When I get the Force Close dialog, I have a Report button. Where did it come from?

I feel a little bit silly asking this, but I haven't been able to find any answers on my own. My Force Close dialog has a "Report" button. I think it's a great idea, and I wish everyone had it. At first, I thought it must be something I turned on without realizing it, but not only can't I find any setting that I might have touched, I also can't find any reference to this button existing on the Internet. I have a Droid, and I know 4 other people with Droids, and they say they don't have the option to report Force Closes. Am I special? Am I just missing something? The "report" button has been there for at least a few weeks now.

When I use the Report button, I get a screen with a "feedback" field and a checkbox for "Include system data". Below that , it says "Information from feedback reports will be shown to the developer of the application." Under that are Preview and Send buttons.

As a developer, I've never received one of these reports.

I'd try to send a report to myself, but it seemingly only shows the button for apps installed from the market, and I don't know of a way to crash my production app.

I suppose I could publish a simple crashing app just to try it out, but I thought I'd ask you folks first.

Edit: You can view screenshots here: http://bentobin.com/crashReportImages/

Interesting, especially if reports really are available for developers. In which version was this introduced, or how?

Christopher 2010-04-02 16:11:29

Please tell me that if we implement a default `Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler` that we will override this behavior. Otherwise, since developers have no control over what is in the report, some applications may violate laws (e.g., HIPAA).

CommonsWare 2010-04-02 17:13:47

So, is it being ramped up slowly or something? It doesn't appear to be perfected yet, as my screenshot shows a date of Dec 31, 1969 being sent.

BenTobin 2010-04-02 19:56:42

It's a bit sad that his happened, again, without involving the community.For the features, I have yet to see it, but the initiative is great and was long needed.Hopefully this data will also be seen by Google, not only the developers. That way the engineers would get feedback on what is broken or not well understood on the platform.

Mariano Kamp 2010-05-13 20:47:03

Last not least, I can't see from the screenshots how to contact the submitter, but this is definitively a very important feature and with the Market we have enough one way communications. Optionally submitting anonymously would be ok for me though.

Mariano Kamp 2010-05-13 20:52:48

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When I get the Force Close dialog, I have a Report button. Where did it come from?

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