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Matthew Housser
Matthew Housser

Reputation: 1012

Do I need to add gradle import in Android Studio for Fabric Answers if I'm already using Crashlytics?

Android Studio, Gradle, Fabric Crashlytics - we've got a pretty common setup. We have the usual compile line in build.gradle:

compile('com.crashlytics.sdk.android:crashlytics:2.6.5@aar') {
    transitive = true;
}

And in our Application sub-class, the instantiating line:

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

All good. Working for a long time. Now we want to use Fabric Answers.

Here's the confusing part - if I edit the instantiating line to this:

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

.. it works. I was expecting that I would need to add the following to build.gradle, as their installation docs recommend:

compile('com.crashlytics.sdk.android:answers:1.3.10@aar') {
    transitive = true;
}

But the Answers class seems to be found with or without this import.

So, I guess my questions:

  1. Do I need both Gradle compile entries? Or is com.crashlytics.sdk.android:crashlytics:2.6.5@aar a super-set that already includes Answers?
  2. Is Fabric.with(this, new Crashlytics(), new Answers()); the correct way to instantiate things when I want both Crashlytics + Answers?

I'm using both Gradle imports, but it just seemed to compile OK even if I didn't have the second one. Kinda confused why.

Thanks!

UPDATE

As the accepted answer states, having Fabric.with(this, new Crashlytics()); alone is enough.

Digging into the Crashlytics class, it looks like it actually instantiates a few things:

this(new Answers(), new Beta(), new CrashlyticsCore());

.. so there you go! The extra Gradle import + Fabric instantiation argument are superfluous.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 114

Answers (1)

joelreeves
joelreeves

Reputation: 1954

You don't need to explicitly add the Answers dependency to the build.gradle file since it's already included by default with Fabric. So your first line is fine Fabric.with(this, new Crashlytics());

Upvotes: 2

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