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1. Splunk SDK for Android
Damien Dallimore
Developer Evangelist

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Background
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• Why did I undertake this initiative ?
• 800 million active Android devices by 2013 = big mobile data , big mobile
developer community
• Starting to get considerable demand from Splunk developers for mobile
capabilities
• I really believe that mobile is the future for delivery of data insights &
data driven applications , Splunk is the perfect back end platform.

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What is the Splunk SDK for Android
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• Cousin to the Splunk SDK for Java
• Will mirror Splunk SDK for Java releases to a certain extent
• Refactored and recompiled for the Dalvik VM runtime
• Primarily the XML streaming classes
• Reduced footprint to better suit the mobile environment, 1 single jar , as small in size as possible
• Utility classes to make common tasks easier
• logging to Splunk
• searching Splunk
• pulling system/device/sensor metrics from Android and logging to Splunk
• Preview currently published to Splunkbase , plan to move it to an official Splunk supported SDK
• https://github.com/damiendallimore/splunk-sdk-android
• Developed against Android version 4.2 (JellyBean)

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Pulling raw system metrics of Android
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Device activity, battery data, geolocation data, telephony data, wifi data, application behaviour ,
calls/messaging/camera usage , use your imagination to turn this raw data into application gold !

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Other Splunk mobile librarys
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Nick Key’s Storm Logger for Android
• http://blogs.splunk.com/2013/03/07/mobile-analytics-with-storm/
• http://blogs.splunk.com/2013/04/28/mobile-analytics-with-storm-part-2/
• https://github.com/nicholaskeytholeong/splunk-storm-mobile-analytics
David Carasso’s logger for iOS
• http://blogs.splunk.com/2013/02/07/splogger-iphone-logging-api/
• https://github.com/carasso/splogger

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Contact me
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Email : ddallimore@splunk.com
Twitter : @damiendallimore
Skype : damien.dallimore
Github : damiendallimore
Splunkbase : damiend
Slideshare : http://www.slideshare.net/damiendallimore
Blogs : http://blogs.splunk.com/dev
Web : http://dev.splunk.com