Android crash reporting significantly improves application performance by swiftly identifying and prioritizing crashes and ANRs (App Not Responding) instances. Android crash reporting provides real-time insights, including device information and specific code triggers, helping developers understand the root causes of issues. This enables efficient Android debugging and faster issue resolution. By analyzing aggregated crash data, developers can identify patterns and make targeted improvements, resulting in enhanced user experiences and overall app stability. Android crash reporting is a feedback-driven process that empowers developers to address issues promptly, leading to more stable apps, improved user satisfaction, and faster iterations for better application performance."
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ANR or Application Not Responding is an Android error that occurs when the UI thread becomes unresponsive to the user. When the application becomes unresponsive, the user is presented with an ANR dialog that gives them the option to force quit the application."
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Yes. The Android Native Development Kit (NDK) allows you to implement parts of your app in native code, using languages such as C and C++. NDK integration is packed with Sentry’s Android SDK. The package sentry-android-ndk works by bundling Sentry's native SDK,
Android Crash Reporting and Performance Monitoring
Crush Crashes and ANRs
Get your crash rates to zero (ish) and launch time under a second with Android crash reporting and performance monitoring that won’t let you down. Identify and fix every crash and ANR with real time insights, track and solve performance issues with full stack visibility, and save time with efficient Android error monitoring workflows.
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Get Started with Jetpack Compose
Jetpack Compose is Android’s recommended toolkit for building native UI. Our integration automatically captures user interactions as breadcrumbs and transactions, so you can quickly understand and solve any related issues.
Identify and solve performance issues, like long app start times, ANRs, janky frame rendering, and slow HTTP requests, before they impact your customer experience with Android perfomance monitoring.
Get code-level insight into how your application performs in production environments on real user devices with Profiling. Find the root cause of slowdowns and issues consuming excessive CPU and affecting Android application performance on your user’s mobile device.
Reduce context switching with a single, centralized platform for Android crash reporting and performance monitoring across projects and clients. With Distributed Tracing, identify backend issues that may affect Android performance, without consulting other tools or engineers.
All Your Errors and Performance Issues in One Place
Track and solve error and performance issues related to your Android application from the same centralized platform you use to monitor your web app or backend.
“We were using another popular tool for mobile crash tracking but we wanted to ‘up our game’ and go beyond that. We wanted to capture non-fatal errors in addition to crashes and be set up in a way that we can actually triage and respond to them. We also wanted a better understanding of performance, like screen rendering time. Sentry helped us achieve that.”
Getting Started is Simple
Just run this commmand to sign up for and install Sentry.
And then add Sentry Tracing with the below code snippet.
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import io.sentry.android.core.SentryAndroid;
SentryAndroid.init(this, options -> {
options.setDsn("https://[email protected]/0");
// To set a uniform sample rate
options.setTracesSampleRate(1.0);
// OR if you prefer, determine traces sample rate based on the sampling context
options.setTracesSampler(
context -> {
// return a number between 0 and 1 or null (to fallback to configured value)
});
});
Check our documentation for the latest instructions.
FAQs
Android crash reporting significantly improves application performance by swiftly identifying and prioritizing crashes and ANRs (App Not Responding) instances. Android crash reporting provides real-time insights, including device information and specific code triggers, helping developers understand the root causes of issues. This enables efficient Android debugging and faster issue resolution. By analyzing aggregated crash data, developers can identify patterns and make targeted improvements, resulting in enhanced user experiences and overall app stability. Android crash reporting is a feedback-driven process that empowers developers to address issues promptly, leading to more stable apps, improved user satisfaction, and faster iterations for better application performance.
ANR or Application Not Responding is an Android error that occurs when the UI thread becomes unresponsive to the user. When the application becomes unresponsive, the user is presented with an ANR dialog that gives them the option to force quit the application.
Yes. The Android Native Development Kit (NDK) allows you to implement parts of your app in native code, using languages such as C and C++. NDK integration is packed with Sentry’s Android SDK. The package sentry-android-ndk works by bundling Sentry's native SDK, sentry-native. As a result, even if a native library in your app causes the crash, Sentry is able to capture it. Learn More.
Yes. Whenever the main UI thread of the application is blocked for more than five seconds, the SDK will report the problem to the server. Learn more.
Crashlytics is a lightweight, mobile-only tool that only reports critical crash rates for Android. It does not offer deep context into issues with suspect commits, codeowners, and automatic non-fatal error capture; holistic monitoring from frontend to backend; or collaboration tools like issue triage or assignment.
Sentry is a fullstack error and performance monitoring solution that provides actionable insights into crashes across devices and app versions as well as powerful collaboration tools, helping teams troubleshoot and resolve issues faster. Unlike Crashlytics, it provides deep insight into any crashes, errors, or performance issues on your Android app, as well as collaboration tools for fast resolution. Sentry is also the only monitoring solution that provides support for Jetpack Compose, Android’s recommended toolkit for building native UIs. Learn more.
Here’s a quick look at how Sentry handles your personal information (PII).
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Who we collect PII from
We collect PII about people browsing our website, users of the Sentry service, prospective customers, and people who otherwise interact with us.
What if my PII is included in data sent to Sentry by a Sentry customer (e.g., someone using Sentry to monitor their app)? In this case you have to contact the Sentry customer (e.g., the maker of the app). We do not control the data that is sent to us through the Sentry service for the purposes of application monitoring.
