Mobile tag management system

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Hi Snowplower,
On Web tagging implementation, we followed this tutorial and it works perfect:

However, I didn’t see any tutorials on GTM + Snowplow for mobile event tracking. Does that mean we can only use Snowplow native iOS/Android SDK for tagging? I still want to use tag management system like GTM for decoupling.

Thank you

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You can still use GTM on mobile depending on how your app has been implemented. If you have a native implementation on iOS / Android then you’ll need some methods that extend CustomTagProvider that then use the Snowplow Android / Objective-C trackers under the hood.

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@mike
Thank you for the reply, in this case, do you recommend using data layer + GTM as web or using native Snowplow SDK?
The reason I am trying to keep GTM for mobile is simply because our mobile app has frequent changes and I don’t want to keep track of all event triggers. GTM saved lots of trouble for us on web.

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You’ll need to use the Snowplow SDK either way (even if it’s with a GTM container). The newer versions of GTM for mobile are more Firebase focused so there’s no correct answer here but I’d be tempted to just go with a direct mobile implementation rather than use GTM.