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How to see analytics events in Firebase Debug View

Firebase Debug View is a tool that allows you to see the events that are being sent to Firebase Analytics. It is a great tool to use when you are trying to debug your analytics implementation.

Pre-requisites​

You need to have adb installed on your machine. You can either download it from here or you can try using https://yume-chan.github.io/ya-webadb/ website to run adb commands.

Debug View Setup​

  1. Download your Android app from Appmaker dashboard

  2. Connect your device to your machine using a USB cable

  3. Enable USB debugging on your device. You can find the steps here

  4. Run the following command in your terminal to check if your device is connected

    adb devices

    If your device is connected, you will see the following output

    List of devices attached
    <device_id> device

  5. Run the following command to start debug for your app. Replace <your_app_package_name> with your app's package name. You can get the package name from appmaker dashboard. 

    adb shell setprop debug.firebase.analytics.app <your_app_package_name>

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  1. Open console.firebase.google.com and navigate to your project. Click on debug view in the left sidebar. You can see your device listed in the debug view. You can also see the events that are being sent to Firebase Analytics.

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  1. You can click on the events to see the parameters that are being sent to Firebase Analytics.

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