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I haven't heard of Fabric before. Fabric seems to have an ambiguous name and their marketing website is equally ambiguous. Something to do with mobile app analytics? I find this trend in developer tool marketing to be appalling.
They used to be called crashlytics. Best crash reporting tool . Just works. I guess they probably are a lot more interested in ranking for stuff like crash reporting than people chancing upon their website and trying to figure out who they are.
So weird to see the mostly dead http://crashlytics.com and its iOS 6-era design (linen texture!) as it's been superseded by "Fabric" and now "Firebase". Seems like such a strong brand name to kill in favor of these very generic alternatives.
They've just kept the website as-is since being acquired by Twitter and integrated into the larger Twitter products portfolio.
It is confusing at first though.
Knowing Google's reputation with abandoning developer tools and services, can anyone offer suggestions as to possible alternatives? Or counterpoints as to why I shouldn't fear this service degrading over the next year or two? We're currently using Fabric and Crashlytics for our iOS app where I work and this news has prompted us to research alternatives.
I spent the last few months working on getting iOS Support going in Sentry (sentry.io). Would love to hear feedback. Not only do we provide a hosted solution but it's also 100% Open Source which should give you the confidence that it will continue working for you no matter what happens.
The title is a bit ambiguous. From my understanding, Google (Firebase) acquired Fabric from Twitter (not necessarily "joining"). Fabric is one of the top dev tools I use for iOS. I wonder what kind of change is in store...
Fabric was a much better analytics tool than Google Analytics. It's better because: Instant crash reporting reduces release time anxiety. iTunes and Google analytics need 24 hour collection period. Fabric can offer Fastlane and Beta -- Toolkits that help deal with distributing builds to testers and releasing apps. Google has nothing to compete with here. Whatever way Fabric seem to define active users and sessions th…
The Fabric app makes the crash stats very easily accessible to all the relevant people. You are one tap away from them on your phone.
With GA it takes so much more effort to navigate your way to the crash stats.
As a result you respond to issues much more quickly and decisively with Crashlytics. At least that was our experience.
The title is a bit ambiguous. From my understanding, Google (Firebase) acquired Fabric from Twitter (not necessarily "joining"). Fabric is one of the top dev tools I use for iOS. I wonder what kind of change is in store...
Yes, you're right - it is an acquisition. Jeff Seibert clarifies in his tweet https://twitter.com/jeffseibert/status/821780349164388356
What does this mean for Twitter Digits? Will their free SMS authentications continue? It would be a perfect fit if they phased in Twitter Digits as a Firebase authentication provider - I suspect many developers (including myself) already use these 2 services in tandem.
I wonder what it costs to operate Twitter Digits. I can't imagine they are using Twilio as an SMS gateway.
What does this mean for Twitter Digits? Will their free SMS authentications continue? It would be a perfect fit if they phased in Twitter Digits as a Firebase authentication provider - I suspect many developers (including myself) already use these 2 services in tandem.
I wonder what it costs to operate Twitter Digits. I can't imagine they are using Twilio as an SMS gateway.
(I was an employee 2012–2016)
Knowing Google's reputation with abandoning developer tools and services, can anyone offer suggestions as to possible alternatives? Or counterpoints as to why I shouldn't fear this service degrading over the next year or two? We're currently using Fabric and Crashlytics for our iOS app where I work and this news has prompted us to research alternatives.
> [...] we expect that Crashlytics will become the main crash reporting offering for Firebase [...]
They will be integrating Crashlytics into their core developer offering, Firebase. Looks like if you are just using Fabric's Crashlytics service you will be ok. But there is more room to worry if you are using some of Fabric's other tools.