Manually ending screen tracking on iOS and Android

The iOS tracker version 6.3.0 makes the ScreenEnd event public, so you can manually end the currently active screen. The event has always been public on the Android tracker.

The tracker already ends a screen automatically before each new screen view. That doesn't cover a user leaving a screen without a new screen view being tracked, such as when a WebView is presented on top of a native screen: a page view tracked from the WebView doesn't end the underlying native screen, so screen engagement metrics keep accumulating against a screen that's no longer visible.

Tracking a ScreenEnd event closes out engagement tracking for the active screen without tracking a new screen view. It's the same event the tracker already sends automatically before each screen view, so tracking it yourself doesn't interfere with automatic screen tracking or double-count engagement time.

See manually ending a screen for details and code examples.