FullStory Device Mode Integration

This guide will help you send events to FullStory in device mode using their native web/mobile SDK.

Before sending events, follow the instructions in the Setup guide to set up the FullStory device mode integration depending on your platform.

Identify

You can use the identify method to uniquely identify a user in FullStory.

A sample identify call is shown below:

rudderanalytics.identify("1hKOmRA4GRlm", {
  displayName: "Alex",
  email: "alex@example.com",
  country: "US",
});

RudderStack translates the above call to FullStory’s identify call as follows:

• Sends userId as uid.
• Passes the remaining traits as is.

In web device mode, RudderStack sends the anonymousId of the user as uid if you do not provide the userId.

displayName and email are optional traits and FullStory handles them differently. Once specified in the identify call, they show up automatically the next time you browse your user list in FullStory.

See FullStory documentation for more information.

Track

The track call lets you track custom events as they occur in your web application.

A sample track call is shown below:

rudderanalytics.track("Order Completed", {
  orderId: "1234567",
  price: "567",
  currency: "USD",
});

RudderStack passes a track call with all its associated event properties to FullStory via its FS.event method.

Page

The page call lets you record your website’s page views, with any additional relevant information about the viewed page. By default, RudderStack sends all page calls to FullStory as events.

A sample page call is shown below:

rudderanalytics.page("homepage");

The above call sends a Viewed a Page event to FullStory along with the following properties:

• name (homepage in the above example)
• path
• referrer
• search
• title
• url

RudderStack also passes any additional properties in the page call to FullStory.

Screen

The screen call is the mobile equivalent of the page call. It lets you record the screen views on your mobile app along with other relevant information about the screen.

RudderStack sends the screen call to FullStory as a custom event.

A sample screen call is shown below:

MainApplication.rudderClient.screen(
    "Sample Screen Name",
    RudderProperty().putValue("prop_key", "prop_value")
)

In the above snippet, RudderStack captures all the information related to the viewed screen, along with any additional info associated with that event. In FullStory, the above screen call is shown as Screen Viewed, along with the associated properties.

Reset

The reset method resets the previously identified user and any related information. See FullStory Reset API for more information.

A sample reset call for iOS is shown below:

[[RSClient sharedInstance] reset];

A sample reset call for Android is shown below:

MainApplication.rudderClient.reset()

FAQ

How do I prevent FullStory from automatically recording on startup?

By default, FullStory automatically requests a session and starts recording on the app’s startup.

To start recording the app only when certain conditions are met, you can use FullStory’s RecordOnStart feature. Configuring FullStory to disable RecordOnStart prevents any recording until you explicitly invoke FS.restart.

Follow these steps:

For iOS

In your iOS app’s Info.plist FullStory dictionary, add a RecordOnStart key of type Boolean with a value of NO.

See FullStory iOS documentation for more information.

For Android

Go to your FullStory plugin configuration (where you set the organiation ID) and set the following:

fullstory {
org 'YOUR_ORG_ID_HERE'
recordOnStart false
}

See FullStory Android documentation for more information.

How do I subclass from an application in Android?

FullStory requires that you enable MultiDex. If your minSdkVersion is set to 21 or higher, Multidex is enabled by default. In this case, you will need to extend android.app.Application, otherwise there will be a build error. If your minSdkVersion is lower than 21, you will need to subclass from androidx.multidex.MultiDexApplication instead.

If you’re using Java and if you do not have an application class, you will need to create one. In your App.java, add the following:

import android.app.Application;
public class App extends Application {
...
}

If you’re using Kotlin and if you do not have an application class, you will need to create one and add the following in your App.kt:

import android.app.Application

class App: Application() {
...
}

Then, set android:name="App" in your AndroidManifest.xml under the <application> tag as shown:

<application
android:name="App" ….

Build was configured to prefer settings repositories over project repositories but repository ‘Google’ was added by build file ‘build.gradle’. What do I do?

Go to your settings.gradle file located in the root, and then comment or remove this line: repositoriesMode.set(RepositoriesMode.FAIL_ON_PROJECT_REPOS) as shown in the following snippet:

dependencyResolutionManagement {
    // repositoriesMode.set(RepositoriesMode.FAIL_ON_PROJECT_REPOS)
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
        jcenter() // Warning: this repository is going to shut down soon
    }
}
rootProject.name = "FullStory_Sample_App"
include ':app'

For more information, see FullStory documentation.

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