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Question

I have two build flavors in gradle but for some reason whenever i change the following flag to false i get the titled error message:

ext.enableCrashlytics =          


        

Answer 1

Whenever I set

ext.enableCrashlytics = false

my app crashes with

io.fabric.sdk.android.services.concurrency.UnmetDependencyException

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What seems to work for me is that I have to disable automatic initialization of Crashlytics by adding this line to AndroidManifest.xml

Then I manually initialize Crashlytics in the onCreate() method of my Application subclass, use BuildConfig.DEBUG to decide whether to disable CrashlyticsCore, and call Fabric.with(). In fact, I no longer set

ext.enableCrashlytics = false

at all. It all seems to work to me.