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Ionic Capacitor Plugin: The latest framework added to Tenjin’s list of supported SDK plugins

Tabarak Paracha

January 19, 2023

We are excited to announce the addition of the Ionic Capacitor plugin to our list of supported SDKs. This decision was made in response to the high demand from our developer community. 

With the Ionic Capacitor plugin, developers will have access to a wide range of features and capabilities that will make it easier to integrate Tenjin into even more apps.

What is Ionic Capacitor?

Ionic Capacitor is a cross-platform app runtime that makes it easy to build web-based apps that run natively on iOS, Android, Electron, and the web. 

It bridges web and native platforms, allowing web developers to use modern web APIs, such as Device and Filesystem, to access native device capabilities like the camera, Bluetooth, and more.

What do advertisers get with the Ionic Capacitor Plugin?

The Ionic Capacitor Plugin provides publishers with a suite of powerful tools for advertising and monetizing their apps. These include: 

  • Ad Attribution and cohort reporting
  • Marketing Analytics (Cost aggregation, ad revenue LTV, and more)
  • Impression level ad revenue callback forwarding
  • Data Warehousing as a service (DataVault)

How to integrate the ionic capacitor plugin?

You can find the detailed instructions on how to integrate the ionic capacitor plugin here, or reach out to us directly at support@tenjin.com if you have any further questions. 

What other plugins does Tenjin support?

Find out what other plugins we support here. If you support a plugin that is not listed, reach out to us directly at support@tenjin.com for further information.

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Tenjin’s Dictionary for App Marketers

App marketing isn’t an easy job. With hundreds of thousands of apps competing for attention, marketing has become a race, requiring the ability to quickly navigate through dense thickets of technical knowledge and performance requirements. One of the side effects of this growing complexity is a professional terminology that’s incomprehensible to outsiders. And if an...

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Growth Analytics vs. Product Analytics: What’s the Difference?

Sunny Cha

Growth Analytics vs. Product Analytics: What’s the Difference?

We often get asked how Tenjin compares to analytics companies such as Mixpanel, Amplitude, deltaDNA, and others. The short answer is that the best way to describe those other analytics solutions is as product-centric tools, while Tenjin can best be categorized as a growth-centric tool. What do we mean by product vs. growth analytics? Product-centric...

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Reported Installs vs. Tracked Installs

Sunny Cha

Reported Installs vs. Tracked Installs

If you use our attribution to track installs by media source, you might notice that there are two types of installs described there: Reported Installs and Tracked Installs. What’s the difference? Why are there differences between Reported Installs and Tracked Installs? Are the networks trying to scam you by overcharging for installs? No, probably not. In very few...

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Tenjin’s Data Now Available through Mixpanel for Improved Product Analytics

Sunny Cha

Tenjin’s Data Now Available through Mixpanel for Improved Product Analytics

The consumer journey is more complex today than it has ever been before. As consumers rely on a greater multitude and variety of connected devices, it has become increasingly difficult to follow their digital footprint. And yet it’s vital for product people in this day and age to understand every user’s journey so that they...

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The Paid Marketing Conversion Funnel

Chris Farm

The Paid Marketing Conversion Funnel

In my last few meetings with small developers who want to learn about paid User Acquisition, we talked about the paid marketing conversion funnel. It seems like a simple concept at the outset, but when marketers first start buying installs it’s probably the most important concept to understand. Here’s a slide that sums up the...

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Tenjin Adds Search Ads Attribution for iOS 10

Sunny Cha

Tenjin Adds Search Ads Attribution for iOS 10

Today, Apple ends its test of App Store Search Ads and rolls out the feature to all developers as part of iOS 10. This is a brand new user acquisition channel, and one with interesting implications for big and small app developers alike. Impact of search on the app marketSearch on the App Store has become clogged...

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IDFA Sends All Zeros on iOS 10 Devices

Chris Farm

IDFA Sends All Zeros on iOS 10 Devices

A few months ago, Apple announced that iOS 10 will send all zeros for itsadvertisingIdentiferfield when the device’s user sets their limit ad tracking flag toON. According to Tenjin’s aggregate records, this represents ~15% of devices where IDFA will not be unique for a specific device. As I noted in my last post about cookies, the...

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Tenjin Raises $2.5 Million from NetEase Capital to Expand Its Marketing Infrastructure for Mobile Apps

Sunny Cha

Tenjin Raises $2.5 Million from NetEase Capital to Expand Its Marketing Infrastructure for Mobile Apps

Press Release: San Francisco – June 2, 2016 – Tenjin, the mobile marketing infrastructure company, announced today that it has raised an additional $2.5 million in funding to simplify and improve mobile marketing by giving marketers complete control over their user data. The round was led by NetEase Capital, the venture arm of the NASDAQ-listed...

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Tenjin DataVault: a marketing infrastructure as a service.

Sunny Cha

Tenjin DataVault: a marketing infrastructure as a service.

Tenjin is proud to announce DataVault, a professional, fully managed, direct access SQL Data Warehouse for all your marketing needs. It’s a big step to democratizing mobile app business infrastructure. App developers commonly build business infrastructure once their mobile app shows promise. This is distracting. Tenjin can offload this infrastructure work with DataVault, allowing developers to...

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Building for the Marketing Scientist

Chris Farm

Building for the Marketing Scientist

As marketing goes digital, it starts to share a lot of common ground with data science. At Tenjin, we are seeing people with backgrounds in these two seemingly distinct fields, marketing and data science, emerge with a new role: the “Marketing Scientist”. There are two main drivers for the rise of the Marketing Scientist: These two...

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