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I am trying to use Google Analytics in my iOS app. I have tracked the events and screens. I want to track the time user spent on specific screens. How I can achieve this?

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    Log a screen view when you log the next screen view Google analytics automatically figures out the time on the first screen by when it gets the hit for the second screen. – Linda Lawton - DaImTo Nov 24 '14 at 13:43

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When it comes to Google Analytics I like to be creative. Here's my possible solution:

- (void)viewDidAppear
{
 _startingTime = [NSDate date];

- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated {
 _endingTime = [NSDate date];
 NSTimeInterval distanceBetweenDates = [_startingTime timeIntervalSinceDate:_endingTime];
 NSInteger minutesBetweenDates = distanceBetweenDates / 60;

Then, you might use Screens to send the data to your reports. 

id tracker = [[GAI sharedInstance] defaultTracker];

[tracker set:kGAIScreenName
       value:@"Home Screen %d", minutesBetweenDates];

[tracker send:[[GAIDictionaryBuilder createScreenView] build]];

For more precision on the time interval you might be interested in this method.

Alternatively, you may use Events to achieve the same objective.

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