How to crash an Android app programmatically?

Question

I want to test out crash report using acra but the first step is I need to simulate a fatal crash in Android using code.

Any idea?

Answer 1

A very simple approach... and is very important to understand that why it happened.

Try initiating a variable in onCreate() before the setContentView() method, then use it to call a method or variable or try registering it to some listener..

Eg:

Button b;

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        b = (Button)findViewById(R.id.butt);
        b.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View arg0) {


        }
    });
        setContentView(R.layout.main);


    }

This crashed, because before setContentView() none of the components/view in the main.xml layout got their ids.