Android Remote Stacktrace: Improved

This project has been forked to carry on maintenance. We thank Alexander Pretzlav for keeping the original code and improvements.

This project is fork of Android Remote Stacktrace which adds a number of important features:

• Customizable interface for handling stacktraces
• Behaves better with the filesystem by saving stacktraces to their own directory, instead of your application's root documents directory
• Allows optional debug logging, which will also mark your application as a DEBUG build in stack traces

See also: javadoc

What follows is the original documentation for Android Remote Stacktrace, with small modifications for the few API changes made by me.

Client side usage

Download the latest trace.jar file found here. Drop it into your Android project and in the properties for your project add it to "Java Build Path" -> "Libraries". Alternately, check out the source of this project, import it as an Eclipse Android Library Project, and add it as a library dependency to your app.

If you use the default HttpPostStackInfoSender, you must enable internet access for your application:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

In the onCreate method of your activity or in your service, you must call either public static boolean register(Context context, String url) (for the default HTTP POST behavior) or public static boolean register(Context context, final StackInfoSender stackInfoSender, final boolean debug) found in the class ExceptionHandler. Do something like this:

ExceptionHandler.register(this, "http://trace.nullwire.com");

Or, using your own handler:

ExceptionHandler.register(this, new MyFancyExceptionSender(), isDebugEnabled);

If you wish to implement your own StackInfoSender, see the javadoc documentation for the interface.

Server side installation

If you would like to store your stack traces on your own server, you will have to register the exception handler like this:

ExceptionHandler.register(this, "http://your.domain/path"); 

At http://your.domain/path the client side implementation will expect to find this simple PHP script, which will take three POST parameters: 'package_name', 'package_version' and 'stacktrace'. The collected data is simply stored in a plain text file. You can extend the script to send you an email with the stack trace if you like - just uncomment the last line and change the email address.

Building the JAR

The JAR may be built by issuing the following command:

ant jar

This will produce a trace.jar file.

Cleaning up is done by:

ant clean

Support

If you have problems, feel free to drop me a mail at mads.kristiansen@nullwire.com.

Additional information

How to integrate stack trace collection with Redmine: http://nullwire.com/capturing_android_exceptions_remotely.

Contributors

Thanks to these people, who contributed with code changes and/or bug reports.

Glen Humphrey, Evan Charlton, Peter Hewitt

License

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2009 Mads Kristiansen, Nullwire ApS

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