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Catching CRASH or ANR of the Android app directly on your smartphone


In this post I just want to share with you my application which I'm using during daily testing activities and which helps me to have the CRASH stacktrace or ANR report immediately after it happens on your Android device - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.error.hunter.

Please share your feedback regarding improvements if you'll have some :)

Update: I've uploaded this app source code to the github, so, you can also contribute if you want - https://github.com/denyszelenchuk/bug_radar.

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