Android Crash Catcher

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Java
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Created
Jan 23, 2015
Updated
Jan 24, 2015 (Retired)
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Idolon (Idolon-V)
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Idolon (Idolon-V)
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Android Crash Catcher sample project

A sample project to demonstrate how one can catch an unhandled exception in Android and display a custom error dialog, like this:

Unlike other solutions around the web this one doesn't restart the application via System.exit once the exception is caught, but rather uses tricky try-catch block to allow the app survive the exceptions thrown in the UI and background threads.

More details can be found in my SO post:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/28126501/648313

License

This software is licensed under the Apache 2 license, quoted below.

Copyright 2011, 2015 Volodymyr Galandzij (aka Idolon)

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not
use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
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    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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