Cool idea. I will definately use this in my next project. Thanks. On Mar 4, 11:11 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > Wayne Wenthin wrote: > > Yeah the rest of us are really interested in your good fortune. > > > Honestly if the market were worth its salt there wouldn't be angry > > customers because we developers that are trying could actually > > communicate with the 1 stars out there that just say crap like "FC's too > > much" without even trying to contact support. > > Catch and report your exceptions from the field back to you, and you may > not need them to contact support: > > http://www.androidguys.com/2009/11/16/diagnosing-sporadic-errors/ > > For example, I purchased a $10 app just the other day, and I was able to > get it to crash. The developer had a default exception handler in place, > but it wasn't automatically sending the stack traces back to him. When I > followed the instructions and sent the error code to the support email, > I pointed out the above link. > > The developer turned around, integrated one of the exception-reporting > libraries, and shot me a beta. I reproduced the crash, and he had a > stack trace that allowed him to fix the bug. > > Now, in this case, the developer benefited because I actually contacted > support. However, the real "magic" was in the crash reporting, which the > developer could have added without my involvement. > > If users are complaining about "FC's", that suggests you do not have any > default exception handler (see Thread's > setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler()), let alone one that reports crash > data back to you. Add that, and you'll be armed with more data to help > you find the bugs in your app that your users are encountering and > complaining about. > > > Stuff > > like this does nothing but anger me because if I not tried to build > > something uniq and just built another fart app I could have got a free > > phone. > > And your proof that all of the top-rated apps are "fart apps" is...what, > exactly? > > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 2.0 Available!
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