ACRA - Application Crash Report for Android

The worst part in having FC-s in your application, is the user response, which is 1 star reviews and disappointed user's comments in the android market.
For example: "crash on start" or "bad..uninstall", 1*. These are quite common on the android market, and are not very helpful, for developers. You don't see users mailing in crash reports, very often, because it's hard for the avarage user, to get the data, the devs need.
A few days ago in Jozsi’s article Useful Java APIs for Android applications, a commenter named Kevin Gaudin (thanks Kevin!) recommended ACRA - Application Crash Report for Android. He is also the developer of the project.

ACRA works like this:
"ACRA is a library enabling Android Application to automatically post their crash reports to a GoogleDoc form. It is targetted to android applications developers to help them get data from their applications when they crash or behave erroneously."

ACRA on google code
So the FC dialog will be replaced by a method of the developers choice(silent data sending, toast, notification bar).
Check the wiki for instructions, it's very easy to deploy it, to any project.
One great feature for us is, that it can send crash reports from any device. We always had issues connecting our T-mobile Pulse to the sdk, we never managed to read a single line of log from it. It also helps if there are several developers working together, and want to send automated crash reports to each other.

Privacy is a very important topic, ACRA has several ways of notifying the user. We liked the status bar notification the best.
During a developments testing phase, it's best to set it to automatic sending, with just a toast as notification.

One thing that you have to be careful at, is if you use a private google (docs) account, ACRA won't be able to write into the spreadsheet it needs. Check your privacy settings, if you don't see the crash reports arriving!

Now that android 2.2 is out, and it has "Android Application Error Reports" integrated, it seems that ACRA came a little too late. Sadly, a lot of devices will never see official 2.2 updates, so if you want to support more devices, ACRA is the way to go.
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