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

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Answer 1

2019 Answer

I've been trying to only enable Crashlytics in release and disable in debug for 2 hours, checking the Firebase console to see if the Exceptions where uploaded or not.

There are 2 possible ways to do this.

OPTION 1

It works, but if you call any Crashlytics method on debug builds the app will crash.

app/build.gradle

android {
    buildTypes {
        release {
            manifestPlaceholders = [crashlyticsEnabled: true]
        }
        debug {
            manifestPlaceholders = [crashlyticsEnabled: false]
        }

AndroidManifest.xml

OPTION 2

An alternative if that allows you to call Crashlytics methods without checking BuildConfig.DEBUG first. With this setup you can safely call methods like Crashlytics.logException() - they simply do nothing in debug builds. I don't see the reports being uploaded in debug.

app/build.gradle

android {
    buildTypes {
        release {
            ext.enableCrashlytics = true
        }
        debug {
            ext.enableCrashlytics = false
        }

AndroidManifest.xml

Application onCreate()

val crashlytics = Crashlytics.Builder()
    .core(CrashlyticsCore.Builder().disabled(BuildConfig.DEBUG).build())
    .build()
Fabric.with(this, crashlytics)