Firebase Crash Reporting in Android

Presentation from Google Launchpad Build Sub-Saharan Africa, Lagos. (https://events.withgoogle.com/launchpad-build-ssa/nigeria-lagos/)

Resources:
https://firebase.google.com/docs/crash/
https://github.com/segunfamisa/firebase-crash-demo
https://segunfamisa.com/posts/firebase-crash-reporting

Transcript

1. Firebase Crash Reporting in Android September, 2016 Sub-Saharan Africa Series, Lagos
2. Segun Famisa (SF) Software Engineer at Konga segunfamisa.com @segunfamisa +OluwasegunFamisa
3. Outline 1. What’s crash reporting? Why should I care? 2. Why should I use Firebase Crash Reporting? 3. How do I setup Firebase Crash Reporting? 4. How do I report my first crash? 5. Protips.
4. What’s crash reporting? Why should I care?
5. Why should you care about crash reporting? • App release is NOT the end of the development lifecycle • There will always be bugs • Bad reviews • Ratings matter Source: Wikimedia
6. Why should you care about crash reporting? • App release is NOT the end of your development lifecycle • There will always be bugs • Bad reviews • Ratings matter Unless you’re this guy
7. Why should you care about crash reporting? • App release is NOT the end of your development lifecycle • There will always be bugs • Bad reviews • Ratings matter Or this guy
8. Why should you care about crash reporting? • App release is NOT the end of your development lifecycle • There will always be bugs • Bad reviews • Ratings matter Or Jon Skeet
9. Why should you care about crash reporting? • App release is NOT the end of your development lifecycle • There will always be bugs • Bad reviews • Ratings matter You definitely don’t want this kind of reviews
10. Why should you care about crash reporting? • App release is NOT the end of your development lifecycle • There will always be bugs • Bad reviews • Ratings matter
11. Why should you care about crash reporting? • App release is NOT the end of your development lifecycle • There will always be bugs • Bad reviews • Ratings matter
12. What crash reporting will do for you. • Detect crashes & errors • Detailed stack traces • Fix errors • Improve app quality • Happy users Detect crashes & errors Improve app quality Happy users!
13. Introducing Firebase Crash Reporting
14. Firebase Crash Reporting First introduced at Google IO, 2016 as part of the movement to create a unified app platform for mobile developers
15. Firebase Crash Reporting Monitor fatal and non-fatal errors in your app
16. Firebase Crash Reporting Integrate easily with analytics and other services in the Firebase suite
17. Firebase Crash Reporting Crash reporting is Free & Easy to setup
18. How do I setup Firebase crash reporting in Android?
19. Requirements Android Studio >= 1.5 Android Device running Play services >= 9.0
20. 1. Create/import project to console a. Create/import b. Download config file 2. Add Firebase to your app a. Add google-services classpath b. Apply google-services plugin 3. Add Firebase crash reporting 1. Create/import Project
21. 1. Create/import Project 1. Create/import project to console a. Create/import b. Download config file 2. Add Firebase to your app a. Add google-services classpath b. Apply google-services plugin 3. Add Firebase crash reporting
22. 2. Add Firebase to your app 1. Create/import project to console a. Create/import b. Download config file 2. Add Firebase to your app a. Add google-services classpath b. Apply google-services plugin 3. Add Firebase crash reporting Sample project: https://goo.gl/V8e7QQ
23. 2. Add Firebase to your app 1. Create/import project to console a. Create/import b. Download config file 2. Add Firebase to your app a. Add google-services classpath b. Apply google-services plugin 3. Add Firebase crash reporting Sample project: https://goo.gl/V8e7QQ
24. 3. Add Firebase crash reporting 1. Create/import project to console a. Create/import b. Download config file 2. Add Firebase to your app a. Add google-services classpath b. Apply google-services plugin 3. Add Firebase crash reporting Sample project: https://goo.gl/V8e7QQ
25. How do I report my first crash?
27. Report your first crash Errr. Nvm, Firebase does that for you. No need to write any code to do that
28. What’s more?
29. 1. Reporting non-fatal exceptions You can also report non-fatal/handled exceptions, for tracking purposes.
30. 2. Custom logs Logs can be useful in determining what user actions led to a crash. Firebase does well to include that as part of the error. Firebase allows you to log to logcat or onto firebase directly
31. 2. Custom logs
32. 3. Error clusters Firebase groups errors in clusters, by similar stack traces and severity
33. 4. Upload proguard mappings Firebase allows you upload your mappings.txt file to map proguarded crash logs.
34. 5. Protip - Handling reporting for development & production. Little Problem. Firebase doesn’t allow you to enable or disable crash reporting.
35. 5. Protip - Handling reporting for development & production. How to disable Firebase crash reporting for dev build? You can’t. For now.
36. 5. Protip - Handling reporting for development & production. Here’s what you can do instead: Create dev and prod flavours for development and production builds.
37. 5. Protip - Handling reporting for development & production. Create another app on the console for dev build. Add the google-services.json to the project app/src/<build-flavour>/google-services.json
38. Firebase crash reporting is in beta Submit bug reports, or feature requests https://firebase.google.com/support/contact/bugs-features/
39. Resources & references • https://firebase.google.com/docs/crash/ • https://firebase.google.com/docs/crash/android • https://segunfamisa.com/posts/firebase-crash-reporting (Plug) • Firebase Android Tutorials playlist on YouTube • Demo project: https://github.com/segunfamisa/firebase-crash-demo
40. Thank you! Sub-Saharan Africa Series, Lagos segunfamisa.com @segunfamisa +OluwasegunFamisa