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Backends
Using Google Forms as an ACRA backend has been a nice free solution when starting android development. Though, Google asked us to stop using this solution and it won't be supported in future releases.
You can read more details on this topic here.
Selecting your backend for collecting ACRA reports may be the most difficult task. Here is a review of various solutions by Antoine Bouthors
Acralyzer is the new open source backend created by the author of ACRA.
Its main advantages:
- Can be hosted for free on Cloudant, IrisCouch or Couchappy (reasonable
pricing plan based on your usage of both services, you'll most likely stay in the free zone)
Note: if the backend is hosted on cloudant and facing Host returned error code 400 issue while posting report. Refer to the solution in the following link. Host returned error code 400 - Based on a full open source stack, it can also be hosted on your own servers with the only requirement of installing CouchDB. Your data is yours.
- Guarantees to display ALL possible data collected by ACRA.
Being an open source project, ACRA welcomes all initiatives to integrate its reports in any other backend/analysis tool.
Here is a list of solutions we are aware of.
Their UI is often more polished than Acralyzer and they can provide some more handy features or integration with other bug tracking / project management tools.
- Bugsense - Android, iOS, AppEngine and Windows Phone bug analysis platform
- Zubhium - platform dedicated to Android applications beta distribution, crash analytics and users support.
- Sentry also released an ACRA Sender
- Hockeyapp OSX, iOS and Android beta distribution platform and crash reports collection. There is a more complete sender contributed by Antoine Bouthors
- Bugify - commercial PHP bug and issue tracker published an ACRA sender
- LogEntries, log management service you can eventually use to collect crash reports.
We did not test any of the following backends. Some are in early development stage. Support is provided by their respective developers.
- acra-reporter - java AppEngine backend by Matthew Winters.
- sdimmick's android crash reports - python AppEngine backend
- BrokenOpenApp, a multi-project and user Symfony2 app with ProGuard support seeks testers
- The Simplest PHP ACRA backend - 10 lines of code to just write each received report to a single file.
- ACRAViz Open-source, Silex/Doctrine powered backend for visualizing crash reports from ACRA library for Android.
- Medialoha are developing their own opensource backendn MAB-LAB. Source will be available on GitHub soon.
- Marvinlabs are developing their own opensource backend, acra-server a demo server is available to let you discover its features.
- CrashReportsViewer opensource PHP backend by Benoit Duffez
- Crash Report Dashboard open source PHP backend for ACRA by Arvid Gerstmann.
- X2ON's Android ACRA Server + sender by Felix Schulze / X2ON
- ACRA Mailer forwards reports to an email address in a nicely formatted email. Allows to receive reports by mail without going through an intent (and user action to send the mail)
- TBSFactory ACRA Server
- pacralyzer
- acra php server
- ACRA PHP Mailer simple JSON report receiver which forwards the crash report to an email address
- The simplest PHP SQL backend a simple backend with SQL compability. No installation.
- Acracadabra forwards reports to an email address. Allows to receive reports by mail without going through an intent (and user action to send the mail)
- Johnny Crash
- ACRA Web.py
- Django ACRA Ready To Go Helper! Django Model, View and Admin Panel for ACRA.
- node acra reporter provided by Gavin Mogan who is also contributing to Acralyzer.
- acra node server