Re: [android-developers] Re: Crash dumps - Market vs Homegrown

2010-06-25 Thread Tomáš Hubálek
Not sure about 2.x versions but I'm sure that my 1.6 does not support it. And there is till about 50% devices running 1.x versions. Tom On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Lance Nanek lna...@gmail.com wrote: I‘ve seen Android's built-in crash report option on my Nexus One running 2.1-update1,

[android-developers] Re: Crash dumps - Market vs Homegrown

2010-06-24 Thread Tomáš Hubálek
Nathan, I belive that homegrown (eg. ACRA - http://code.google.com/p/acra/) is must untl Froyo and newer become majority. Correct me if I'm wrong but on older version of Android there is no way how to get info about errors. BTW: I'm using ACRA in all my apps and it made my apps much better.

[android-developers] Re: Crash dumps - Market vs Homegrown

2010-06-24 Thread MobDev
afaik not ALL existing devices will get an update to Froyo, so yes I guess there is still use for ACRA ! On 24 jun, 12:08, Tomáš Hubálek tom.huba...@gmail.com wrote: Nathan, I belive that homegrown (eg. ACRA -http://code.google.com/p/acra/) is must untl Froyo and newer become majority. Correct

Re: [android-developers] Re: Crash dumps - Market vs Homegrown

2010-06-24 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
There is one other important benefit to homegrown solutions: they can provide more information than just the stack trace. Not all problems are crashes or ANRs, and even then, not all of them can be understood by looking at a stack trace. Building app-specific logs with relevant info on e.g.

RE: [android-developers] Re: Crash dumps - Market vs Homegrown

2010-06-24 Thread Paul Gee
- From: android-developers@googlegroups.com [mailto:android-develop...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kostya Vasilyev Sent: 24 June 2010 16:04 To: android-developers@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [android-developers] Re: Crash dumps - Market vs Homegrown There is one other important benefit

[android-developers] Re: Crash dumps - Market vs Homegrown

2010-06-24 Thread Lance Nanek
I‘ve seen Android's built-in crash report option on my Nexus One running 2.1-update1, so it isn't limited to just Froyo, at least. That said, it does require the user to manually press the report and then send buttons after a crash. I imagine an automatic system that requires no work on the user's

[android-developers] Re: Crash dumps - Market vs Homegrown

2010-06-24 Thread Nathan
Thanks everyone. If market solution doesn't occur for every device, that's reason enough to have a homegrown solution. The other reason would be to interact with the customer and potentially get more information. Of course, I've found that most customers will hit send and not add additional

[android-developers] Re: Crash dumps - Market vs Homegrown

2010-06-24 Thread Kevin Gaudin
@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [android-developers] Re: Crash dumps - Market vs Homegrown There is one other important benefit to homegrown solutions: they can provide more information than just the stack trace. Not all problems are crashes or ANRs, and even then, not all of them can be understood