Fabric to Firebase Migration 2020
Fabric is going away on March 31, 2020! If you currently use Fabric, now is the time to seamlessly transition to Firebase and start taking advantage of Firebase’s extra features. This page outlines the transition fairly well, and this may be enough for you to get started!
This short post walks you through the migration process, and what to look for.
Before you get started, make sure that you have permission to migrate the app. You need to be a Fabric Admin in order to do the migration. You can check if you have permission by signing into your account at the bottom of this page.
Step 1: Go to Migration Home Dashboard.
Check Migration Status here.
You should see a list of apps that you’ve already migrated (if any), and a button that says “Migrate apps” to start migration.
The process for this is fairly intuitive. Just drag over the project you want to migrate, and let it do its job! You may want to create a new project for each app that you migrate, based on how your projects are usually set up.
Once the migration is done, you should be able to go back to the migration page to see if your project is listed under Migrated Firebase apps.
Step 2: Check off the migration checklist.
Go to Firebase Console and select your specific project.
On the top right corner, you will see a button called “Migration Checklist”
This takes you to an entire list with step-by-step instructions that you can start checking off:
These are all very straightforward, and each section has instructions.
Step 3: Make sure everything works as intended.
That’s it! Just make sure you’re getting information in Firebase for crash data, or Google analytics data if you’ve set that up as well.
Resources:
Once this is finished, you may want to set up your App Distribution in Firebase to use automated builds from Jenkins Pipeline. If so, check out this post.
