I have an app that is not in the market place (signed with a debug certificate), but would like to get crash log data, whenever my application crashes. Where can I find a log of why my app crashed?
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If your app is being downloaded by other people and crashing on remote devices, you may want to look into an Android error reporting library (referenced in this SO post). If it's just on your own local device, you can use LogCat. Even if the device wasn't connected to a host machine when the crash occurred, connected the device and issuing an adb logcat command will download the entire logcat history (at least to the extent that it is buffered which is usually a loooot of log data, it's just not infinite). Do either of those options answer your question? If not can you attempt to clarify what you're looking for a bit more?
Chris Thompson
2010-09-04 18:24:24
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There are probably a dozen solutions, easily found online. Flurry and other analytics packages have them. DroidDrop and other open source solutions exist. Android Log Collector may be an option for you. And so forth.
CommonsWare
2010-09-04 18:24:27
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If you're using Eclipse, make sure you use debug and not run. Make sure you are in the debug perspective (top right) You may have to hit 'Resume' (F8) a few times for the log to print. The crash log will be in the Logcat window at the bottom- double click for fullscreen and make sure you scroll to the bottom. You'll see red text for errors, the crash trace will be something like
09-04 21:35:15.228: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(778): Uncaught handler: thread main exiting due to uncaught exception
09-04 21:35:15.397: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(778): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.dazlious.android.helloworld/com.dazlious.android.helloworld.main}: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
09-04 21:35:15.397: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(778): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2268)
09-04 21:35:15.397: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(778): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2284)
09-04 21:35:15.397: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(778): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1800(ActivityThread.java:112)
09-04 21:35:15.397: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(778): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1692)
09-04 21:35:15.397: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(778): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
09-04 21:35:15.397: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(778): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
09-04 21:35:15.397: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(778): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3948)
09-04 21:35:15.397: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(778): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
09-04 21:35:15.397: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(778): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
09-04 21:35:15.397: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(778): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:782)
09-04 21:35:15.397: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(778): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:540)
09-04 21:35:15.397: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(778): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
09-04 21:35:15.397: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(778): Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
09-04 21:35:15.397: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(778): at com.example.android.helloworld.main.onCreate(main.java:13)
09-04 21:35:15.397: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(778): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1123)
09-04 21:35:15.397: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(778): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2231)
09-04 21:35:15.397: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(778): ... 11 more
The important parts for this one are
09-04 21:35:15.397: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(778): Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
09-04 21:35:15.397: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(778): at com.example.android.helloworld.main.onCreate(main.java:13)
those tell us it was an array out of bounds exception on on line 13 of main.java in the onCrate method.
T. Markle
2010-09-05 01:38:30