Crash Reporter for Cocoa app [closed]

Answer 1

I've had a lot of success with UKCrashReporter. The code is straighforward and easy to modify to match the L&F of your app.

PLCrashReporter looks interesting, though.

I'd stay away from Smart Crash Reporter just because many users (rightfully) don't appreciate your app injecting code into unexpected places and it strikes me as a fragile (perhaps dangerous to use in a released app) approach.

Answer 2

Another option is Google's Breakpad. It has a Cocoa framework wrapper, and is compatible with Mozilla's Socorro server. It's used by Firefox, and the Cocoa framework is used in the current betas of Camino. The client-side integration is pretty easy, but I've never looked at what it takes to run an instance of the Socorro server.

Answer 3

Others have answered the question well and pointed to some good example code.

Coding it yourself is fairly simple. The strategy generally is:

• catch appropriate signals
• launch a separate crash reporter app that lives inside your application's bundle
• the crash reporter app then finds the latest crash log entry for your app and sends it to you via whatever method you desire (POST, email, etc)

Answer 4

I've also rolled my own: SFBCrashReporter

There is a small post on my blog about it.

Answer 5

I would shy away from Smart Crash Reporter for the single reason that it has a bad taste for a lot of users, and is a good way to get bad press for your app (deserved or not) PLCrashReporter or UKCrashReporter http://zathras.de/angelweb/sourcecode.htm they will give some ideas about what to do and how to do it in ways that don't inject into other code space.

Answer 6

I'm using ILCrashReporter and it works really nicely. The method is email based so it works well with Fogbugz.