Is there a filter available to remove a specific device or a specific Crash from firebase crashlytics?
I have been getting a crash and i want Firebase to ignore it, From the list as well as the Analyitcs above.
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Hoping for help!!
There is an option to close or mute selected issues, you can use one of this options depending on what you need. Then, when using the filter Issue state = "Open" those won't show up in the list. Check this screenshot:
However, this will affect only the issue list, it doesn't affect the stats. Especially the Crash-Free Users because this information comes from Analytics and not from Crashlytics. Check this response for reference.
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I am new to Firebase Analytics and I went through some online tutorials to learn about it. I have a simple 'Notes' app (Android) in market, which allow users to create and save notes offline on their device.
It would be great, if I could get a total number of notes that have been created till date with my app. I know, I can add an event which will notify Firebase when user creates a new note, but what about the existing notes that are present in the database?
Is there any way to get such statistics through Firebase Analytics?
UPDATE:
I have included a user property as notes_count, but I am not able to find a way to see the total. How to do it?
You could set a user property with the number of notes the user has created instead of or in addition to logging the event. You are limited to 25 different user properties total though, so use them with care.
I am trying to create an experiment using Firebase remote config.
The criteria is as follows:
It should target only new users who have not used the app ( opening the app for the first time)
Now on further research I found that there is a user property as below:
However, this is not available in the experiment window or a similar property that fulfils the above criteria in the Firebase console as seen below:
I can only see the user properties set by my code. One way I can think of is to use one of my custom user property which is not yet set (but set to a value like null), but I don't know how I can do this.
References
https://support.google.com/firebase/answer/6317486?hl=en
https://firebase.googleblog.com/2016/10/better-user-targeting-with-firebase.html
I will share our experience with experiments for new users and how the different combinations of targeting work because we worked with it a lot already. You can skip the investigation part if you're not interested and just check the solution that we use now.
Our Investigations Part:
Firstly, when we integrated Firebase, we were afraid that Audiences won't work properly for experiments targeting cuz all current users will be treated as new ones after integration, so we checked several approaches and went with an approach of creating specific User Properties that we specified on the client side differently for old/new users. For instance, we created a User Property called adv_experiment_enrolled and specified on client side values 'enrolled'/'not_enrolled', so all new users after installation of this version became 'enrolled' and old ones after updating the version just became 'not_enrolled'. And we just used that User Property as targeting in an experiment. That worked well, but it wasn't a general approach that we could use easily for all experiments and we needed to create User Properties for each new experiment.
So we've tried the Audiences approach after few months of integration that was what #jackes described here with First Open Time user property:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/50075684/2723437
And we've got several problems, first of all, seems they had some troubles with populating of that kind of audience and just ~3-5% of new users were getting there. We also created an Audience depending on First Open event itself and used it too, it was populating better and was close to the real number of installs that we had. But we've noticed problems with this approach as well and the biggest one was that an experiment had only 20-30% of users from that Audience. We tested it and noticed by some of our metrics that seems users are not enrolled in this experiment in their first session cuz 1) Firebase takes some time to enroll a user in the Audience and 2) Remote Config has 12h cache by default, so it wasn't really a data for most of the new installations.
A solution that seems to work well for now:
We were surprised with that Firebase does have User Property for First Open Time, but doesn't allow to use this as the targeting for experiments (It would be very helpful to solve this problem tbh), so we just decided to try our good experience with User Property targeting and apply the general approach First Open Time user property, so we've created our own custom_first_open_time especially to target installations after some specific time (we just used current timestamps for platforms in seconds).
Important notes:
- You have to set up user properties before loading a remote config.
- You have to keep this first open time on the client side persistently once you generated it (usually you use NSUserDefaults/SharedPreferences for iOS/Android for that)
Sample of experiment configuration:
Didn't tried, but it should work. Create an Audience in Firebase Console with following condition: First Open Time is greater than or equal to some date. Where the date should be the next day after you starting an experiment.
For example I expect this kind of situation: data in my application lost relevance and so it usless until update. And until update it have to show users some predefined message.
Is here any simple and free solution to this task?
Guess I can use some server to somehow send simple messages... but it sounds way too complicated.
If this is important I use Xamarin.
Update: main difficulty here is fact - my application can't in any way define if it's outdated or not. This may happen in random moment.
Although the requirement is not very clear I assume Update here means app update.
each time user launches app make call to an api on ur server to check if user needs to update app
If that returns true take user to a static view that says app needs update and redirects user to google play to install updates
If you want to avoid using a server, you should try Firebase (https://firebase.google.com/). More specifically, you should use Firebase Remote Config (https://firebase.google.com/features/remote-config/).
Define in a key-value pair of something like minimum_app_version_required in Firebase Remote Config. Every time user opens the your app, compare the values of app version and minimum_app_version_required that you are getting from Firebase console and show a dialog box accordingly. You can also change the value of minimum_app_version_required anytime you want.
Just set some internal flag. That when that situation occurs, you can set the flag to true and just edit whatever layout element you are using such as listView or any other element with your predefined messages saved in strings.xml. You can also build any custom pop up screen, depends how you want to show them. Let me know if you didn't understand or exactly how you want?
Need to implement versioning for this problem. To achieve this, you have to maintain a version number in server, this is the version number you app will have to save and use it to validate with server. If both are not same, then app will get the latest data from the server.
Currently we can use logcat or ask other testers to send logcat files. But What i want as to see logs when app is on play store. So let's say if any request contact us for some problem that he is facing. Then it would be easier for us to see that user's device logs and figure out the issue. Because some issues are not easily reproducible.
Is there a way I can get the logs of device which i don't have a physically access to using some tool when the app is on play store?
EDIT
I don't want use in a way where user has to upload logs files and manually send it to our team. It should display live log on a website or provider's console.
You can track logs with Google Analytics. Just send trackers to analytics on the places you usually send logs.(You must initialize tracker first. See link below)
Example :
Tracker defaultTracker = GoogleAnalytics.getInstance(this).getDefaultTracker();
defaultTracker.send(MapBuilder.createEvent("Logger", "Log_Tag",
"Log_msg", null).build());
And you will get a event group in the Behaviour section of google analytics called Logger that has list of Log_Tags that has List of Log_msg
It is pretty easy to implement. See this link on how to add Google Analytics to your app https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/android/v3/
Hope this helps you.
You need a custom Log service to store the important logs/errors
From your app if any crashes or important Logs you send it Log server for future reference.
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You should try Crashlytics
Crashlytics for Android delivers real-time crash reporting across all devices. We perform a deep analysis of each stack trace to identify the most important frames and we break down every bug by device model and version so you can spend less time finding and more time fixing issues.
What if "NETWORK" is not available when your app crashed on users device to update/send a crash report to you.
For me,
1.) I will get Crash Reports when User hits "Report to developer" at the time of crash.
2.) I use Google Analytics, to get the description of the app with location(which line of code) of error from "Crashes and Exceptions" under "Behaviour" tab.
Also, by modifying/adding your Google Analytics Code, as mentioned here: Crashes & Exceptions
Try your Luck!
You can use Log4j library in android.
What is Log4j library?
It is an logger library in java. And it allow the application to write logs in to your file, email when caught exceptions and can send logs in background to your server or any else. So that you can see the logs of every individual device and track the issues.
download it from the below link:
Log4j for android
Hope it will help you.
Currently I'm using ACRA.
The official link contains all details you need and offers different way of "User interaction mode", "Reports destination" and "Reports content".
If you implement it very well on your app, you can have a full report of what is happening.
Keeping in mind few things u can do it :-
create log files.
store them in your applications private area and not in sdcard ( to avoid deletion by user
or if on sdcard then use . before directory to hide it from user )
keep a service running at the background.
start uploading the document after every hour or when app moves in the background or the
file size increase >10 kb etc... depends upon choice. and remember to upload all files
in this directory.
if uploads successfully delete dat file else leave it which will be uploaded next time.
try to implement zip to make single file if file count is gr8er then 5 suppose.
In a nutshell :-
a. record.
b. zip
c. upload
c. delete.
this is my view remember
Is there a way I can control what contact list and messages show? I want to make an app that if enabled will hide certain contacts or messages from certain people. I am not sure of this is doable
Please let me know if this can be done programmatically. Please note that I am referring to the default contact/messages APP that comes with android and I want to be able to control what it shows from my app
Thank you
Please note that I am referring to the default contact/messages APP that comes with android and I want to be able to control what it shows from my app
Fortunately, this is not possible, except by modifying the actual data, as noted in a comment on your question. You cannot hack into other apps like some script kiddie.
Note that, due to synchronization, deleting contacts may wind up deleting them from an upstream data source. The user may not appreciate this.
You are welcome to build your own contact app that maintains its own filtered list of contacts.