Hi, fellow Android applications developers, Here is an update on the ACRA project. (See http://acra.googlecode.com)
For those of you who would not know ACRA, this is an open source library under Apache license allowing your application to send crash reports to a Google Spreadsheet. Works on all android versions (tested from 1.5 to 2.3), without any requirement of publishing your app on any market. After a few months of tests, we published a new stable version of ACRA. Labeled 3.1.0, here are the major changes: - ACRA's configuration is now done through an annotation attached to your application class. You don't need to inherit from any specific Application subclass anymore. This means that you can now use ACRA with any other rich featured framework like GreenDroid, Droid Fu or Roboguice which have their own specific Application subclass inheritance requirement. - We also added some useful data to the reports: * The details (and in a human readable flavour) of the device android.content.res.Configuration at its initial state when your application starts . This includes the user locale (language/country), his Mobile Country Code and Mobile Network Code, the type of available input methods (keyboard, navigation, touch...), screen orientation (landscape/portrait)... * The same Configuration data but at the moment of the crash. This can allow to track issues due to Configuration changes like opening/ hiding physical keyboard, changing orientation... These issues are often hard to understand and I'm sure you'll find this useful. * The details of the screen size, resolution, density, refresh rate... * The user local date/time of the crash - A Wiki page has been created to help you configure ProGuard to work with ACRA : http://code.google.com/p/acra/wiki/ACRAProGuardHowTo (thanks to pingrys!). Please feel free to add your comments to improve this doc and help debugging applications using ProGuard. What's coming next ? The next version should be available "in the few following weeks" and will allow you to include in crash reports: - contents of the main logcat - contents of the events logcat - contents of the radio logcat - contents of the dropboxmanager (maybe this could lead to future works on using StrictMode API to report ANR issues ?) - more data about the dalvik memory usage We are still working on a potential way of providing a new Reporting Interaction Mode which would be a direct Dialog (without status bar notification). Though, this is a really hard work and can't plan any ETA for the moment. (thanks go to brainpilot!). I hope this will help you to go further in improving your applications quality and reduce your "platform fragmentation" headaches ;-) All comments and new ideas about ACRA are welcome ! I wish you all the best for the few last days of 2010 and beyond, Kevin Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
