What is the difference between ANR and crash in Android?

Question

I have searched on the internet regarding what an ANR is. And I studied those references as well. But I don\'t get details regarding a crash in Android.

Can someone

Answer 1

ANR also caused by-

1. No response to an input event (such as key press or screen touch events) within 5 seconds.
2. A BroadcastReceiver hasn't finished executing within 10 seconds.

Answer 2

ANR for ex: if You are downloading huge amount data in ui thread, meny other possibilities like insufficient memory etc it will come.. probably it leads to crashes in android , We can't say both are same one follows other

Answer 3

ANR stands for Application Not Responding and its occurs when long operation takes place into Main thread......

Crash are due to exception and error like Nullpoint,

Answer 4

This is good article at developer portal. It gives clarity in detail about ANR. https://developer.android.com/training/articles/perf-anr.html

Answer 5

ANR (Application Not Responding )is due to handling long running task in Main Thread(UI thread).If the main thread is stopped for more than 5 sec you get ANR.

Crash are due to exception and error like Nullpoint,classNotfound, typecast ,parse error etc. ANR also causes crash of application.

Note: Never run long running task on UI thread

Reference ANR

Answer 6

ANR stands for Application Not Responding, which means that your app does not register events on the UI Thread anymore because a long running operation is executed there