Apps Suggestions on crash report framework(?)

[wubbzy]

Has anyone out there has experience with using frameworks to report crashes back to the developer via email of any other mechanism i.e. uploading it to a custom server. How would do you rate/like it?

I can certainly override threaduncaughtexception and roll out my custom, but I'm sure other people would have done that and tried it out and maybe there is a framework that does that.

http://market.android.com/details?id=com.roundere

 

[alostpacket]

There a bunch of stuff on StackOverflow about shoehorning the Apache Commons java logging thing into Android (and I think a google code project specifically).

But I have yet to use it myself.

However, you might want to look at RingDroid -- I think they have a feature like this..

ringdroid - An Android application for editing and creating your own ringtones, alarms, and notification sounds. - Google Project Hosting


hth

 

[wubbzy]

Not sure why you mention ringdroid?

I think I should have been more clear -- so here goes

Lets say I do something stupid, as a developer common man expects that stereotype anyways, and don't handle and exception. That will lead to un-handled exception and crash the app. If the app has been installed via market crash I can see the crash report. However, on stuff like beta and people who like to download APK's I won't see that crash report.

I can handle the un-handled exceptions by overriding Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler and possibly dump the exception to a file which I at later time can detect and upload/email or do something else.

I know there are stuff like hokeyapp, acra etc. that do that using different methods email, upload to server etc. I wanted to get opinion on if anyone has used those or other and what are their experiences (pros and cons).

http://market.android.com/details?id=com.roundere

 

[alostpacket]

I mentioned ringdroid because it is open source and they have code that does something similar to what you're asking.

I remember it crashing on my phone once long ago and it asked me if I wanted to email them the report. This was not the standard Android Market reporting.


Although it looks like they rolled their own solution rather than using a library.

Here's some of the code:
RingdroidEditActivity.java - ringdroid - An Android application for editing and creating your own ringtones, alarms, and notification sounds. - Google Project Hosting

As for opinions, I dont know. But I'm curious what others have to say as well.

 

[wubbzy]

I'll take peek @ their sources and see if leverage is possible. don't want the whole thing though