How to disable Crashlytics during development

Question

Is there any simple way to turn Crashlytics Android SDK off while developing ?

I don\'t want it to send a crash every time I do something stupid

On the othe

Answer 1

The chosen answer is not correct any more. Google changed the integration of Crashlytics. My current version is 2.9.1 and the only thing I had to do is, to add implementation 'com.crashlytics.sdk.android:crashlytics:2.9.1' to my Gradle file. No further things required, nice but this means that Crashlytics is always running.

Solution 1

Only compile Crashlytics in release version:

dependencies {
   ...
   releaseImplementation 'com.crashlytics.sdk.android:crashlytics:2.9.1' // update version
}

Solution 2

If you want to additionally configure Crashlytics then Solution 1 is not working, since the Crashlytics classes will not be found in Debug Builds. So change the Gradle implementation back to:

implementation 'com.crashlytics.sdk.android:crashlytics:2.9.1' // update version

Then go to your Manifest and add the following meta-data tag inside the application tag:

...

Add to your Launch-Activity (only one-time required, not every Activity)

if (!BuildConfig.DEBUG) { // only enable bug tracking in release version
   Fabric.with(this, new Crashlytics());
}

This will only enable Crashlytics in release versions. Be careful, also check for BuildConfig.DEBUG when you then configure Crashlytics, E.g:

if (!BuildConfig.DEBUG) {
   Crashlytics.setUserIdentifier("HASH_ID");
}