How to listen for Exceptions in Android?

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Some of the analytics packages (for instance, Flurry) will listen for Exceptions and log them w/o actually catching them. How are they doing this?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 08 '10 at 20:23

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See Thread.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler and the respective Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler which receives the Thread and Throwable involved.

answered Jan 08 '10 at 20:23

Christopher Orr

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Thanks... I ended up finding another question which had a pretty good answer thanks to your help. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/601503/how-do-i-obtain-crash-data-from-my-android-application/755151#755151 – Jeremy Logan Jan 08 '10 at 20:41

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 08 '10 at 20:22

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answered Jan 08 '10 at 20:22

CommonsWare

What if you want to globally catch exceptions: Is this possible: See my post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5740843/android-global-error-handling-and-reporting-activity – Androider Apr 21 '11 at 09:03

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