Android Patterns: Error Reporting
android, bug, error, pattern at November 24th, 2009 by 小影
Problem
Your software has bugs, and you would like to be notified when it happened. You would also like to get a stack trace for debug purpose.
Forces
Uncatch runtime exception cause application abort (“Force Close”), user can hardly report any meaningful information in such case
Solution
Use java Thread.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler(handler) to report errors.
Nullwire built and share a very nice library android-remote-stacktrace. Just include this library and add one line of code in your app, and its done!
They also provided a PHP based server. I have built one using Ruby/Sinatra, which can be hosted on Heroku for free. It send error notification email/tweet using Pushr!
