Monitoring Your App with Firebase Crashlytics

In Android app development, errors can happen even after launch. To ensure a good user experience, it is important to monitor and fix issues quickly. Firebase Crashlytics is a powerful tool for tracking, analyzing, and solving crashes in real time.

In this article, we will explore how to use Crashlytics to improve your app's stability.

🚀 What is Firebase Crashlytics?

Crashlytics is a Firebase monitoring service that provides detailed reports on crashes and non-fatal errors. It helps to quickly identify problems and prioritize fixes based on real user impact.

🔹 Main features:

✅ Real-time crash reports

✅ Grouping of similar errors

✅ Tracking of exceptions and ANRs (Application Not Responding)

✅ Integration with custom logs

✅ Support for affected users and devices

⚙️ Forcing a Crash for Testing

To check if Crashlytics is working, you can force an error inside in :

After running the app, the error will be reported in Firebase Console > Crashlytics.

🔍 Monitoring Errors in Production

After the initial setup, Crashlytics automatically starts capturing crashes. You can add more details and customize reports with logs, keys, and user identifiers.

📝 Adding Custom Logs

🔑 Setting Keys for Better Diagnosis

👤 Identifying Affected Users

These details help to understand the error context and speed up the solution.

📊 Analyzing and Fixing Problems

In the Firebase Console, Crashlytics provides a crash summary:

✅ Error severity → Prioritize the most critical crashes. ✅ Number of affected users → Focus on the most impactful issues. ✅ Detailed stack trace → Helps to find the source of the error.

With this information, you can fix bugs and release a new app version.

Monitoring crashes is essential to keep your app stable and reliable. Firebase Crashlytics offers a complete solution to detect, analyze, and solve issues quickly.

💡 Final tip: Always check Crashlytics reports and fix errors before they affect a large number of users! 🚀

And you? Do you already use Crashlytics in your app? Share your experience in the comments! 👇