Monday, April 16, 2012

How to get iPhone app users to submit crash reports?


Some of my users are reporting crashes. What is the best way to explain to them how to send me their crash reports, so that they show up in the iTunes Connect list of crash reports? Do they get sent when users sync their phone with their computers? Thanks!



Source: Tips4all

4 comments:

  1. They will show up in iTunes Connect automatically if the users have enabled that.


    When the user synchronizes their device using iTunes, crash reports
    are copied to a directory on the user's computer. If the application
    was distributed via the App Store and the user has chosen to submit
    crash logs to Apple, the crash log will be uploaded and the developer
    can download it via iTunes Connect.


    See: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#technotes/tn2008/tn2151.html

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  2. You could use BugSense and get crash reports without asking the users.
    Disclaimer: I am a co-founder at BugSense

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  3. I've been using Crittercism to automatically get crash reports. I like it better than iTunes because you get an email alert immediately after a crash.

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  4. When the users sync with the computer they go to:


    Mac OS X :
    ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MobileDevice/
    Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\\Application
    Data\Apple
    computer\Logs\CrashReporter/
    Windows Vista:
    C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Apple
    computer\Logs\CrashReporter/MobileDevice/


    The log file names start with application name and have the extension “crash”. They are just plain text files and can be sent by e-mail in original or zipped form, or even copy-pasted into your e-mail program.

    From: http://www.anoshkin.net/blog/2008/09/09/iphone-crash-logs/ after a SIMPLE search on google for "iphone crash reports".

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