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Crashlytics has literally changed the game with regards to crash reporting. Their UI and customer service has been wonderful (unlike most other mobile service providers...) and I really hope they continue to offer their services to devs.



They're very big on polish and claiming to be awesome, but it's all smoke and mirrors and gamesmanship.

Drill down on a crash for example: https://d1f4seebrc9wq7.cloudfront.net/blog/wp-content/upload...

All the information provided at the top is done with great attention to beautifully rendered icons, and it's all totally useless for diagnosing a crash report.

This is supposed to be a development tool, not an advertisement.


Agreed, I've had limited experience with the product and was disappointed. I think the above comments are correct, Twitter wanted them for the data not the talent.


I don't have much experience with other Crash reporting systems for iOS besides Crashlytics, but I will say that overall I have been happy with them. The image you linked to leaves out the actual stack trace, but trust me it's there.

The reason I ended up going with them is that they are 1) The library is tiny and isn't bloated with things I don't need 2) It's integration with Jenkins is great. It automatically uploads my dsym with the correct build number and all crashes from that build get tagged with that build number. 4) Support is fast 5) Love supporting a local Boston company

I will say that some of their design is a little over the top, they certainly love skeuomorphism. One thing that kind of annoys me about their site is that the content is a fixed width. This is frustrating because they add "..." to shorten some labels to fit instead of using all the screen real-estate available.


Apart from the fancy graphics, any reason to use Crashlytics instead of the open-source QuincyKit?


Have you used crashlytics before?

I use it in production with an app that has >50K users. It shows you the exact lines, and break down where it happens. What you showed isn't even important.


> It shows you the exact lines, and break down where it happens.

So they support DWARF and backtraces. Just like everyone else.

> What you showed isn't even important.

Yes, exactly.




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