How to send email when an app crashes on the iphone?

Question

I was using an app the other day that crashed, but as it crashed also asked to send an email with the crash info.

Does anyone know how this is done?

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Answer 1

PLCrashReporter attempts to provide a framework to do exactly this. Not used it myself yet but considering it.

Answer 2

There seems to be this hook available just before the app shuts down:

NSSetUncaughtExceptionHandler()

Sets the top-level error-handling function where you can perform last-minute logging before the program terminates.

Answer 3

You basically wrap your entire application in a try/catch and if you catch an error you can offer to phone home with the details.