How to catch my application's crash report

Question

I am developing android application. I want to send an email to myself whenever my app crashes on a device, so that I can find my application's crash report through email. How can I implement this concept in my app? Have any exception handler for it?

Answer 1

I am catching un-handled exceptions by using this in my activity's onCreate():

mUEHandler = new Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler() {

        @Override
        public void uncaughtException(Thread t, Throwable e) {
            try {

                PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(
                        openFileOutput(DMP_FILENAME, 0)));
                e.printStackTrace(pw);
                pw.flush();
                pw.close();
            } catch (FileNotFoundException e1) {
                // do nothing
            }
            BaseActivity.this.finish();
        }
    };

    Thread.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler(mUEHandler);

This writes every unhandled exception in your app that happened on your activity to text file. Then you can analyze it.

Answer 2

I use ACRA http://code.google.com/p/acra/ to collect crash reports. Since these are collected into Google docs-based spreadsheet you can configure to be notified when that doc is updated