Get App crash info using getHistoricalProcessExitReasons
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2 min readDec 13, 2020
Today we will learn about the new feature provided by ActivityManager in API 30. Which helps us to get an information related to application crashes.
It has 3 parameters :
- packageName: Optional, a null value means match all packages belonging to the caller’s UID. We provides application package name here.
- pid: A process ID that used to belong to this package but died later; a value of 0 means to ignore this parameter and return all matching records. It can be ≥0.
- maxNum: It represents maximum number of results to be returned; a value of 0 means to ignore this parameter and return all matching records. It can be ≥ 0.
As you have seen above that getHistoricalProcessExitReasons method returns MutableList of type ApplicationExitInfo.
Let's check what information ApplicationExitInfo object provides us.
- There is a lot of information that it provides us related to crash 👇
- Here, I will discuss only reason, you can learn more about the ApplicationExitInfo object here
- Reason can be one of the following :
- Enough discussion let’s see an example code how we can use it in real world applications:
- This code 👆will create the following crashes : 💥💥💥💥
// App process died because of an unhandled exception in Java code.
REASON_CRASH = 4;
// App process was killed due to being unresponsive (ANR).
REASON_ANR = 6;
