Expert Catcher SetUp For Flutter Apps

Fred Grott
4 min readJul 11, 2021

In Flutter, we use the Catcher plugin to integrate with Sentry, Crashanalytics, Slack, etc. to collect and send app crash reports. Since I just sent a correction to the Catcher Example as a patch, I am probably the best one to explain how to set up to use this Catcher plugin.

The Plugins

Catcher

Firebase Crashanalytics

Sentry dependency is already included with Catcher but Firebase Crashanalytics is not, so you need to include it if using the crash analytics features. To install Catcher in your pubspec:

dependencies:catcher: ^0.6.7

If you need Firebase Crashanalytics features of Catcher then to install Firebase Crashanalytics in the pubspec it’s:

dependencies:

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