I haven't made it public yet (i will at some point), but i have a similar system for my apps.
The process of my activities registers itself by calling Thread.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler(uncaughtXcptHandler) and binds to service that i wrote that runs in a different process (since my app will be dying because of an exception, it's tricky to properly handle the exception in the dying process itself). Then in the uncaughtXcptHandler.void uncaughtException(Thread t, Throwable e), I write out an error-log file with the stack-trace and some other info. Then i call an asynchronous method on my service that will pop up a dialog allowing the user to send me the error report or not. If the user clicks 'Yes', then the error-log file is read and sent to my webserver. My webserver then sends me an e-mail. This way, users can remain anonymous (no e-mail/reply address necessary). I let my app die immediately after calling the asynchronous method. If my app couldn't bind to the service for any reason, the old and trusted force-close message from Android is shown instead. On Feb 25, 3:10 pm, focuser <linto...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi fellow Android developers, > > How many times have you asked users to send you the logcat result to > track down a nasty force-close? How many users have actually replied? > > It's not that users are lazy or busy. Having to run the "logcat" > command or download an external log collector app just means too much > trouble for them. It should be much simpler. It should be just one > tap. > > In fact I'm surprised (or being ignorant) that an easier error > reporting mechanism has not existed yet in the Android API, especially > for the infamous force-close. That is why I coded and open-sourced > "Android, send me logs!", a small code library that makes it easy to > detect force-close and send logs from within your own apps. You can > program it to report errors with just one tap, and also include your > own tracing information. > > Please check it out athttp://code.google.com/p/android-send-me-logs/. > It's still in very early stage, and I would appreciate your critism, > suggestions, comments, or even code contributions. > > Linton Ye -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
