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PhoneGap By Example

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PhoneGap By Example

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
PhoneGap By Example
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

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...