iOS's App Store statistics tool

Objective

With the popularity of iOS development, a number of companies have provided specialized solutions or tools for all aspects of iOS development. These solutions or tools include: User behavior statistics tools (Friends, Flurry,google Analytics, etc.), App Store sales analytics tools (such as App Annie), app crash collection tools (such as Crashlytics), App test release tool (Test Flight), app push service, etc.

These solutions or tools save a lot of development time for iOS developers, but because of the lack of relevant articles, many developers are repeating themselves again and again to reinvent the wheel. So I'd like to put together a series of articles about the use of third-party services that I use and investigate, so that developers can save a lot of repetitive work.

Today we introduce the App Store statistics tool: App Annie and Apple's command line statistics tool.

Introduction to App Annie

Apple's official itunes Connect provides a weaker sales statistic, such as only storing detailed sales data for the last 30 days, an ugly interface, and an inability to view the app's ranking history changes.

AppAnnie is a statistical analysis tool specifically designed for developers to deal with data on the App Store. This tool can be used to count the number of downloads, rankings, sales revenue, and user evaluations of app in the App Store.

Principle

The principle of AppAnnie implementation is to ask the itunes Connect for information about your app, including daily downloads, user rating data, and sales data, through your configured admin account.

Register a Sales Type account

With AppAnnie, you first need to configure a sales type account in Apple's official itunes Connect. Because the default developer account is the admin level, the permission is very high, you can modify the price of the app or directly off the shelves. If this account is directly configured in the AppAnnie, although it does not affect its access to relevant data, but has a certain account security risk.

The detailed steps for configuring this account are as follows:

1, login itunes Connect, select Manager Users