The application has stopped unexpectedly: How to Debug?

Question

Please note, unlike many other questions having the subject title \"application has stopped unexpectedly\", I am not asking for troubleshooting a particular problem.

Answer 1

If you use the Logcat display inside the 'debug' perspective in Eclipse the lines are colour-coded. It's pretty easy to find what made your app crash because it's usually in red.

The Java (or Dalvik) virtual machine should never crash, but if your program throws an exception and does not catch it the VM will terminate your program, which is the 'crash' you are seeing.