Why is Fabric not initialized? java.lang.IllegalStateException: Must Initialize Fabric before using singleton()

Question

I set up Firebase Crashlytics according to Get started with Firebase Crashlytics for my Android app (using Android studio 3.1.3). On my own device as well as on the Emulator, ev

Answer 1

When you are using Firebase Crashlytics, you don't need to do any Fabric initialization. Everything is done automatically.

But if you want to do any custom logging, via (for example) Crashlytics.log("Custom log"), you need to have FirebaseCrashlytics enabled in your manifest. Check the manifest if you have something like that:

${crashlyticsEnabled} can be set to true or false or via you app level build.gradle. This is typically used to disable Firebase Crashlytics when you are debugging the app.