Crashlytics error - This app relies on Crashlytics. Please sign up for access

Question

I have two build flavors in gradle but for some reason whenever i change the following flag to false i get the titled error message:

ext.enableCrashlytics = false 

the error itself complete is below:

Process: com.mobile.myapp.staging, PID: 5439 java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to create application com.mobile.myapp.UI.myappApplication: io.fabric.sdk.android.services.concurrency.UnmetDependencyException: This app relies on Crashlytics. Please sign up for access at https://fabric.io/sign_up, install an Android build tool and ask a team member to invite you to this app's organization. at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:4710) at android.app.ActivityThread.-wrap1(ActivityThread.java) at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1405) at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102) at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:148) at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5417) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:726) at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:616) Caused by: io.fabric.sdk.android.services.concurrency.UnmetDependencyException: This app relies on Crashlytics. Please sign up for access at https://fabric.io/sign_up, install an Android build tool and ask a team member to invite you to this app's organization. at com.crashlytics.android.core.CrashlyticsCore.onPreExecute(CrashlyticsCore.java:234) at com.crashlytics.android.core.CrashlyticsCore.onPreExecute(CrashlyticsCore.java:207) at io.fabric.sdk.android.InitializationTask.onPreExecute(InitializationTask.java:44) at io.fabric.sdk.android.services.concurrency.AsyncTask.executeOnExecutor(AsyncTask.java:611) at io.fabric.sdk.android.services.concurrency.PriorityAsyncTask.executeOnExecutor(PriorityAsyncTask.java:43) at io.fabric.sdk.android.Kit.initialize(Kit.java:69) at io.fabric.sdk.android.Fabric.initializeKits(Fabric.java:440) at io.fabric.sdk.android.Fabric.init(Fabric.java:384) at io.fabric.sdk.android.Fabric.setFabric(Fabric.java:342) at io.fabric.sdk.android.Fabric.with(Fabric.java:313) at com.mobile.myapp.UI.base.BaseApplication.setupExceptionHandling(BaseApplication.java:51) at com.mobile.myapp.UI.myappApplication.onCreate(myappApplication.java:45) at android.app.Instrumentation.callApplicationOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1013) at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:4707) 

And this is how I initialize crashlytics in my Application subclass:

Fabric.with(this, new Crashlytics()); 

what i am trying to do is have control over whether or not a crashlytics can run or not per flavor. lets say i want flavor1 not to run crashlytics i thought i could use that gradle flag and set it to false. am i missing something ?

Answer 1

Maybe missing apply plugin fabric

I added this line on top of file app/build.gradle resolved my issues!

apply plugin: 'io.fabric'

Answer 2

Whenever I set

ext.enableCrashlytics = false 

my app crashes with

io.fabric.sdk.android.services.concurrency.UnmetDependencyException  This app relies on Crashlytics. Please sign up for access at https://fabric.io/sign_up, install an Android build tool and ask a team member to invite you to this app's organization. 

What seems to work for me is that I have to disable automatic initialization of Crashlytics by adding this line to AndroidManifest.xml

<meta-data android:name="firebase_crashlytics_collection_enabled" android:value="false" /> 

Then I manually initialize Crashlytics in the onCreate() method of my Application subclass, use BuildConfig.DEBUG to decide whether to disable CrashlyticsCore, and call Fabric.with(). In fact, I no longer set

ext.enableCrashlytics = false 

at all. It all seems to work to me.