Disable Firebase in development mode in Android

Question

I am using Firebase in my android project. Wanted to know how to disable it in development mode. All crashes and usage/events are being logged and messing up with actual analytics.

Any better way to disable this in development mode?

Solution 1

Checkout https://firebase.google.com/docs/analytics/configure-data-collection?platform=android

<meta-data android:name="firebase_analytics_collection_deactivated" android:value="true" />

To do this automatically add the following line to manifest:

 <meta-data
        android:name="firebase_analytics_collection_deactivated"
        android:value="@bool/FIREBASE_ANALYTICS_DEACTIVATED"/>

Set different value of boolean for debug and release in your app/build.gradle

buildTypes {
    debug {
        resValue("bool", "FIREBASE_ANALYTICS_DEACTIVATED", "true")
    }
    release {
        resValue("bool", "FIREBASE_ANALYTICS_DEACTIVATED", "false")
    }
}

Solution 2

Add this line to your manifest file while development.

<meta-data android:name="firebase_analytics_collection_deactivated" android:value="true" />

For more details check https://firebase.google.com/support/guides/disable-analytics

Solution 3

It would be better to separate your dev and prod environments instead of disabling things completely. You have options on how to implement this, so you can choose what suits your team the best. This blog post details your options: https://firebase.googleblog.com/2016/08/organizing-your-firebase-enabled-android-app-builds.html

Solution 4

    public class MyApp extends Application {
        public static boolean isDebuggable;

        public void onCreate() {
            super.onCreate();
            isDebuggable = (0 != (getApplicationInfo().flags & ApplicationInfo.FLAG_DEBUGGABLE));
            FirebaseCrash.setCrashCollectionEnabled(!isDebuggable);
        }
    }

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Comments

[ugur]

As far as i know only option to create 2 different projects for dev and prod environments

[Faisal Memon]

:( No better way?

[Frank van Puffelen]

That is the better way. But otherwise see stackoverflow.com/questions/37518212/…

[Leon]

Even better, add a property to Gradle to handle it automatically: resValue("bool", "FIREBASE_ANALYTICS_DEACTIVATED", "true") such as was suggested for Crashlytics here: stackoverflow.com/a/44452585/945247

[user924]

how to enable it back?

[Tom S]

Thanks! I also had to add tools:replace="android:value" to the AndroidManifest.xml part: (if using react-native-firebase) eg: <meta-data tools:replace="android:value" android:name="firebase_analytics_collection_deactivated" android:value="@bool/FIREBASE_ANALYTICS_DEACTIVATED"/>