Logging events in Flurry outside an active session

Question

Does Flurry only log custom events if a session is active? or does it also log custom events outside the scope of a session? I ask this because we let the user decide to enable/disable data tracking, and I would like to know if encapsulating the Sessions around an if-statement is sufficient, or if I should place if-statements around each FlurryAgent.logEvent(...) call.

Answer 1

From my usage of Flurry, you need to make logEvent calls within the scope of a session. So failing to call the session will prevent the logEvent from working.

In my case I was simply trying to track when a user enabled or disable an app widget which I didn't want tracked as a session because it would skew my stats as these "sessions" would not even last a second.

In your case it would represent desired behaviour.

But considering the Flurry library is not transparent, I wouldn't trust the current behaviour. Since the call is static, it really wouldn't be that taxing to surround with static call.

public static void logEvent(Context context){
    boolean userWantsPrivacy = PreferenceManager bla bla...
    if(!userWantsPrivacy){
        FlurryAgent.logEvent(...)
    }
}

If the access to the sharedpreference causes some kind of perceived performance hit, consider storing the preference in some sort of singleton.