I feel a little bit silly asking this, but I haven’t been able to find any answers on my own. My Force Close dialog has a “Report” button. I think it’s a great idea, and I wish everyone had it. At first, I thought it must be something I turned on without realizing it, but not only can’t I find any setting that I might have touched, I also can’t find any reference to this button existing on the Internet. I have a Droid, and I know 4 other people with Droids, and they say they don’t have the option to report Force Closes. Am I special? Am I just missing something? The “report” button has been there for at least a few weeks now.
When I use the Report button, I get a screen with a “feedback” field and a checkbox for “Include system data”. Below that , it says “Information from feedback reports will be shown to the developer of the application.” Under that are Preview and Send buttons.
As a developer, I’ve never received one of these reports.
I’d try to send a report to myself, but it seemingly only shows the button for apps installed from the market, and I don’t know of a way to crash my production app.
I suppose I could publish a simple crashing app just to try it out, but I thought I’d ask you folks first.
Edit:
You can view screenshots here: http://bentobin.com/crashReportImages/
This is a new feature of Android 🙂