Keep Android Studio debug crashes out of Google Play Developer Console?

Question

It seems crashes from development started appearing in my Google Play Developer Console.

Sometimes scaring me quite a bit until I realize these are from debugging and not production crashes.

Is there a way to keep crashes that happen while I am developing out of the Google Play Developer Console reporting?

I am also slightly considered about these debug crashes getting reported considering Google is going to start down ranking apps that crash a lot soon.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/03/google-play-will-now-downrank-poorly-performing-apps/

Answer 1

The Developer Console only reports crashes from published version numbers (either in alpha, beta or production).

So my solution is very simple:

1. After publishing a new version, the first thing I do is increase the versionCode in the manifest. And I only use this version number while developing. This way, no crash is sent to the console.
2. Then, when I'm ready to publish again, I increase the versionCode once more. This way I make sure new crashes will only come from the published version.

EDIT:

As pointed out in the comments, crashes from unpublished versions will still appear on the console under the 'All versions' option. So take this answer as a way to identify and filter those crashes, not to prevent them from being logged.