Firebase Crashlytics

Firebase Crashlytics is a powerful, lightweight and real-time crash reporting tool that helps developers track, prioritize, and fix stability issues that can hurt an app’s quality.

Crashlytics groups all the crashes and highlights the paths that lead up to them.

By using Firebase Crashlytics, we can find out exceptions and fix them efficiently to improve user experience.

How does it work?

Firebase Crashlytics records exceptions or errors that occur in the app and sends them to the Firebase console, where you can see crash information in realtime and how and when and on which devices they occur.

This includes both fatal and non-fatal issues:

• Fatal issues are those that cause the app to crash.
• Non-fatal issues are exceptions that don’t cause a crash but might lead to one under some conditions.

Benefits of Firebase-Crashlytics

Real-time Reporting: Crashlytics gives us real-time crash reporting When an issue occurs, it’s logged and sent to the Firebase console.

Detailed Reports: Crashlytics provides us with detailed crash reports, that include full stack trace, which helps developers pinpoint the exact line of code that caused the issue in their projects.

Issue Prioritization: It prioritizes the issues based on their impact on users and groups similar issues together and provides information on the number of users affected, which helps developers prioritize issues and decide which ones to tackle first.

Integration: Crashlytics can also be integrated with other Firebase tools like Analytics, which allows developers to get a more understanding of their applications performance and user behavior.

Let’s understand with a simple example.

Things You Need

• Basic Understanding of Flutter Framework
• IDE like VSCODE or Android Studio
• Mobile device for testing
• Google account for firebase console

Getting Started

Set up your Flutter project:

First, make sure you have Flutter and Dart installed on your machine. If not, you can follow the official Flutter installation guide here: https://docs.flutter.dev/get-started/install

Create a new Flutter project using the following command in your VS code Terminal:

flutter create firebase_crashlytics_example , This will create a project for you, Now follow the rest of the instructions.

‍