See Trackactions made in each screen - mobile app

Hi, 

So trackState is a page view event, and trackAction is a click or an interaction event.. the two don't correlate with one another, and if you are firing both for every screen loaded you are using up 2 server calls each time.

If you want to know the page name on your actions, it's best to create a context variable like "site.pageName", then map that context variable to a prop or evar which is tracked on both page views and actions.

So for instance, lets say you have an app using the following flow:

1. User Opens App (lands on the home page)

2. User Clicks on a Link to go to Page 2 (you don't probably want an action at this time... just the page view on Page 2)

3. Use Clicks on an interaction item on Page 2 (you want to track a trackAction here)

So 

you would set up a context variable site.pageName

1. on the home page, with your trackState call, you would also pass this context variable

additionalContextData.put("site.pageName", "homePage");
MobileCore.trackState("homePage", additionalContextData);

2. On page 2, you would do the same trackState (except both the standard pageName value and your custom value would change to "page 2" or whatever you want to call it

3. When the user interacts with the element you want to track

additionalContextData.put("site.pageName", "page 2");
MobileCore.trackAction("Interaction Clicked", additionalContextData);

Important Note: do not map your site.pageName value to Page Name using processing rules (this will make all your actions also count as page views which will inflate your page views)

A lot of Adobe clients already use this eVar Page Name concept on their web pages, since the default Page Name is not available on Custom Links, and the default Page Name is limited to 100 characters, whereas if you use a Hit Level eVar, you can store 255 characters.