I am developing android application for client. Now client testing my application in various device. While testing, my application is crash at times. Now I need to know when and where the application crash.
How can I get the crash report from the device? Since my client does not have sdk and eclipse to view logcat error report.
There are mechanisms like ACRA that will let you obtain the crash reports from Android apps.
Instabug is a bug & crash reporting service and it’s just what you’re looking for.
It automatically sends a report containing all crash and device details once a crash occurs, plus it only takes a line of code to integrate in your app.
For full disclosure, I work at Instabug. Let me know if I can help.
By adding the Crash Report SDK in the project, You can view the released application crash log, which will help to locate problems.
Here is a demo page
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My android app has entered beta and a tester is encountering the android reporting the app has crashed. Is there a recommended approach for collecting logcat entries and emailing or moving the event off device? Testers have no access to the source code or android dev studio.
Have seen android report crash dumps and offer the choice to download the dump off device. Any pointers to an approach for this?
Use an analytics tool like crashlytics. When crashes occur they are logged in its dashboard, here you can view the stacktrace for the crash just like you would in the logcat.
I have a android app in which Crittercism SDK is included and initialised as per standard documentation.
I intentionally put a loophole in the flow by which I can make app crash by manipulating data on my server and then pushing it to device.
Recently few users reported crash but I didnot see it on Crittercism website. So I simulated crashes. Out of 3 crashes I got report for 2 on Crittercism website and one was missed.
I waited for a day. And since 2 crashes made through, there is no issue with sdk integration in my app. (Its not NDK and crashes were of type malformed JSON during parsing) Not related to Java runtime crashes or other low level crashes.
Does any one face similar issue? How can we avoid this?
Thanks in advance.
I experienced a similar issue, but it concerned the automatic emails that you receive when a crash occurs. I found that identical crashes are usually only reported once.
The following Crittercism KB article explains why:
http://support.crittercism.com/articles/knowledge_base/Im-not-getting-an-email-every-time-the-app-crashes-whats-happening
I hope title itself says what my question is.
My app is crashing at very rare scenarios like nearly 1 out of 100 times.
I am not using any crash log tools and not logging exception causes.
I want to know does Android system maintains any crash log report when the app is crashed either in System level or in App level.
Thanks
Android system maintains a crash report and sends to the developer but the user has to allow this.
And then you can check it here in Android Developer Console:
As an alternative you can use third-party loggers like Liquid, Crashlytics (mention in another answer), Splunk MINT Express (ex-Bugsense) or any other from this links
I don't think so, if you can't debug it in real time with the IDE (DDMS and LogCat), you must use Crashlytics or any other similar tool.
I use it in all my apps, it is very useful.
I have developed an app and want to make sure that whenever an unexpected crash occurs, the user is able to send a crash report.
From Android 2.2 onward I read that Android has something build in for this. However, in my case, the application crashes in one special situation, but only the "Force close" button is shown.
The button is not shown in the app downloaded from the Market as well as when I install it directly on my telephone.
Must I perform some programmatic effort to achieve this?
Crash report options are given to users of Android >= 2.2. As a developer you don't need to do anything with your code just monitor your developer account for crash/freeze reports.
See this blog
You can add Crash Report SDK in your project. If an unexpected crash occurs, it will be reported to the crashlog.org platform. You can view the crash log on this platform, where offers Stack traces, Memory, Storage, Thread and Process information for debugging.
I have developed application in Android and submit to client for testing feature now at that time error are generated now I want to track that error. I have use android Log.e(string,string) method for logging. Is it save any where in android device I can check that bug. Or have any bug tracking solution for android that give me log of application.
You could use acra for that : http://code.google.com/p/acra/
It's really easy to use and you can include almost anything you want in your crash reports.