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  • Twitter’s Crashlytics Gets Velocity Alerts

    Twitter’s Crashlytics Gets Velocity Alerts

    Twitter’s Crashlytics announced the launch of Velocity Alerts, which are designed to alert app developers about the most critical issues happening in their apps so they know when they really need to take action ASAP.

    For the alerts, they combine your app’s crash data with usage analytics from Answers, the mobile analytics tool added to Crashlytics a couple years ago.

    “Now, once you’ve enabled Answers as part of Crashlytics, our system will proactively check to see if there is a statistically significant number of sessions that have ended due to a crash related to one issue on a particular build,” writes Jason St. Pierre on the Crashlytics blog. “If so, we’ll let you know if that issue is a hot patch candidate and needs your attention immediately right on your dashboard. You’ll also get an email alert in your inbox as well as a push notification if you’re using the Fabric mobile app (Android support coming soon). With Crashlytics, you’ll never miss a critical bug!”

    Notification emails have also been redesigned to make important information more clear and actionable.

    Images via Crashlytics

  • Twitter’s Crashlytics Launches ‘Answers’

    Twitter’s Crashlytics Launches ‘Answers’

    Twitter’s Crashlytics announced a new project called Answers by Crashlytics, described as “mobile analytics you don’t need to analyze”.

    Twitter acquired Crashlytics early last year. This past May, it launched a beta testing tool, which it says can be used along with Answers to comprise a “lightweight” swuite of products to help developers build and grow their apps.

    Here’s a look at the Dashboard:

    The company explains the “you don’t need to analyze” thing:

    Once enabled, Answers by Crashlytics intelligently analyzes and learns your app’s behavior and begins delivering live data within minutes. We know you’re busy, and we’ve built Answers with that in mind. You no longer need to don a lab coat and pull out a calculator to understand what’s going on. We look at the long-term trend and understand that there are certain metrics that are cyclical, so we’ll proactively alert you when a pattern is truly abnormal.

    You’re constantly pushing out new features and bug fixes, so you’ll want to understand how your top builds compare and how users are engaging with your latest build. View build adoption over time to see the stability of each build with a breakdown of session length and crash-free users per build.

    With the new offering Crashlytics aims to give developers a closer look at true user retention and app stability. More details here.

    Image via Crashlytics

  • Twitter’s Crashlytics Launches Beta Testing Tool

    Twitter’s Crashlytics announced a new beta distribution tool aimed at helping developers simplify the process of sharing apps with testers. They’re releasing it to iOS and Android developers after keeping it as a Crashlytics Labs project.

    Now, it’s fully supported by the company’s engineers, designers, user experience staff, and support team. It includes a rapid release cycle, the company says.

    In a blog post, Crashlytics says:

    We’ve heard your frustrations about the state of beta distribution today. Poor UI, confusing registration systems, frequent downtime, and only single-OS support. It’s time to build something usable with both developers and testers in mind.

    We applied our Crashlytics power and polish to this problem. The result: a streamlined experience for distributing apps that gives you a single, cross-platform toolset for iOS and Android. Beta distribution should be an intuitive process for you and your testers so you can focus on what matters — building your app, not stressing about getting testers up and running.

    Twitter acquired Crashlytics about a year and a half ago. Earlier this month, the reporting tool for mobile app crashes hit Mac OS X.

    Image via Crashlytics

  • Twitter’s Crashlytics Hits Mac OS X

    Last year, Twitter acquired Crashlytics, a reporting tool for mobile app crashes. The company has kept the service alive as promised. The co-founders said at the time that development would continue, and it has.

    Today, Crashlytics announced that it is expanding beyond iOS and Android apps, and into Mac apps. Apparently they’ve had a lot of requests for a solution that supports both iOS and Mac. This is their answer.

    In a post on the Crashlytics blog (via TNW), co-founder Wayne Chang writes:

    At Crashlytics, our passion has always been to deliver the most powerful developer tools, so that you only need to focus on building awesome apps. Even after opening access to our Beta Distribution service in February, we managed to have a little downtime and kept ourselves busy experimenting in Crashlytics Labs. Now, we’re excited to announce our latest Labs project: Crashlytics for OS X.

    Our new support for OS X apps provides the same award-winning experience that you’ve come to expect from us, starting with the seamless install experience to the actionable insights, down to the exact line of code that caused your Mac app to crash. With easy-to-digest stack traces and an upgraded settings dashboard, you can seamlessly manage all your apps under one roof. We’ve been privately testing our Mac support with hundreds of developers, and we’re very thankful to everyone who’s given us feedback.

    The company says it will continue to enhance the current functionalities.

    Earlier this year, Crashlytics launched a beta app distribution tool.

    Image via Crashlytics

  • Crashlytics Becomes Part Of Twitter

    Crashlytics Becomes Part Of Twitter

    Twitter has acquired Crashlytics, a reporting tool for mobile app crashes. Twitter confirmed this via Twitter, and Crashlytics took to its blog to announce the news. Co-founders Jeff Seibert and Wayne Chang write:

    We started Crashlytics a little over a year ago to address a huge hole in mobile app development. With hundreds of millions of devices in use around the world, it was impossible for developers to fully test every edge-case and catch every bug before release. Even worse, when problems did crop up, it was often difficult and complicated to find the root cause. App developers were stuck with little insight into what happened and forced to rely on vague end-user feedback to diagnose problems.

    We built Crashlytics to deliver the world’s most powerful and lightest-weight crash reporting solution. With us, developers gain instant visibility into the precise line of code that caused a crash, enabling them to more easily fix issues. Since our iOS launch, we’ve had the privilege of working with thousands of incredible app developers, from those building independent passion-projects to many of the top iOS apps available today – Twitter, Vine, Yelp, Kayak, TaskRabbit, and Waze, to name just a few.

    From the sound of it, Twitter will keep the Crashlytics product alive. Development of Crashlytics will continue, according to the co-founders.

    Terms of the deal were not disclosed.