Google Analytics in Chrome Packaged Apps

tl;dr use the Chrome Platform Analytics Library.

Today I released my first Chrome Packaged App. When I first set out to build a packaged app I didn’t know how restrictive it would be. For security reasons, Google disallows a lot of behavior that is usually acceptable in regular web development. One of these behaviors is the execution of external scripts, such as Google Analytics.

After spending a while on Google, I figured out how to properly use Google Analytics in a Chrome Packaged App. Here’s how…

Google has a Github repository called Chrome Platform Analytics. This repo contains a JavaScript library that can be downloaded and included as a local script in any packaged app. This gets around the external script restriction.

The wiki provides all the instructions needed to get started.

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