Google Analytics for developers

Do your mobile apps require an Internet connection? From what I'm seeing I imagine that's a prerequisite to use GA. It's a deal breaker for me though, I can't intentionally throw away a slice of offline usage data (iPods, iPads, etc).

Here's what Google itself has to say on the matter: http://support.Google.com/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...

Here's how to correct one code example from the blog post:

  //this function is OK, but probably an unnecessary abstraction of a one-liner
  function trackEvent(category, action, label) {
    window._gaq.push(['_trackEvent', category, action, label])
  }

  //this event handler will not track some non-negligible percentage of events
  $("article a").click(function(e) {
    var element = $(this)
    var label = element.attr("href")
    trackEvent("Outbound link", "Click", label)
  });


  //corrected outbound link event handler which gives GA 100 ms to register
  //the event.  higher than 100 risks UX degradation, lower increases the %
  //of untracked events.  100 ms is happy medium  
  $("article a").click(function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();  //stay on the page for now
    var element = $(this)
    var label = element.attr("href")
    trackEvent("Outbound link", "Click", label)
    //leave the page after a short delay
    window.setTimeout("window.location.href='" + label + "'", 100);
  });