Verify that ACRA is working

Question

I am just about to release an app and I saw this stackoverflow question about things you should do before releasing an app. It tells me to use ACRA so I followed the instructions on this page.

So know I have a class called MyApplication like so :

import android.app.Application;
import org.acra.*;
import org.acra.annotation.*;

@ReportsCrashes(formKey = "", // will not be used
    mailTo = "c@gmail.com",
    mode = ReportingInteractionMode.TOAST,
    customReportContent = { ReportField.APP_VERSION_CODE, ReportField.APP_VERSION_NAME, ReportField.ANDROID_VERSION, ReportField.PHONE_MODEL, ReportField.CUSTOM_DATA, ReportField.STACK_TRACE, ReportField.LOGCAT },   
    resToastText = R.string.crash_report_text)
public class MyApplication extends Application {
    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();

        // The following line triggers the initialization of ACRA
        ACRA.init(this);
    }
}

Now apparently when my application crashes I think the user is supposed to be able to send the report somehow, so I put a null pointer in my app but it just crashes and nothing happens. Am I supposed to do anything else?

Answer 1

I guess you might not have registered your application on BugSense

Where you want to send the crash reporst that depands on you only. When you are using Google Docs (deprecated now), you have to use your formKey you got from your google docs document.

If you want to store the reports on your own server, you can leave the formKey field blank. The only thing you have to do is to enter a valid url to your server (formUri = ....).

The other strings are for the type of dialog, which should or shouldn't appear.

Instead of using your own server, you can use BugSense. See this thread on stackoverflow.

• As the use of Google Docs is deprecated for ACRA. I recommend you to use **BugSense** as your Back-End service:

1. Go to their site and sign in: http://www.bugsense.com/

2. Create a new project to monitor in BugSense site, as a result you will receive an API Key for this application.

3. Finally add this line to you Application class in you project:

@ReportsCrashes(formUri = "http://www.bugsense.com/api/acra?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY", formKey="")

Check out BugSense Docmentation