The search giant Google has acquired Twitter's Fabric, a service that help developer to build, test, deploy and maintain apps.
Fabric was launched in 2014 with a goal "to provide the best tools to help developers create amazing apps." Since then, it has evolved from a suite of tools for mobile developers into a platform that can help an entire team of developers to build apps and understand their users. In just two years, Fabric was able to reach 2.5 billion mobile devices.
Fabric's main products are the Crashlytics and Answers.
By acquiring Fabric, Google is becoming the company that provides Fabric, Crashlytics, Answers, and associated beta products under new terms. The team at Fabric is joining Google's Developer Products Group and work alongside the Firebase team.
Fabric saw Google as a company with the same mission: helping mobile teams to build better apps ad to make them better in understanding their users.
Twitter in selling Fabric is also seen as a way to slim down its troubling times, as well as helping it to reduce overheads as the company strives to become self-sustaining. By selling it, Twitter is losing most of the partnership it had with developer's communities at large.
