Request: Facebook App Events Support

[b099l3]

Context

I am looking to use Facebook App Events, only the Application Installed event, to track ads -> installs.

Current state of play

There is only a native and react-native support for this and Flutter we will have to add in to this repo or fork.

From reading these issues on this repo, I assume there is going to be work towards a "Fully Dynamic and Scalable Segment Integration":

• [DISCUSSION][Tech Debt] - Fully Dynamic and Scalable Segment Integration #17
• feature/scalable-integration - Add dynamic and scalable segment integration #18

In the meantime it looks like all integrations are done in this repo, with the idea of eventually separating them out:

• Avoid having all integrations in the same package #49

PRs with integrations:

• Mixpanel integration #15
• Firebase Integration #48
• feat: add option to activate native integration with appsflyer #19

As for the Application Installed event, it appears there is an issue where it doesn't fire via the dart implementation:

• App installed event tracking problem for iOS #26
  I have noticed no Application Installed but I do get Application Opened Application Backgrounded events. So I will try to look into that.

Solutions

what is the best way to take this forward?

1. Fork this repo and add in my dependancy via the same method as the PRs with integrations above. To avoid adding more PRs to this repo before its changed to "Fully Dynamic and Scalable Segment Integration"
2. Fork and merge my addition of Facebook App Events
3. Try to mix together this package and facebook_app_events as mentioned here App installed event tracking problem for iOS #26 (comment) Does @ariefwijaya have an example of this?

[b099l3]

Went with option 2:

• Facebook App Events Integration #54

[b099l3]

Fix for the Application Installed event:

• Fix for iOS Application Installed event #56

[ariefwijaya]

@b099l3
We can use cloud mode for facebook, no need to add the facebook library in our flutter-segment. Just add facebook destination from segment admin panel.
https://segment.com/docs/connections/destinations/catalog/facebook-app-events/

For the advertising id, I fetch it from this plugin https://pub.dev/packages/advertising_id and set it manually using our existing method:

Segment.setContext({
     'device': {
       'adTrackingEnabled': adTrackingEnabled.toString(),
       'advertisingId': advertisingId,
     }
   });

[b099l3]

See this #54 (comment) for details about why this didn't work in my case.