Fabric Debug Craslytic Reports : Signup, build Id missing, apply plugin : io.fabric

Question

We have programming an Android app and try to implement Crashlytics to our app.

We have different types of problem . Version we used : Android studio version : 3.3

Gradle version : classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.3.1'

Plugin : Fabric for Android studio v4.3.0

Implementation : implementation('com.crashlytics.sdk.android:crashlytics:2.9.9') { transitive = true } implementation('io.fabric.sdk.android:fabric:1.4.0@aar') { transitive = true }

gradle-wrapper.properties : distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.2.1-all.zip

First Problem :

When we implement Crashlytics, you know that developers have 3 steps. We can not skip 2,3.steps. Because we have not compiled our application yet. We had two main errors:

Error 1:

This app relies on Crashlytics. Please sign up for access at https://fabric.io/sign_up,

Error 2 :

E/CrashlyticsCore: The Crashlytics build ID is missing.This occurs when 
Crashlytics tooling is absent from your app's build configuration.
Please review Crashlytics onboarding instructions and ensure you have a valid Crashlytics account.

So, we had to be disabled "Debug Mod" to complete implementation of Crashlytic.

Crashlytics crashlyticsKit = new Crashlytics.Builder()
        .core(new CrashlyticsCore.Builder().disabled(BuildConfig.DEBUG).build())
        .build();

Fabric.with(this, crashlyticsKit);  // Tod from Fabric suggested in stackoverflow

And implementation was completed.

But we do not want to do that. Because, when we have a crash, it does not any report to Crashlytics or Firebase. We also want to have debug mod’s crashes.

When we removed -> ....disabled(BuildConfig.DEBUG) - it shows again : Error 1, Error 2.

Second Problem :

In gradle ; apply plugin : ‘io.fabric’, we made the comment line, when we remove comments line, we have errors below :

Error 3 :

WARNING: API 'variant.getExternalNativeBuildTasks()' is obsolete and has been replaced with 'variant.getExternalNativeBuildProviders()'.
It will be removed at the end of 2019.
For more information, see https://d.android.com/r/tools/task-configuration-avoidance.
To determine what is calling variant.getExternalNativeBuildTasks(), use -Pandroid.debug.obsoleteApi=true on the command line to display a stack trace.
Affected Modules: app

When we searched it, this error related to new android studio gradle. So we needed to make comment line “apply plugin: fabric.io” again.

There is no good solution about that.

To run application we can not remove:

new CrashlyticsCore.Builder().disabled(BuildConfig.DEBUG).build() : (due to Error1 Error2)

So we try to enable report different ways :

What have we try to add until here?

1. Enable in gradle :

buildTypes {
    debug {
        manifestPlaceholders = [crashlyticsEnabled: true]
        minifyEnabled false
        proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
    }
    release {
        minifyEnabled false
        proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        manifestPlaceholders = [crashlyticsEnabled: false]

    }

2. Enable in Manifest

<meta-data
    android:name="firebase_crashlytics_collection_enabled"
    android:value="true" />

3.Enable in ADB

  adb shell setprop log.tag.Fabric DEBUG
  adb shell setprop log.tag.CrashlyticsCore DEBUG

But still, Crashlytics or Firebase does not get any Debug Crash reports.

We have expecting your solutions.

Answer 1

This also happens if you set ext.enableCrashlytics = false for a build variant but still try to call Fabric.with(context, Crashlytics()) in your app initialization code. ext.enableCrashlytics = false disables the build plugin (an optimization I made to make my debug builds faster) but then of course the build ID will be missing.