[Question] Can we use crashlytics without googleservice json and plist?

[Thaina]

• Unity editor version: 2020.2.6
• Firebase Unity SDK version: 7.1.0
• Source you installed the SDK:UPM
• Problematic Firebase Component: Crashlytics
• Other Firebase Components in use: Auth, FireStore, Analytics
• Additional SDKs you are using: Facebook, AdMob, OneSignal
• Platform you are using the Unity editor on: Windows
• Platform you are targeting: iOS, Android
• Scripting Runtime: IL2CPP

I try to build app that could switch firebase project when restart the app. So I don't want to include googleservice file into the build and want to create firebaseapp at runtime. However it seem Crashlytics trying to access those files in build process and cause build to fail. Is it anyway possible to do it?

[vimanyu]

Hi @Thaina,
It will help us debug if you could provide more information.
I tried building the Unity Crashlytics quickstart example without google-services.json and it built just fine.

Here is what I tried,

• Open the (Crashlytics unity quickstart) [https://github.com/firebase/quickstart-unity/tree/master/crashlytics/testapp] project in Unity 2020.1.7f1 and installed Firebase Crashlytics 7.1.0 unitypackage
• Open "Assets/Firebase/Sample/Crashlytics/MainScene" in Unity and set "Build Settings" platform to Android.
• Hit "Build" and the apk built without google-services.json
• Check "Export Project" and the Android project was again exported without build errors.

Are you able to reproduce this problem in the quickstart and what is the error during the build?

[Thaina]

@vimanyu Sorry for some misinformation

• android can be built without google-services.json but it was throwing error at runtime, maybe not related to crashlytics, I might try again some other times
• ios was not able to build without GoogleService-Info.plist at all

[cynthiajoan]

Hi @Thaina, I checked with the team. Since crashlytics is fully integrated into Firebase, so the google service json and plist file will be a requirement for projects to use it. The firebase setup is a precondition for crashlytics setup.

[Thaina]

@cynthiajoan Thank you. Then is it possible to change this? Can crashlytics be initialized and specified main project at runtime?

If it is I would like to have this issue as feature request