How to get Android crash logs?

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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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You can try this from the console:

adb logcat --buffer=crash 

More info on this option:

adb logcat --help

...

  -b <buffer>, --buffer=<buffer>         Request alternate ring buffer, 'main',
                  'system', 'radio', 'events', 'crash', 'default' or 'all'.
                  Multiple -b parameters or comma separated list of buffers are
                  allowed. Buffers interleaved. Default -b main,system,crash.

Here is a solution that can help you dump all the logs onto a text file

adb logcat -d > logs.txt

Use acra crash reporter for android app..Acra lib

1) Plug in Phone through USB (w/ Developer Debugging options enabled)

2) Open Terminal and Navigate to your Android SDK (for Mac):

cd ~/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools

3) Logcat from that directory (in your terminal) to generate a constant flow of logs (for Mac):

./adb logcat

4) Open your app that crashes to generate crash logs

5) Ctrl+C to stop terminal and look for the logs associated with the app that crashes. It may say something like the following:

AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: main

Base on this POST, use this class as replacement of "TopExceptionHandler"

class TopExceptionHandler implements Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler {
private Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler defaultUEH;
private Activity app = null;
private String line;

public TopExceptionHandler(Activity app) {
    this.defaultUEH = Thread.getDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler();
    this.app = app;
}

public void uncaughtException(Thread t, Throwable e) {




    StackTraceElement[] arr = e.getStackTrace();
    String report = e.toString()+"\n\n";
    report += "--------- Stack trace ---------\n\n";
    for (int i=0; i<arr.length; i++) {
        report += "    "+arr[i].toString()+"\n";
    }
    report += "-------------------------------\n\n";

    // If the exception was thrown in a background thread inside
    // AsyncTask, then the actual exception can be found with getCause

    report += "--------- Cause ---------\n\n";
    Throwable cause = e.getCause();
    if(cause != null) {
        report += cause.toString() + "\n\n";
        arr = cause.getStackTrace();
        for (int i=0; i<arr.length; i++) {
            report += "    "+arr[i].toString()+"\n";
        }
    }
    report += "-------------------------------\n\n";

    try {
        FileOutputStream trace = app.openFileOutput("stack.trace",
                Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
        trace.write(report.getBytes());
        trace.close();



        Intent i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);
        i.setType("message/rfc822");
        i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_EMAIL  , new String[]{"kevineyni@gmail.com"});
        i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, "crash report azar");
        String body = "Mail this to kevineyni@gmail.com: " + "\n" + trace + "\n";
        i.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT   , body);
        try {
            startActivity(Intent.createChooser(i, "Send mail..."));
        } catch (android.content.ActivityNotFoundException ex) {
           // Toast.makeText(MyActivity.this, "There are no email clients installed.", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }






      //  ReaderScopeActivity.this.startActivity(Intent.createChooser(sendIntent, "Title:"));

        //ReaderScopeActivity.this.deleteFile("stack.trace");

    } catch(IOException ioe) {
        // ...
    }

    defaultUEH.uncaughtException(t, e);
}

private void startActivity(Intent chooser) {
}

}

.....

in same java class file (Activity) .....

Public class MainActivity.....

.....

 @Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    Thread.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler(new TopExceptionHandler(this));

.....

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