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...