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I never heard about Fabric. Can't seem to understand what they do from their website. There is no mention of what it does on the home page. Is this some sort of an analytics library?

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It's the result of Crashlytics, a crash reporting library, being acquihired by Twitter. Now it's bundled with the Twitter SDKs and Twitter's ad network integration. I'm not affiliated with it, but have written several comments about it [1]

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=niftich%20fabric&sort=byDate&p...

The branding is very confusing and ends up adding a bunch of buzzwords instead of explaining what it is.

On a side note, why do people use closed source Crashlytics, when there are open source solutions available (still run by for profit companies, but source of their SDKs are open)?

It's really quite a nice crash reporting product. I think that outweighs the closed-source point for a lot of folks.

Totally agree. Once you get used to it, it's very well done and great UI.

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