Connecting 3rd party Crash Analytics to Google Play's Crash Analytics

Question

I am new to the Google Play Store Console, and noticed some crashes and ANRs reported in the GP console that I have not seen on my 3rd party crash analytics dashboard. However, Google only reports the crash/ANR stack trace, and I was hoping I could get context around the crash and/or the ANR.

Is there a way I can see full logs for a given crash and what lead up to the report? Or a way I can harvest unique identifiers so I can query for those logs in my 3rd party console?

I saw this post which suggests intercepting all crashes and appending user data to it- this sounds like a TOS violation though... also wouldn't help for ANRs.

My overall goal is to get both system logs and logs lines I create throughout the app (Log.I, Log.W and Log.E).

I see 2 possible solutions to my issue:

1. If google gives me a way to download the logcat logs surrounding a particular crash, I could get greater context around the crash/ANR
2. Intercept all crashes, and append these crashes with some unique identifier such that I can query for them in a separate crash dashboard. But then how can I intercept ANRs?

Thanks!

I tried to query based on device type/ android version, but it only narrows my search doesn't help me get particular logs.

Answer 1

What other kind of logs are you looking for? Your logs? System logs?

The play store only provides the crash and nothing else.

Intercepting crash logs with a custom error message is not against TOS, it will however probably provide bad results if not done properly.

If you want to possibly get more information from crashes then might I suggest Firebase Crashlytics where you have the ability to slightly customize crash reports