Bug and Crash Reporting SDK for Android
Instabug's SDK collects all the details you need to debug and
fix your Android apps faster!
Comprehensive Android Bug Reports
Spend your time creating and not debugging
Debugging and trying to reproduce bugs in Android usually takes a lot more time than fixing it. Weâre doing the heavy-lifting for you by getting all the details that you need to know why the bug happened and how to reproduce it, so you can easily fix it.
Fix server-related bugs faster
Whenever a bug occurs because of server issues, you will know exactly what happened with network requests and responses till the moment the bug was reported to be able to identify what needs to be fixed.
Get all the steps to reproduce Android bugs
Instabug will automatically track everything that the user did before ending up with a bug in your Android application. Whether itâs application events or touch events, weâll be logging this into the bug report that you get.
Android Light Weight Crash Reporter
Know exactly why your Android app Is crashing
Whenever your Android application crashes, Instabug will capture a detailed report of the running environment, full de-obfuscated stack trace for each exception, the different threadsâ states, the steps to reproduce the crash, and the network request logs. All this data is grabbed automatically with no need for breadcrumbs.
Understand the impact of crashes
Instead of viewing thousands of crashes one by one, you can view them aggregated into charts to help you get an overview on your Android app performance. You will get to see which crashes happen most and which affect the most users so that you can prioritize your work.
Steps to Get Started
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The SDK is available through Maven Central. In your build.gradle file, add the following dependency, then sync your gradle files.
compile 'com.instabug.library:instabug:8.0.3' -
Initialize Instabug in your applicationâs onCreate() method:
new Instabug.Builder(this, "YOUR-TOKEN-HERE") .setInvocationEvents(InstabugInvocationEvent.SHAKE, InstabugInvocationEvent.SCREENSHOT_GESTURE) .build();
You can also check out our API Reference for more detailed information about our SDK.
Frequently Asked Questions
The SDK doesn't capture user steps, any way to fix that?
You need to add send the touch events to Instabug in each Activity like this:
@Override
public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
InstabugTrackingDelegate.
notifyActivityGotTouchEvent(ev,this);
return super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev);
}Why instabug require the record audio permission?
Instabug require the record audio permission to allow the users to add voice attachments. However, If you want to exclude this permission from your app you can add this line to your AndroidManifest.xml file:
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO" tools:node="remove"/>Is the shake gesture customizable?
The SDK offers other gestures out of the box to choose from; Shake, two finger swipe and a floating button. You can also code your own gesture or have a button in your app that invokes our SDK. Check our documentation page for more details.
What kind of details does the SDK track?
The SDK grabs a lot of useful details: Device model, OS version, memory & storage details, carrier & WiFi, battery details, app version, user location, and the app's logs. And most importantly, the detailed actions that the user did until the time of reporting the bug.
Does Instabug interfere with other crash reporting tools?
Whether you enable Instabug crash reporting or not, the SDK wouldn't interfere with any other crash reporting tool. If you have 2 crash reporting tools, make sure you initialize Instabug last, to receive crash reports on both tools.
Iâm using setFileAttachment() to add extra attachment to the report but it doesnât appear on the dashboard, what is wrong?
The attachment files should not be more than 1 MB or it wonât be sent to the server.
As soon as we integrated the SDK and saw our first bug report we knew that weâd made the right choice. It was just so easy and seamless! Now we have instant feedback from our users, which is greatly accelerating product development.
Mobile App PM at Yahoo
Instabug makes it easier for our beta testers to quickly send feedback directly from within the app, helping us identify and fix critical issues in an easy-to-use testing environment. We also love that their customer service team is quick to respond to our requests.
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Director of Mobile Engineering at SoundCloud
The easy shake-for-feedback has meant that all our dogfooders feel comfortable filing bugs. And best of all with screenshots, annotations, and descriptions the bug reports that we're getting are consistently high quality and actionable.
PM at Nextdoor
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Android Engineer at Scribd
We noticed that our app had a bug and 80% of complaints went to Instabug instead of an appstore review! Instabug solved that problem with a single line of code.
CEO at Snips
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PM at Disqus
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Software Engineer at Tilt
Instabug is a great tool for users to post feedback and for us developers to gather essential bug information. I also use webhook to integrate Instabug with the other tools we are using like Phabricator and Slack.
For us Instabug is essential, we use it to manage support tickets by having all our team members there to collaborate on fixing bugs.
CTO at Loungbuddy
We recommend using a tool like Instabug from the get-go to save time wasted on trying to decipher customersâ issues and their feedback.
DIS Corp Development Team Lead
Of all the options on the market, Instabug seems to best combine everything we expected from a bug reporting tool. If we had to choose one thing we couldnât live without though, it would be Instabug logs. Sometimes we just send ourselves bug reports even during development because itâs just easier that way.
O2 Smart Boxâs Cloud and Mobile Development Lead
The Instabug integration provides excellent insights to the QA team and the ability to handle and control the bug reports and feedback to understand how our app is doing.
LifeSumâs QA Tester
It makes it easier for us to handle the fact that we canât have someone full time running a beta program. Instabug automates some of the feedback collecting for us.
Envoyâs Head of Product and Design
We compared Instabug with competitors and we found that Instabug has the advantage because of the level of documentation, the quality of the SDK, and the level of service in terms of support. All of our developers will tell you exactly the same answer.
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We werenât looking for a solution, but as soon as we saw Instabug, we were like, âOh yeah! Thatâll make our lives so much easier.â So it was a problem we didnât realize we had.
Prolific Interactiveâs Director of Product Development
Instabugâs SDK offers a really simple flow for our users. Two steps and they can report and send us feedback and they feel like theyâre communicating with us.
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