Question

My android aplication tries to connect to a service using

 response = client.execute(getRequest);

However the server might be down and at such times I would like to throw a custom exception with a custom message, rather than the message android provides, saying the application has shut down unexpectedly.

Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

I solved this problem using ACRA

http://code.google.com/p/acra/wiki/BasicSetup

http://code.google.com/p/acra/wiki/AdvancedUsage

You can overwrite the default crash report and display a custom toast instead using

@ReportsCrashes(formKey="dGVacG0ydVHnaNHjRjVTUTEtb3FPWGc6MQ",
            mode = ReportingInteractionMode.TOAST,
            forceCloseDialogAfterToast = false, // optional, default false
            resToastText = R.string.crash_toast_text)