Localytics Destination

Our Localytics mobile destination code is open sourced on GitHub. Feel free to check it out: iOS, Android.

Getting Started

Once the Segment library is integrated with your site or app, toggle Localytics on in your Segment destinations, and add your application’s App Key which you can find in your Localytics app settings. These new settings will take up to an hour to propogate to all of your existing users. For new users it’ll be instanteneous!

If you are using version 1.3.0 or higher of the Segment-Localytics Android SDK, you can include a localytics.xml file in your Android project’s res/values folder to define your settings. Note that any settings entered in the Segment UI will override the equivalent values defined in your localytics.xml file. You can read more about the localytics.xml file in Localytics’s documentation here.

Including a settings xml file in conjunction with a Segment-Localytics iOS SDK is not yet supported.

Note: Localytics does not accept cloud-mode data, so you must use a device-mode library ( such as Analytics.js, iOS/Android or React Native), with the Localytics SDKs bundled in order to send data to Localytics.

You must also add the Maven Localytics repo (since Localytics doesn’t publish it on Maven Central). You can see an example of how to add that here.

React Native set up

To add the Localytics device-mode SDK to a React Native project:

1. Navigate to the root folder of your project, and run a yarn add localytics command to add the destination SDK to your project.
2. Add an import statement to your project, as in the example below.

   import Localytics from '@segment/analytics-react-native-localytics'
   

3. In the same project file, add the destination to the using list in the await command.

   await analytics.setup('YOUR_WRITE_KEY', {
     // Add any of your Device-mode destinations. This ensures they load before continuing.
     using: Localytics
     // ...
   })
   

4. Finally, change to your iOS development folder ( cd ios ) and run pod install.

Identify

When you call identify, we’ll set the Localytics customer Id, and set any special Localytics traits you provide, such as name, or email, and any custom traits as well.

Track

Whenever you call track, we’ll log an event with Localytics. track takes the name of the event and any optional properties you want to associate with the event.

Push Notifications

Push notifications on Android require a bit of extra work to setup.

• First, you need to make sure Localytics is being bundled. You can find out more information about bundled integrations in our Android documentation.

• Follow Localytics’ documentation to set up the permission in your AndroidManifest.xml. Specifically, the AndroidManifest changes regarding the GcmReceiver, GcmListenerService, InstanceIDListenerServer, and PushTrackingActivity classes.

• In lieu of step four, you will register the Push receiver in your Activity or Application class within a Segment onIntegrationReady method:

@Override protected void onResume() {
    super.onResume();

     Analytics.with(this).onIntegrationReady(BundledIntegration.LOCALYTICS, new Callback() {
      @Override public void onIntegrationReady(Object integration) {
        Localytics.registerPush("YOUR-SENDER-ID");
      }
    });
}

Supported Sources and Connection Modes

Before you start, make sure Localytics supports the source type and connection mode you’ve chosen to implement. You can learn more about connection modes here.

This destination requires that you use a Device-based Connection Mode for Mobile data. Make sure you package the Localytics mobile SDK with the Segment mobile library.

Settings

Segment lets you change these destination settings from the Segment app without having to touch any code.

App Key

You can find your App Key in your Localytics Settings page.

Custom Dimensions

Localytics only accepts custom dimensions that have been pre-set in your app. Make sure to set these up in Localytics first, under Settings > Apps and then editing your app settings. You should then map the trait in an identify call or the property in a track call to the corresponding custom dimension you want to send. For e.g. you might map gender with custom dimension 0. You can read more about custom dimensions here

Session Timeout Interval

If an App stays in the background for more than this many seconds, start a new session when it returns to foreground.

Use Organization Scope for Attributes

This allows a user to set the profileScope of attributes within Localytics to Organization. If this is enabled, the attributes that you set for a user will be available across all of your apps in Localytics. If it’s unchecked, we’ll use the default SDK behavior of Application scoping.