Comments on: Crash Reporter Roundup

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:28:09 +0000

Hi Gleb- I ended up working from ILCrashReporter-NG, hacking a bunch of stuff out that I don’t need.

The challenge is really finding the feature set that you do want, with none of the liabilities for features you don’t want (e.g. library dependencies, “hacks”, etc.).

By: Gleb Dolgich

Gleb Dolgich — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:42:30 +0000

So which one did you choose Daniel?

By: Geoffrey Hutchison

Geoffrey Hutchison — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:34:14 +0000

Ah. No, I was wrong.

Google Quick Search Box includes Breakpad. So that’s another vote in favor of Breakpad, then.

So I’ll file another vote for Apple to add support for open crash reporting. Do they really want reports for X thousand 3rd party apps?

By: Geoffrey Hutchison

Geoffrey Hutchison — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:26:31 +0000

Strangely, I just noticed a crash on Snow Leopard of Google’s Quick Search Box. The resulting dialog said the report would go to Google! (Not Apple.)

So I’m going on a hunt. I wonder if Apple did add some features to the reporter… I’ll let you know.

By: John Gallagher

John Gallagher — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:08:48 +0000

Holy cow, Daniel, what great timing. I’m just about to look at building a crash reporter into my app before releasing my first Alpha. How strange you should post such a well timed article. Now I have the full info to make my choice.

Thanks!

By: Stuart Morgan

Stuart Morgan — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:53:15 +0000

Dmitry, Breakpad recently added a framework on OS X that abstracts away most of the complexity (on the client side, at least). Adding it to Camino was incredibly simple.

By: Ross Carter

Ross Carter — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:30:09 +0000

I use Uli’s UKCrashReporter in conjunction with Wolf’s JRFeedbackProvide. It works great; I get the reports by email, and the users get a chance to tell me what they were doing just before the crash.

By: Paul Betts

Paul Betts — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:45:04 +0000

*Microsoft* shares their crash reports if you register with them…

By: Dmitry Chestnykh

Dmitry Chestnykh — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:07:04 +0000

Just a note that UKCrashReporter also allows sending general-purpose feedback (orderFrontBugReportWindow: in UKFeedbackProvider class).

Breakpad is also used (and developed) by Google, however it seems very complicated, as it is cross-platform.

By: Jeff Johnson

Jeff Johnson — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:09:17 +0000

Note that you can support Smart Crash Reports without installing it by getting an ID from Unsanity and putting it in your app’s Info.plist. If a user happens to already have Smart Crash Reports installed — and a decent number of users do — you’ll get the crash report without having to ship any code.

That being said, Apple: stop the madness!