Flurry has a similar function which I use. I find that if you add to many function calls, the app slows considerably making all the web requests, so speed is a huge factor.
Overall the exception handling feature is very nice, but other than that I rarely use these services. Kiall Mac Innes wrote: > I can obviously only speak for myself, and since I do a fair bit of web > development myself, I would rarely go for services like this :) > > For me .. any reporting required for a single app would take under a day to > dev, and a few days over the course of the app development to fully test and > bugfix it.. So the way I see it is that its cheaper for me to build what I > need than use an external service - especially considering the wealth of > libraries I've built up that usually allows me to build out fairly in-depth, > bespoke reporting functionality in a matter of hours... > > As I said tho - you'll likely many developers who don't see the DIY approach > as cheaper, or simply may not have the experience of building web apps. > > Thanks, > Kiall > > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Shane Isbell <[email protected]>wrote: > > > Hi Kiall, > > > > If the service came with reporting, graphs, the ability to drill down, > > maybe some benchmarking features, is this something that would interest you > > over a home-grown solution? Or is the need not compelling enough for such > > features? > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Kiall Mac Innes <[email protected]>wrote: > > > >> Sounds similar to the likes of http://hoptoadapp.com/ - This is designed > >> for error/exceptions only though... > >> > >> As a developer .. If I need to send data from my app back to a server, > >> i'll write the few lines of PHP (or whatever) to store it in a DB ... but > >> some people will prefer a hosted service I guess! > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Kiall > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Shane Isbell > >> <[email protected]>wrote: > >> > >>> Is there a need for developers to have an event and messaging service? > >>> For example, you could hit an API on the web that reports a specific > >>> event, > >>> like a download, purchase or even an application crash (with stack trace). > >>> Basically anything you want to record. You could then view stats at say > >>> ZappMarket but also be able to read your queued events from the ZappMarket > >>> server for your own uses. This is part of an effort to understand user > >>> behavior for paid applications. > >>> > >>> Useful? > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Shane Isbell (Founder of ZappMarket) > >>> http://twitter.com/sisbell > >>> http://twitter.com/zappstore > >>> http://zappmarket.com > >>> > >>> -- > >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >>> "Android Discuss" group. > >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >>> [email protected]<android-discuss%[email protected]> > >>> . > >>> For more options, visit this group at > >>> http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > >>> > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > >> "Android Discuss" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected]<android-discuss%[email protected]> > >> . > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Shane Isbell (Founder of ZappMarket) > > http://twitter.com/sisbell > > http://twitter.com/zappstore > > http://zappmarket.com > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Android Discuss" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<android-discuss%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en.
