Android Application Error Reporting

Original author: Tim Bray
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This is a translation of the article Android Application Error Reports

In the new Android 2.2 (“Froyo”), a function for sending error messages for Market apps, the so-called bug reports, has appeared. Reports will be available when the Android Market publisher logs into your account.

When the application freezes or stops responding, the user can send an error report to the developer by clicking on the button (located on the right). A new button will appear in the Application Error dialog box, if the user clicks on it, the Google Feedback client will analyze the information and compile a bug report with the information needed to diagnose this problem. The application developer will not receive information that can identify the user. The user can also view all the information that will be sent.
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Users can also send additional information, logs, etc. Because there is a chance that they may contain confidential information, the logs will not be transferred to the developer, they will be used by Google to track errors in Android itself.
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Developers will receive tools for diagnosing, sorting and fixing errors in their applications. Popular applications can generate hundreds of thousands of reports. Google Feedback aggregates them into "bugs" - individual programming errors. Errors will be displayed for developers sorted.

Clicking on an error displays information such as stack traces, information about the equipment on which the error occurred, and which version of the application the user used.
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Google is constantly working to improve and expand the feedback functions provided to developers to improve the quality of their applications.

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