Re: [android-developers] Debugging beta apps

2013-02-22 Thread Kevin Gaudin
Hi, I am the first one troubled by the change in Google Forms and discontinuing its use as a backend for ACRA's reports. Using these Forms was the single original idea at the root of the project. Now, as it is some sort of hack, I have always been wondering about how long it would be possible

Re: [android-developers] Debugging beta apps

2013-02-18 Thread Indicator Veritatis
It appears Guy misread the note. It has happened to lots of people on lots of issues. The note really is not talking about discontinuing ACRA, but about discontinuing storage of the ACRA report results as spreadsheets on Google Drive. This leaves us free to continue to use ACRA, as long we find

Re: [android-developers] Debugging beta apps

2013-02-18 Thread Kristopher Micinski
Apart from Google docs being phased out as a delivery platform, there are good reasons to keep your crash reports elsewhere: - You can archive and control them more readily - You can run all sorts of analysis on them: + I have code which hashes reports to group them by issue + Triage reports

Re: [android-developers] Debugging beta apps

2013-02-18 Thread Guy Smith
Actually, Guy is guilty of sloppy phrasing. I was thinking it seemed like the no-cost and low set-up backend was going. For me, not having to arrange storage was an attraction of ACRA. Apologies to those who have contributed to ACRA. On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 9:08:22 AM UTC+10, Indicator

Re: [android-developers] Debugging beta apps

2013-02-17 Thread Guy Smith
There are two parts to this. One, you need to get stack dumps back from your app. Two, you need to find testers. I set up testing in December. ACRA is essentially being phased out (IMHO) - see https://github.com/ACRA/acra/wiki/Notice-on-Google-Form-Spreadsheet-usage. There are several tools

Re: [android-developers] Debugging beta apps

2013-02-17 Thread Mark Murphy
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Guy Smith g...@multiniche.org wrote: ACRA is essentially being phased out (IMHO) - see https://github.com/ACRA/acra/wiki/Notice-on-Google-Form-Spreadsheet-usage. You are welcome to your opinion, but there are plenty of ACRA back-ends available, including ACRA's

Re: [android-developers] Debugging beta apps

2013-02-16 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:37 PM, njman njso...@gmail.com wrote: How do people test their beta apps - i.e. released to a few testers - getting back app crashed doesn't help. Can users send back a log file and/or stack trace. Use something like ACRA get logs and traces of what your app is

[android-developers] Debugging beta apps

2013-02-15 Thread njman
How do people test their beta apps - i.e. released to a few testers - getting back app crashed doesn't help. Can users send back a log file and/or stack trace. Also, I was planning to use asserts. is java assert recommended or the Assert class. I noticed that latter does not display a message on

[android-developers] Debugging beta apps

2013-02-15 Thread dashman
How do users debug their beta apps - once it's released to users. I'd like to get a better feedback than 'app crashed. Can users send back log files etc. I was thinking about using ASSERT. Is the java assert feature recommended or the Assert class. I noticed that the latter does not display a