set up ACRA/acralyzer for debugging about flowcrypt-android HOT 13 CLOSED

I had to set up a custom ACRA backend because Acralyzer is very finicky, it would not install, CouchDB keeps timing out and giving errors, then when finally installed it was not done properly, etc.. not good.

It will be accepting data in JSON format, see https://github.com/ACRA/acra/wiki/Report-Destinations#data-encoding-formjson

The reporting url is https://api.cryptup.io/help/acra - will be deployed in 15 minutes

from flowcrypt-android.

the backend is now sending emails when it receives a report

the email subject will have a hash of the stack trace, so same errors should group together in email conversation.

from flowcrypt-android.

I agree. I'd love to use Crashlytics, but I have to double check the privacy implications. It would suck if people's private information was leaking due to crashes reported on Crashalytics.

I think I remember it giving you a lot of variables involved in the crash, hypothetically, some of it may contain text that is supposed to be encrypted later. If it can be set up to no leak these things, it'll be great to use it. Otherwise we may need to look elsewhere.

In JavaScript I do my own crash reporting. It's not as pretty as Crashlytics but it covers the basics.

I'll research this.

from flowcrypt-android.

Now that I'm looking at it, I will very happily set up https://github.com/ACRA/acralyzer on our backend for production use. Then we have 100% control over the data, and adjust it so that we never receive or store anything truly sensitive.

from flowcrypt-android.

Ok, no problem. ACRA is a good solution too.

from flowcrypt-android.

This will be the last issue I've moved to version 9, so that we can finally release a new version :)

from flowcrypt-android.

Is this enabled for production builds as well? I have built & signed the app and sent it to someone and it has crashed on them a few times, but I didn't receive any reports from ACRA.

from flowcrypt-android.

Is this enabled for production builds as well?

No, it's not. I will do it now.

from flowcrypt-android.

kk great

from flowcrypt-android.

I crashed the debug app with this code:

    public void crashTheApp() {
        this.crashTheApp();
    }

    public PgpDecrypted crypto_message_decrypt(String data, String password) {
        // db,account_email,encrypted_data,one_time_message_password,callback,force_output_format
        Long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
        V8Array params = new V8Array(v8).push(NULL).push("").push(data).push(password).push
                (cb_catcher).push(NULL);
        this.call(void.class, new String[]{"crypto", "message", "decrypt"}, params);
        Long end = System.currentTimeMillis();
        System.out.println("duration decrypt: " + (end - start));
        this.crashTheApp();
        return new PgpDecrypted((V8Object) cb_last_value[0]);
    }

App crashed, Gmail opened, and I don't see report in backend.

I will test the production build too.

from flowcrypt-android.

Tested this on production as well. The gmail app shows.

The intended behavior is:

• when app crashes, ACRA should send report to our backend
• no email app should come up
• user should not be prompted. Since these are Alpha releases, we should know about every crash
• it should not be sent by email, only to our backend

Here is a screen shot after the crash of production build:

from flowcrypt-android.

this is a functioning curl request

The JSON payload can be anything - backend will just save it.

curl -X POST \
  https://api.cryptup.io/help/acra \
  -H 'cache-control: no-cache' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "something": "blahblah", 
    "something_else": "blah"
}'

Also Java example:

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();

MediaType mediaType = MediaType.parse("application/json");
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(mediaType, "{\n    \"something\": \"blahblah\", \n    \"something_else\": \"blah\"\n}");
Request request = new Request.Builder()
  .url("https://api.cryptup.io/help/acra")
  .post(body)
  .addHeader("content-type", "application/json")
  .addHeader("cache-control", "no-cache")
  .build();

Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

from flowcrypt-android.

7764b9f

from flowcrypt-android.