PostHog / PostHog/posthog-android
Capture additional properties along with autocapture events
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- Dominant language
- Kotlin
- Stars
- 90
- Forks
- 49
- Avg merge
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Description
Description
Provide a way to pass additional properties to autocapture events
- iOS (https://github.com/PostHog/posthog-ios/issues/222)
- Android (this issue)
- Flutter (https://github.com/PostHog/posthog-flutter/issues/421)
- RN (https://github.com/PostHog/posthog-js/issues/3809)
docs: https://posthog.com/docs/product-analytics/autocapture#capturing-additional-properties-in-autocapture-events
source: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog.com/pull/9675#discussion_r1808797232
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the Android SDK's autocapture implementation and the linked iOS, Flutter, and React Native issues for the intended behavior. Use the linked documentation as the acceptance reference; done means Android autocapture events can receive additional properties consistently with that documented behavior.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- kotlin
- Domain
- analytics, mobile
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100