What is the use of Firebase Crashlytics?

Crashlytics is a Google-owned Boston, Massachusetts-based software company founded in May 2011 by entrepreneurs Wayne Chang and Jeff Seibert. Crashlytics helps collecting, analyzing and organizing app crash reports.

Firebase Crashlytics is a lightweight, realtime crash reporter that makes it easy for you to manage stability issues in your app . Crashlytics saves you troubleshooting time by intelligently grouping crashes and highlighting the circumstances that lead up to them.

It’s free . Google bought out Fabric.io the main competitor and combined it with Firebase Crashlytics, so it’s not like you have any other choice. The competition in this space isn’t that intense. And if you are using Firebase already for your database, you might as well add in crashlytics.

Go to the Crashlytics dashboard in the Firebase console . Make sure your app is selected from the dropdown next to Crashlytics at the top of the page. Click Enable Crashlytics.

The first step we need to take is to create a Firebase project and add it to our Android app.