Identify method does. An example iOS call would look like:

1
struct MyTraits: Codable {
2
        let favoriteColor: String
3
}
4

5
analytics.identify(userId: "a user's id", MyTraits(favoriteColor: "fuscia"))

When you call Identify, Segment uses AppsFlyer's setCustomerUserID to send the Segment userId you passed in.

If you're not familiar with the Segment Specs, take a look to understand what the Track method does. An example iOS call would look like:

1
struct TrackProperties: Codable {
2
        let someValue: String
3
}
4

5
analytics.track(name: "My Event", properties: TrackProperties(someValue: "Hello"))

When you call Track, Segment automatically translates the event and sends it to AppsFlyer.

Segment includes all the event properties as callback parameters on the AppsFlyer event, and translates properties.revenue to the appropriate AppsFlyer purchase event properties based on the spec-matching properties.

Segment uses AppsFlyer's transactionId deduplication when you send an orderId (see Segment's e-commerce spec for more details).

Segment automatically triggers an Install Attributed event if you have trackAttributionData enabled in your settings and the Segment-AppsFlyer integration installed in your app. The event payload will adhere to the Install Attributed event specification documented in Segment's Mobile Spec and will propagate to your other downstream destinations.

The AppsFlyer destination automatically recognizes spec-matching revenue property and translates them to AppsFlyer's revenue tracking method.

The AppsFlyer destination automatically recognizes the spec-matching orderId property, and sends it as the Transaction ID to AppsFlyer for revenue de-duplication.

The AppsFlyer destination does not currently support in-app purchase receipts. If this is important to you, email support@appsflyer.com.

The AppsFlyer destination does not automatically support out-of-the-box deeplinking (you need to write code here regardless!).

You can use AppsFlyer's OneLink integration which is a single, smart, tracking link that can be used to track on both Android and iOS. OneLink tracking links can launch your app when it is already installed instead of redirecting the user to the app store.

For more details, review the AppsFlyer OneLink set up Guide. More information is available in the AppsFlyer SDK Integration Guides (iOS, Android) and Segment's mobile FAQs (iOS, Android).