I set up Firebase crashlytics following's Google's instructions (https://firebase.google.com/docs/crashlytics/get-started?platform=android&authuser=1#add-sdk), then I purposely crashed the app in order to see something in the firebase console, as per https://firebase.google.com/docs/crashlytics/test-implementation?authuser=1&platform=android.; this page also suggests turning on the crashlytics debug logging, which I did. The logging ends with:
D/FirebaseCrashlytics(23841): Crashlytics is handling uncaught exception "java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com. ... .TabActivity}: java.lang.NumberFormatException: Invalid int: "abc"" from thread main
D/FirebaseCrashlytics(23841): Persisting fatal event for session 603B968F001F00015D21614184AB1DFB
D/FirebaseCrashlytics(23841): Finalizing report for session 603B968F001F00015D21614184AB1DFB
D/FirebaseCrashlytics(23841): Opening a new session with ID 603B9693009B00025D21614184AB1DFB
D/FirebaseCrashlytics(23841): Crashlytics automatic data collection ENABLED by global Firebase setting.
D/FirebaseCrashlytics(23841): Logging Crashlytics event to Firebase
D/FirebaseCrashlytics(23841): Awaiting app exception callback from FA...
D/FirebaseCrashlytics(23841): Received Analytics message: 3 Bundle[{params=Bundle[{_o=clx, _r=1, timestamp=1614517907044, fatal=1}], name=_ae, timestampInMillis=1614517907169}]
D/FirebaseCrashlytics(23841): App exception callback received from FA listener.
D/FirebaseCrashlytics(23841): Crashlytics report successfully enqueued to DataTransport: 603B968F001F00015D21614184AB1DFB
D/FirebaseCrashlytics(23841): Crashlytics completed exception processing. Invoking default exception handler.
According to this SO post, I should be expecting, after "Crashlytics report successfully enqueued to DataTransport", some lines like
TransportRuntime.CctTransportBackend: Making request to with subsequent
TransportRuntime.CctTransportBackend: Status Code: 200
But it wasn't there.
People also say it takes 24-48 hours for crash data to show up in the console, rather than "up to 5 minutes" like what Google says. But it is over 48 hours now.