Assuming I didn’t start in debug mode, is there a way to make the eclipse debugger automatically start if my app throws an exception inside the emulator?
Alternatively, is there a way to get a more useful error message out of the emulator (something more useful than “Sorry, your app terminated unexpectedly”).
I don’t know how to trigger the debugger, but did you look at the stack trace when the error occurred, either in Eclipse DDMS (if it was already running) or using the “adb logcat” command?
https://developer.android.com/studio/debug/index.html