3 ms·

I'm an iOS Developer working on a project that uses Fabric ad I -absolutely- hate it. Maybe something is wrong with our integration, but I hate the fact that an

I'm an iOS Developer working on a project that uses Fabric ad I -absolutely- hate it. Maybe something is wrong with our integration, but I hate the fact that any run of the XCode build runs the Fabric Mac app and you HAVE to have it running, or else your XCode build fails. This doesn't help when your Fabric app crashes sometimes or isn't seen by Xcode for some reason, so every now and then my Chrome browser will just re-direct me to Fabric's website to download the SDK and I'll have about 20 tabs open before force quitting & relauncing the app. I like the idea of housing a lot of useful dev tools together, but hate having such a large overhead around it to do so.

ProblemFactory 11y ago
I'm using Fabric for the Twitter SDK on Android, and it is just the same there. No, I don't want an IDE plugin that rewrites (read: messes up) my config files to "help" me install things. All I need is a website to generate API keys and a package URL to add to the dependencies file. The IDE plugin must have taken quite a bit of effort as well - not sure why and how someone at Twitter considered it to be a good idea. Perhaps a misguided attempt at "capturing developer mindshare" or the arrogant assumption that Twitter/Fabric SDKs are important parts of people's apps?
x1024 11y ago
Same. Is it that hard to just ship a library via CocoaPods? Google do it, Facebook does it. But nooo, Twitter is "speshul" and they just have to be able to drop multiple folders in the root of my project.
- ropiku 11y ago
  You can totally use CocoaPods to add and update Fabric https://docs.fabric.io/ios/fabric/cocoapods.html https://docs.fabric.io/ios/fabric/cocoapods.html. I'm not sure if this still requires the Fabric app but I didn't have issues with it.
stevewilber 11y ago
Hey, I work on Fabric and we recently added some new pages that could help. If you have trouble using our plugins with your project, check out our manual onboarding process at https://fabric.io/kits/ios/crashlytics/install https://fabric.io/kits/ios/crashlytics/install

ProblemFactory 11y ago

I'm using Fabric for the Twitter SDK on Android, and it is just the same there. No, I don't want an IDE plugin that rewrites (read: messes up) my config files to "help" me install things. All I need is a website to generate API keys and a package URL to add to the dependencies file. The IDE plugin must have taken quite a bit of effort as well - not sure why and how someone at Twitter considered it to be a good idea. Perhaps a misguided attempt at "capturing developer mindshare" or the arrogant assumption that Twitter/Fabric SDKs are important parts of people's apps?

x1024 11y ago

Same. Is it that hard to just ship a library via CocoaPods? Google do it, Facebook does it. But nooo, Twitter is "speshul" and they just have to be able to drop multiple folders in the root of my project.

ropiku 11y ago
You can totally use CocoaPods to add and update Fabric https://docs.fabric.io/ios/fabric/cocoapods.html https://docs.fabric.io/ios/fabric/cocoapods.html. I'm not sure if this still requires the Fabric app but I didn't have issues with it.

stevewilber 11y ago

Hey, I work on Fabric and we recently added some new pages that could help. If you have trouble using our plugins with your project, check out our manual onboarding process at https://fabric.io/kits/ios/crashlytics/install https://fabric.io/kits/ios/crashlytics/install