Using Fabric and Crashlytics

Nowadays, in the world where mobile devices have become a trending platform and form-factor, we need focus on analytics and crash reporting for the mobile applications.

We can use the Fabric tool for these needs.

Fabric is a modular SDK platform that allows easier builds of mobile applications. It includes:

• Integration into the Xcode workspace

• Xcode launcher

• Crashlytics—crash reporting, beta distribution, and mobile analytics

• Twitter kit

Crashlytics is a really lightweight crash-reporting solution. Let's look at how we can use it on a Cordova iOS application example. I will take the Imaginary application in this case.

After registration on the Fabric site (https://fabric.io), we will be requested to download and install the Fabric plugin:

We will select the Xcode option here and click on the Download button in the following screen:

Once it is downloaded, we can install and launch it. After that, we can log in with the registered Fabric account, and we will see that it...