Just pointing out an alternative as well (I've used it in a few apps):
http://code.google.com/p/android-remote-stacktrace/
- Dan
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:58 AM, dadical <keyes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For those of you that are comfortable using Flurry, a similar approach
> works nicely. Flurry already collects uncaught exceptions, but for
> some reason doesn't actually log the stack trace. To get around this,
> I add an exceptionHandler that logs a Flurry event with the stack
> trace as a parameter, like this:
>
> OutputStream lOS = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
> PrintStream lPS = new PrintStream(lOS, true);
> t.printStackTrace(lPS);
> lPS.flush();
> Map<String, String> lArgs = new HashMap<String, String>();
> lArgs.put("stackTrace", lOS.toString());
>
> SharedPreferences lPrefs =
> PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(pCtxt);
> if(lPrefs.getBoolean(PREFS_REMOTE_DEBUG, true)){
> FlurryAgent.onEvent(FLURRY_EVENT_UNCAUGHT_EXCEPTION,
> lArgs);
> }
>
> One big advantage of this approach is that Flurry collects lots of
> metrics w.r.t. the frequency, timing, and sequencing of the events.
> Works very, very nicely.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 26, 10:10 am, Streets Of Boston <flyingdutc...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I haven't made it public yet (i will at some point), but i have a
> > similar system for my apps.
> >
> > The process of my activities registers itself by calling
> > Thread.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler(uncaughtXcptHandler) and
> > binds to service that i wrote that runs in a different process (since
> > my app will be dying because of an exception, it's tricky to properly
> > handle the exception in the dying process itself).
> >
> > Then in the uncaughtXcptHandler.void uncaughtException(Thread t,
> > Throwable e), I write out an error-log file with the stack-trace and
> > some other info. Then i call an asynchronous method on my service that
> > will pop up a dialog allowing the user to send me the error report or
> > not. If the user clicks 'Yes', then the error-log file is read and
> > sent to my webserver. My webserver then sends me an e-mail. This way,
> > users can remain anonymous (no e-mail/reply address necessary).
> >
> > I let my app die immediately after calling the asynchronous method. If
> > my app couldn't bind to the service for any reason, the old and
> > trusted force-close message from Android is shown instead.
> >
> > On Feb 25, 3:10 pm, focuser <linto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi fellow Android developers,
> >
> > > How many times have you asked users to send you the logcat result to
> > > track down a nasty force-close? How many users have actually replied?
> >
> > > It's not that users are lazy or busy. Having to run the "logcat"
> > > command or download an external log collector app just means too much
> > > trouble for them. It should be much simpler. It should be just one
> > > tap.
> >
> > > In fact I'm surprised (or being ignorant) that an easier error
> > > reporting mechanism has not existed yet in the Android API, especially
> > > for the infamous force-close. That is why I coded and open-sourced
> > > "Android, send me logs!", a small code library that makes it easy to
> > > detect force-close and send logs from within your own apps. You can
> > > program it to report errors with just one tap, and also include your
> > > own tracing information.
> >
> > > Please check it out athttp://code.google.com/p/android-send-me-logs/.
> > > It's still in very early stage, and I would appreciate your critism,
> > > suggestions, comments, or even code contributions.
> >
> > > Linton Ye
>
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