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ClarkKent‘A mild-mannered reporter’ library for android

Gaurav LochanLittle Eye Labs

Friday 6 December 13

Problem

Getting info from a production app

Important Events / Logs

Failures (not just crashes)

Latencies

Very useful for debugging issues, understanding app usage, and optimizing for different devices


Related Services

Crash Reporting - Crittercism, Crashlytics, Bugsense

Analytics - Flurry, Google Analytics, Omniture

BaaS: Parse, StackMob, etc

Provide good queries, flexible


Where would you see these?

Critter-cism Parse Flurry New

Relic

Errors Y Y Y N

Events N Y Y N

Latency Y Y N Y


ClarkKentProvides simple abstraction for ‘reportable’ objects:

Event

Failure

Latency

Configure which service to report to

Append key info for each report (deviceID, userID, timestamp, etc)

Optimized: Batch network calls, offline mode


Sample Code


RoadmapClient

Implement different reporters (Crittercism, Parse, Flurry etc)

Implement offline mode

Use Java annotations for reportables

Server

Implement a custom UI on top of Parse - better queries


Logger

Much more lightweight than log4j / slf4j

Wraps around android.util.log. Change log level with runtime flag

Write log to a file, support uploading log

Use varargs to prevent unnecessary string construction


Contact

@gauravl

https://github.com/LittleEyeLabs/Garage/tree/master/android/utils




