How to debug what's wrong if app crashes only in release mode

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I upgraded Flutter to 2.0.0 recently and am stuck with this issue. flutter run and flutter run --profile work perfectly well, but flutter run --release makes app crash after startup. There is no stacktrace, there is no error or warning, there is no build issue or verbose warning, no hint really. I googled a lot, but similar questions were answered like "try to remove this line" or "try to add that line". I couldn't find any clear steps on how to debug what's wrong.

What steps should I take to debug this issue and find the root cause instead of trying meaningless changes on code hoping some of them will eventually fix the issue?

flutter adb build debugging
6 Answers

Use adb logcat

OR

Enable debugging in release build, by modifying your android/app/build.gradle like this

buildTypes {
    release {
        debuggable true
        shrinkResources false
        minifyEnabled false
        ...
    }
}
user_45280720

When the error is code related and not in flutter itself sentry should help.

Sentry's Flutter SDK enables automatic reporting of errors, messages, and exceptions.

You can import it just as any other package

dependencies:
  sentry_flutter: ^4.0.6

and configure it as early as possible in you app

import 'package:flutter/widgets.dart';
import 'package:sentry_flutter/sentry_flutter.dart';

Future<void> main() async {
  await SentryFlutter.init(
    (options) => options.dsn = 'put_your_public_key_here',
    appRunner: () => runApp(MyApp()),
  );
}

To get your public key you just have to sign up on sentry.io and create a flutter project, no need to search for your key your it should be in the example code, it wont let you pass that point without initialiting it so you can't miss it. The docs regarding flutter can be found here.

user_133139410

You can Use Firebase Analytics to see error logs from your released devices from firebase. Previously it was named as Fabric.

Or you can create your own log tracker, write the logs in a file and upload the log to your server.

You can give options to user to capture log and send to server within "Advanced Settings" or something like that.

user_15676690

try this flutter run --release --no-shrink

user_127674290

Check if you have given correct permission to the app in AndroidManifest.xml, in my case I simply fixed this issue by giving camera permission

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

before the tag

user_172588060

In my case, after two day of confusion because app crashes only in release mode without any error on console, and errors shown in adb logcat not clear (unknown errors), after that I switching Flutter channel from stable to master, after run release on master channel errors started shown as clear messages, I solved these errors then crashes problem solved.

So my steps is:

1- Switching Flutter channel to master by run this command in terminal:

flutter channel master

2- Run upgrade command in terminal:

flutter upgrade

3- Run app as release:

flutter run --release

4- Watch console to see errors...

user_28774270
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