Android exception handling best practice?

Question

If my app crashes, it hangs for a couple of seconds before I\'m told by Android that the app crashed and needs to close. So I was thinking of catching all exceptions in my a

Answer 1

You could just use a generic alert dialog to quickly display error messages. For example...

//******************************************
//some generic method
//******************************************
private void doStuff()
{       
    try
    {
        //do some stuff here
    }
    catch(Exception e)
    {
        messageBox("doStuff", e.getMessage());
    }
}


//*********************************************************
//generic dialog, takes in the method name and error message
//*********************************************************
private void messageBox(String method, String message)
{
    Log.d("EXCEPTION: " + method,  message);

    AlertDialog.Builder messageBox = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
    messageBox.setTitle(method);
    messageBox.setMessage(message);
    messageBox.setCancelable(false);
    messageBox.setNeutralButton("OK", null);
    messageBox.show();
}

You could also add other error handling options into this method, such as print stacktrace