Device info about as3-universal-analytics HOT 1 CLOSED

The library itself does not detect the device, this is done on the Google Analytics backend.
The GA server when they receive a request deduce the device from the user-agent string.

The first thing you can try is to send the data with POST
see Transport / Using POST

If that still does not correct the problem, you can override the user-agent param
with User Agent Override

In the library you have 2 ways to do that

with the configuration

var config:Configuration = new Configuration();
    config.forcePOST = true;
    config.overrideUserAgent = "(your custom user-agent here)";

var tracker:WebTracker = new WebTracker( "UA-12345-67", config );

with the tracker itself

var tracker:WebTracker = new WebTracker( "UA-12345-67", config );
    tracker.set( Tracker.USER_AGENT_OVERRIDE, "(your custom user-agent here)" );

you can see a small example and some notes here
generateCLIUserAgent.as

in particular this

Note that Google has libraries to identify real user agents.
Hand crafting your own agent could break at any time.

a wrong user-agent could be the reason of a hit request not being
registered by the Google Analytics Servers.

Sniffing / detecting user-agent to extrapolate the OS / device / etc. is a slippery slope
Google Analytics do that on the backend, from the library we have no control over it
even if you copy/paste a real user-agent you took from a device
but somehow GABE does not recognize it, not only it will not change the device / OS / etc.
but it will also ignore the request, eg. your tracking will not appears in the results.

If I was really forced to override the user-agent, I would try to do it in few steps

• detect the device
  see for ex Detecting and limiting Apple iOS devices
• have a map of OS/Device to real user-agent strings
• send those UA

really test hard with the GA backed that those UA are valid and accepted

from as3-universal-analytics.