Need to handle uncaught exception and send log file

Question

UPDATE: Please see \"accepted\" solution below

When my app creates an unhandled exception, rather than simply terminating, I\'d like to first give t

Answer 1

@PeriHartman's answer works well when the UI thread throws uncaught exception. I made some improvements for when the uncaught exception is thrown by a non UI thread.

public boolean isUIThread(){
    return Looper.getMainLooper().getThread() == Thread.currentThread();
}

public void handleUncaughtException(Thread thread, Throwable e) {
    e.printStackTrace(); // not all Android versions will print the stack trace automatically

    if(isUIThread()) {
        invokeLogActivity();
    }else{  //handle non UI thread throw uncaught exception

        new Handler(Looper.getMainLooper()).post(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                invokeLogActivity();
            }
        });
    }
}

private void invokeLogActivity(){
    Intent intent = new Intent ();
    intent.setAction ("com.mydomain.SEND_LOG"); // see step 5.
    intent.setFlags (Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK); // required when starting from Application
    startActivity (intent);

    System.exit(1); // kill off the crashed app
}