Android ACRA Reporting

Question

I am trying to get basic reporting using ACRA in Android Studio in my test app (Lollipop).

So far, I have implemented following:

1. added dependancy in gradle

    compile 'ch.acra:acra:4.6.2' 

2. added MyApplication which extends Application and added ReportsCrashes annotation to it:

    @ReportsCrashes( resNotifTickerText = R.string.crash_notification_ticker_text, resNotifTitle = R.string.crash_notification_title, resNotifText = R.string.crash_notification_text, resNotifIcon = R.mipmap.error ); public class MyApplication extends Application { private static final String TAG = MyApplication.class.getSimpleName(); @Override public void onCreate(){ super.onCreate(); ACRA.init(this); } } 

(BTW, sorry for code formatting above, but StackOverflow refused to format it properly for some reason)

This is based on ACRA documentation provided in github https://github.com/ACRA/acra/wiki/BasicSetup

3. added application name and INTERNET permission in AndroidManifest

    <!-- add INTERNET permission --> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" /> <!-- add application name --> <application android:name="MyApplication" android:allowBackup="true" android:icon="@mipmap/ic_launcher" android:label="@string/app_name" android:supportsRtl="true" android:theme="@style/AppTheme" > <activity android:name=".MainActivity" > <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /> </intent-filter> </activity> </application> 

4. My main activity has just one button, when clicked, it will crash app when it attempts to do division by zero

     public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity { public final static String TAG = MainActivity.class.getSimpleName(); private Button btnError; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); btnError = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnError); btnError.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), getString(R.string.toast_app_crash), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); Runnable r = new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { // this will crash your app throwing Arithmetic Exception int number = 7 / 0; } }; Handler h = new Handler(); h.postDelayed(r, 2000); } }); } } 

I am expecting to see some kind of notification and some kind of report to get generated but I dont get any. My app simply crashes at the spot where division by zero is attempted.

I am not sure what is that I am doing wrong.

Thanks,

Answer 1

The type of notification you should select as

 mode = ReportingInteractionMode.TOAST,
   //Available : Dialog,Notification,Toast and Silent
    resToastText = R.string.crash_text_toast

Here is the sample report parameter what i have used in my app.

    @ReportsCrashes(
    formUri="",
formUriBasicAuthLogin = "CloundantAuthLogin",
formUriBasicAuthPassword = "CloundantAuthKeyPassword",
    reportType = org.acra.sender.HttpSender.Type.JSON,
    httpMethod = org.acra.sender.HttpSender.Method.PUT,
    customReportContent = { ReportField.APP_VERSION_NAME, ReportField.ANDROID_VERSION, ReportField.PHONE_MODEL,ReportField.DEVICE_FEATURES,
    ReportField.USER_APP_START_DATE,ReportField.USER_CRASH_DATE,ReportField.TOTAL_MEM_SIZE,ReportField.USER_COMMENT,
        ReportField.THREAD_DETAILS, ReportField.STACK_TRACE }, 
    mode = ReportingInteractionMode.DIALOG,
    includeDropBoxSystemTags  = true,
    resToastText = R.string.crash_toast_text, // optional, displayed as soon as the crash occurs, before collecting data which can take a few seconds
    resDialogText = R.string.crash_dialog_text,
    resDialogIcon = android.R.drawable.ic_dialog_info, //optional. default is a warning sign
    resDialogTitle = R.string.crash_dialog_title, // optional. default is your application name
    resDialogCommentPrompt = R.string.crash_dialog_comment_prompt, // optional. when defined, adds a user text field input with this text resource as a label
    resDialogOkToast = R.string.crash_dialog_ok_toast // optional. displays a Toast message when the user accepts to send a report.
    )

Library used : acra-4.6.2

The best tutorial till date available here : http://www.toptal.com/android/automated-android-crash-reports-with-acra-and-cloudant