Twitter Fabric

Marco Arment's thoughts on this seem somewhat germane here:

Especially at Twitter. Twitter started out as a developer-friendly company, then they became a developer-hostile company, and now they’re trying to be a developer-friendly company again. If I had to pick a company to have absolute power over something very important, Twitter wouldn’t be very high on the list.

They’re not obsessed with messing with developers’ heads — we’re just innocent bystanders getting hit whenever this fundamentally insecure, jealous, unstable company changes direction, which happens every few years. Twitter is never happy being Twitter, and it seems at times that its leadership doesn’t realize or doesn’t value what makes it so great. (Ever wonder why there’s so much leadership turnover?) And they’re now under the financial pressures of being a high-profile public company. It’s a powder keg.

Maybe they’ll tell us how great we are this week and they won’t burn us again. And I’m sure the people saying that on stage at their conference will honestly believe that. But it’s only a matter of time before those people move on to different jobs, Twitter’s direction changes again, and developers suddenly find themselves in the wrong quadrant of the newest initiative.

(from http://www.marco.org/2014/10/20/wsj-twitter-peace-offering)

I've used Crashlytics (on Android via IntelliJ) in the past and it's been a blast. Just plain awesome and straightforward to use. I'm assuming that they've extended the Crashlytics "installer" to also support the other platforms. If that#s the case - awesome! Will definitely use this in the future as it makes this kind of integration just straightforward (including the various AndroidManifest.xml setups, build.gradle entries, etc!)

I'm sure this is probably helpful.... but there is too much marketing fluff on this page for me to really understand what it is.

"...installing and managing a wide range of SDKs can be cumbersome and complex"

This is true not just within the Twitter ecosystem, but the entire API/SDK economy. Nice to see Twitter recognize this issue and do something about it.