fennifith / crasher

An easy to use crash reporting library for Android.

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I've written a wide range of software for various reasons - to suit my needs, experiment with new functionality, or just mess around for fun.

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crasher's Issues

Suggested "Fixes"

This would only be a good temporary solution for users, and is definitely not an excuse to build apps that use this intentionally, but it would be useful for the crash screen to display a set of possible solutions to common errors, such as problems reading from SharedPreferences after an update (clear the app data), problems getting a users location (turn gps on), permission-related issues (go to the settings & enable them), etc.

GitHub Integration

Would be nice if it could search & display open issues in a repo that contain the exception name, plus a link to create an issue (and possibly a way to do that in-app using a bot profile).

Auto-Detect Play Store Installation

This'd make implementation a heck of a lot easier for me; I would probably actually use this thing if it could do this. Basically, this would let me show the default crash dialog if it's installed through the play store (meaning, users are able to report the crash through the normal routes), and show the custom activity if it isn't (if it's installed as an apk, it's likely meant for debugging anyway). Not sure what the most efficient way to do this is, but I'll find something.

Option for Notification on Crash Instead of Activity

This would be extremely useful for displaying error messages to users of applications like Status that are meant to operate in the background and shouldn't be annoying or interrupt the user if they stop working.

Add Device/App Info to Emails

Useful things to add:

• version name/number
• whether it is a debug build
• android version name/number
• device model/manufacturer
• is rooted

License should be specified.

I can't seem to find the license for this code anywhere meaning that technically anyone using it is violating your copyright and shouldn't be using it.

Would you mind putting a license (I'd use LGPL personnally)?