Adding Crashlytics to a Jetpack Compose app

Part three of the Make It So Android app series explains how to integrate Firebase Crashlytics into a Jetpack Compose application to automatically capture, upload, and group fatal and non-fatal errors by factors such as device, operating system, app version, and severity. It covers adding the required Firebase dependencies and Gradle plugin, testing the setup by forcing a runtime crash, and creating a LogService abstraction that records exceptions through Crashlytics. The article also demonstrates using CoroutineExceptionHandler instances in ViewModels to log unexpected coroutine errors and, where appropriate, show user-friendly Snackbar messages through a centralized SnackbarManager backed by StateFlow. To reduce repeated error-handling code, it introduces a shared MakeItSoViewModel base class with reusable handlers for logging errors alone or both logging and displaying them. The next installment will cover using Cloud Firestore to store and synchronize to-do items in real time, while noting that the demonstrated version uses callbacks and later versions replace them with Kotlin Coroutines and Flow.

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