International Business Machines Corporation
Widget provisioning of user experience analytics and user interface / application management

Abstract:

A method for tracking user interactions with an application includes: storing the application in a memory of a mobile device, the application being associated with an instrumented widget and a library, the widget including an event logger; executing the application and the widget; receiving, through a user interface of the mobile device, an input corresponding to the event logger of the widget; logging, by the library, the input corresponding to the event logger of the widget in the memory of the mobile device; filtering a plurality of events, including the input corresponding to the event logger of the widget, to manage what data is reported to a monitor; and transmitting the input corresponding to the event logger of the widget to a server as monitored data.