Boost the Quality of Your App with Firebase
summary
Crashes drive one-star reviews — about 50% of one-star ratings mention stability — so use Firebase Test Lab to run Espresso instrumentation, Robo test crawls, or beta game loop scenarios across thousands of device images and virtual devices; Test Lab delivers logcat, stack traces, videos, screenshots and CPU/memory/network charts. Pre-launch report gives a free five‑minute robo for alpha/beta uploads; free tier is 10 virtual / 5 physical tests per day. Use Crashlytics integration for rich crash + analytics context, and Remote Config + Performance Monitoring (bytecode instrumentation for HTTP, automatic app‑start traces) to A/B and measure real user performance.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:44Firebase Test Lab overview
- 8:21Strict mode in testing
- 10:04Espresso test recorder
- 11:08Robo automated testing
- 13:56Game loop testing
- 16:22Running tests in Android Studio
- 17:04CI integration with Test Lab
- 18:08Pre-launch reports
- 19:08Crash reporting tools
- 23:02Performance monitoring basics
- 26:13Automatic traces and counters
- 28:41Pseudo automatic traces
- 31:10Android vitals and wake locks
- 33:13HTTP transaction monitoring
- 35:02Remote config for rollouts
- 39:33Performance testing with AB tests
- 40:16Q&A session
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