ACRA not sending logcat

Question

EDIT

With credit to F43nd1r, the solution is to put LOGCAT in your ReportsCrashes annotation, e.g.

@ReportsCrashes (
  mailTo = "log@perinote.com",
  mode = ReportingInteractionMode.TOAST,
  customReportContent = {ReportField.ANDROID_VERSION, 
                         ReportField.STACK_TRACE, 
                         ReportField.LOGCAT},
  resToastText = R.string.crash_toast_text
)

ORIGINAL POST

I'm trying out ACRA and would like it to capture the stack trace and logcat. At the moment, I have it configured to invoke my email app to send the data. Upon a crash, it is display a toast and is opening the email app with the stack trace in the message body. However, there is no logcat.

As best as I can tell according to the documentation, when I put the READ_LOGS permission in the manifest, it should include the last 200 lines of the logcat in the report.

I'm testing on an Android 7.0 device.

manifest:

<manifest package="com.perinote.crashtest"
          xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

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

  <application
    ...
  </application>
</manifest>

package com.perinote.crashtest;

import ...;

@ReportsCrashes (
  mailTo = "log@perinote.com",
  mode = ReportingInteractionMode.TOAST,
  resToastText = R.string.crash_toast_text
)

public class AppSubclass extends Application
{
  @Override
  protected void attachBaseContext(Context base)
  {
    super.attachBaseContext(base);
    ACRA.init (this);
  }
}

I don't think any other of my files are relevant, but let me know if you need more info.

Answer 1

Including a full report could be quite difficult due to the data size. Default fields included in email reports are:

• ReportField.USER_COMMENT
• ReportField.ANDROID_VERSION
• ReportField.APP_VERSION_NAME
• ReportField.BRAND
• ReportField.PHONE_MODEL
• ReportField.CUSTOM_DATA
• ReportField.STACK_TRACE

Source: Sending Reports by Mail

So, if you want to include logcat, you have to modify the report fields to include ReportField.LOGCAT.

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Note that starting from ACRA 4.9.3 (Unreleased) you'll be able to send the report as a mail attachment instead of as body, so size shouldn't be a problem anymore. Until then, including logcat might result in unsendable reports (as they might exceed character limits imposed by mail providers).

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The above answer only applies to ACRA 4.x. In ACRA 5.x the default configuration is the same for all senders and does include logcat.