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Crash Reporting with Firebase

Mitchell Bryson edited this page Aug 5, 2026 · 6 revisions

Crash reporting with Firebase

Deprecated: The standalone Firebase Crash Reporting SDK (com.google.firebase:firebase-crash) described on this page has been retired and replaced by Firebase Crashlytics (com.google.firebase:firebase-crashlytics). For current setup instructions, follow the Crash Reporting with Crashlytics guide, which covers the supported Firebase Crashlytics SDK end-to-end.

Historical note

Firebase Crash Reporting was announced as one of the original features of the rebranded Firebase at Google I/O 2016. It was a Beta product that shipped as the com.google.firebase:firebase-crash Android library, exposed a small reporting API (FirebaseCrash.report(...), FirebaseCrash.log(...), and the logcat-aware FirebaseCrash.logcat(...)), and surfaced grouped "clusters" of similar stack traces on its own console dashboard, with optional ProGuard mapping.txt uploads for deobfuscated traces.

The product never left Beta. After Google acquired Fabric and rebuilt Crashlytics as Firebase Crashlytics, the standalone Crash Reporting SDK and dashboard were retired in Crashlytics' favor — see the Firebase blog post It's Time to Upgrade to the New Firebase Crashlytics SDK! for the transition timeline. The last firebase-crash artifact published to the Google Maven repository was version 16.2.1 (May 2018), and the original documentation pages at firebase.google.com/docs/crash/android now redirect to the Crashlytics product docs. The setup walkthrough this page once carried (pinning firebase-crash:9.0.0) has been removed because none of it can produce a working integration today.

For everything this SDK used to do — automatic crash capture, non-fatal exception reporting, custom logs, and deobfuscated stack traces — use Firebase Crashlytics instead, starting from this wiki's Crash Reporting with Crashlytics guide or the official Get started with Firebase Crashlytics documentation.

Attribution

This guide was originally drafted by Segun Famisa, and later trimmed to a historical note after the Firebase Crash Reporting product was retired.

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