Getting the crash log and send it as email

Question

From my search, i got the below code for getting the Crash Log .

try {
      Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("logcat -d");
      BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(
      new InputStreamReader(process.getInputStream()));

      StringBuilder log=new StringBuilder();
      String line;
      while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) 
      {
        log.append(line);
      }

But where do i add this code, so that i should get the crash report whenever my app crashes .

Also i want to email it or send to the server, but after the app getting crashed, how to call the action to send email/HTTP post method .

Please advise and thanks in advance .

Answer 1

The best way to handle crash logs is creating an UncaughtExceptionHandler and handling it as per your requirement. Create a BaseActivity class and extend all the Activities with that and put this code stuff in the BaseActivity class.

private Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler handleAppCrash = 
                                         new Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler() {
        @Override
        public void uncaughtException(Thread thread, Throwable ex) {
            Log.e("error", ex.toString());
            //send email here
        }
    };

Then just enable is inside onCreate() method of your BaseActivity by using

Thread.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler(handleAppCrash);

So, now whenever there will be a crash in your Application uncaughtException() will be called and you will have to handle the crash accordingly.