On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Robert Macaulay <[email protected]>wrote:
> >> I have Acra in my app to report on crashes(I will be removing it > in favor > >> of the market one soon). > > > > Why would you move to a worse solution? > > Mainly for simplicity. One less thing to deal with. But I do like the new > version(upgraded after posting) > Interesting. Agreed - the market reports are simple. But that also makes them fairly useless, IMO. I added auto-bug reporting based on the ACRA project (but highly simplified and just stripped down to reporting to a spreadsheet) which includes logging information. I've learned A LOT about how my app crashes out in the wild and, more importantly, *WHY* thanks to the logs. Meanwhile in the market console you get a report once in a blue moon when someone decides to write a comment (like the ever so useful "just crashed") with no logs and sometimes nothing but an callstack completely internal to the Android system. Not much you can do with that. No I just mark them as read without a second thought on the rare occasion that they do come in. If you already have it working, I'd highly recommend keeping it - assuming you care to try to fix the rare bugs that are happening out in the wild most people won' take the time to report. > >> > >> If that is what happens, how is the code being mingled at runtime? > > > > No idea - but I think many of us have seen strange, seemingly-impossible > > exceptions being generated after updates. There's definitely something > wonky > > there. > > Glad then it's not just me. Wish I could protect better against it. Users > do actually see the crash after upgrades because of these random events. Yup, I've gotten quite a few emails from people where what the described was very strange (not always a crash mind you). I tell them to uninstall and re-install and more often then not problem goes away. Unfortunately not everyone takes the time to email and assumes it's you fault. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- 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
