How to set Firebase install source for ios app?

Question

Information.
IOS app swift, firebase+analytics, bigquery integration, iAd (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/iad)

Problem.
Most of installs are direct/none in firebase - so the same in analytics & bigquery. Main sources are google ads and apple ads. We can get apple ads source and campaign using iAd. But no info how to send this data to firebase (=how to set source for Firebase)

Question.

• Is it possible to manually set source/medium/campaign for Firebase? Can't find anything :(
• Any other tips how to get install source/medium/campaign and set it to Firebase?

Also, if we will use some tracker - appmetrica, appsflyer etc - there will be the same question - how to get source data from appsflyer and send it to Firebase

Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

As mentioned in the Firebase group conversation :

1. Setup multiple user properties based on the info you have (like source, medium, campaign, etc)
2. Combine 2 or more user properties to make an audience
3. Filter your attribution report on the audience

Follow the whole conversation here.

There is one documentation about how to add firebase to your apple project and another on installation of firebase in your apple app. For more information you can refer to the blog5, medium post and link on how Campaign Attribution Works in Google Analytics for Firebase

Answer 2

Okay. After researches and tests I have this view

(1) First of all - unfortunately look like firebase team doesn't make clear and working method of setting custom sources

(2) There is some possibility to send something directly to source/medium/campaign in Firebase, but it work unstable. To do this you need
Get somewhere your Source/Medium/Campaign (for example from iAd) send 'campaign_details' event with source/medium/campaign params

Also, as mentioned Divyani Yadav - You can just send this params anywhere to user_properties And somehow work with this data (using bigquery or making audiences to make some analysis in Analytics), but this approach doesn't rewrite firebase initial source/medium/campaign params